Howard Rollins

Actor 1964–2004 (40 year career)

5.6 avg rating

Highest Rated

Remember WENN

1996 · as George Smith

8.0

In the Heat of the Night

1988 · as Virgil Tibbs

7.5

In the Heat of the Night

1988 · as Virgil Tibbs

7.5

Known For

Film

Ragtime

Coalhouse Walker Jr.

Film

A Soldier's Story

Captain Davenport

Film

In the Heat of the Night

Virgil Tibbs

Film

King

Andrew Young

Film

The Children of Times Square

Otis Travis

Film

Another World

5.2 1964

Film

With Murder in Mind

Samuel Carver

Film

Wildside

5.7 1985

Filmography

Acting (30)

Movies (21)

Remembering Ragtime

2004

as Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)

Drunks

1997

as Joseph

2.7

Harambee!

1996

as Chimbuko

The Legacy of Malthus

1994

as Self (Population Institute, 1993) (archive footage)

With Murder in Mind

as Samuel Carver

On the Block

as Clay Beasley

The Children of Times Square

1986

as Otis Travis

6.0

The Boy King

1986

as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.

Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

as T.C. Russell

A Soldier's Story

as Captain Davenport

He's Fired, She's Hired

1984

as Raoul

6.0

The House of Dies Drear

1984

as Walter Small

The House of God

as Chuck Johnston

A Doctor's Story

as Dr. Zack Williams

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

1983

as Medgar Evers

The Member of the Wedding

as Honey Brown

The Neighborhood

as Allen Campbell

Ragtime

as Coalhouse Walker Jr.

Thornwell

as Carson

My Old Man

as Doctor

The Trial of the Moke

1978

as James Smith

5.5

Television (9)

Remember WENN

as George Smith

New York Undercover

as Reverend Hundley

In the Heat of the Night

1988

as Virgil Tibbs

7.5

In the Heat of the Night

as Virgil Tibbs

Wildside

Fridays

as Self

Roots: The Next Generations

as George Haley

King

as Andrew Young

Another World