Howard Rollins

★ Acting #28,751

1950 - 1996 (age 46) • Acting

Born: 10/17/1950 in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

Died: 12/8/1996 (age 46)

Known for: Acting

Howard Rollins

★ Acting #28,751

Howard Rollins (October 17, 1950 – December 8, 1996) was an American television, film, and stage actor.

Known For

A Soldier's Story

68%

Captain Davenport

1984

In the Heat of the Night

75%

Virgil Tibbs

1988

New York Undercover

73%

Reverend Hundley

1994

Roots: The Next Generations

75%

George Haley

1979

The Children of Times Square

63%

Otis Travis

1986

King

66%

Andrew Young

1978

Another World

55%

Unknown

1964

Fridays

60%

Self

1980

Remembering Ragtime

Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)

2004

Drunks

32%

Joseph

1997

Harambee!

70%

Chimbuko

1996

Remember WENN

78%

George Smith

1996

New York Undercover

73%

Reverend Hundley

1994

The Legacy of Malthus

90%

Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)

1994

With Murder in Mind

62%

Samuel Carver

1992

On the Block

28%

Clay Beasley

1990

In the Heat of the Night

75%

Virgil Tibbs

1988

Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

65%

T.C. Russell

1986

The Children of Times Square

63%

Otis Travis

1986

The Boy King

70%

Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.

1986

Wildside

68%

Unknown

1985

He's Fired, She's Hired

65%

Raoul

1984

A Soldier's Story

68%

Captain Davenport

1984

The House of Dies Drear

80%

Walter Small

1984

A Doctor's Story

67%

Dr. Zack Williams

1984

The House of God

32%

Chuck Johnston

1984

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

70%

Medgar Evers

1983

The Member of the Wedding

50%

Honey Brown

1982

The Neighborhood

70%

Allen Campbell

1982

Ragtime

70%

Coalhouse Walker Jr.

1981

Thornwell

73%

Carson

1981

Chytilová Versus Forman

80%

Self

1981

Fridays

60%

Self

1980

My Old Man

53%

Doctor

1979

Roots: The Next Generations

75%

George Haley

1979

The Trial of the Moke

60%

James Smith

1978