Howard Rollins
Acting
Howard Rollins (October 17, 1950 – December 8, 1996) was an American television, film, and stage actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Coalhouse Walker Jr. in Ragtime and Virgil Tibbs on In the Heat of the Night.
Remembering Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)
Drunks
Joseph
Harambee!
Chimbuko
The Legacy of Malthus
Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)
With Murder in Mind
Samuel Carver
On the Block
Clay Beasley
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
T.C. Russell
The Children of Times Square
Otis Travis
The Boy King
Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.
He's Fired, She's Hired
Raoul
A Soldier's Story
Captain Davenport
The House of Dies Drear
Walter Small
A Doctor's Story
Dr. Zack Williams
The House of God
Chuck Johnston
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers
The Member of the Wedding
Honey Brown
The Neighborhood
Allen Campbell
Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Thornwell
Carson
My Old Man
Doctor
The Trial of the Moke
James Smith