Howard Rollins

Howard Rollins

Howard Rollins (1950–1996) 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.

  • Title: Howard Rollins
  • Popularity: 13.668
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1950-10-17
  • Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
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  • Also Known As: Howard Rollins Jr., Howard E. Rollins Jr., Howard E. Rollins
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Howard Rollins Movies

  • 1981
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    Ragtime

    Ragtime

    7.007 1981 HD

    A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Brad Dourif

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  • 1984
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    A Soldier's Story

    A Soldier's Story

    6.709 1984 HD

    In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Howard Rollins

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  • 1979
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    My Old Man

    My Old Man

    5 1979 HD

    An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a horse to salvage their relationship. When Frank is...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kristy McNichol

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  • 1997
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    Drunks

    Drunks

    3.3 1997 HD

    At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Richard Lewis

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  • 1986
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    The Children of Times Square

    The Children of Times Square

    6 1986 HD

    An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Howard Rollins

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  • 1982
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    The Member of the Wedding

    The Member of the Wedding

    5 1982 HD

    12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams dreams of going away with her brother and his bride-to-be on their upcoming honeymoon. [Taped live in performance...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Pearl Bailey

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  • 1983
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    For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

    For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

    1 1983 HD

    This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Howard Rollins

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  • 1984
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    The House of Dies Drear

    The House of Dies Drear

    1 1984 HD

    A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle...

    Genre: Fantasy

    Cast: Howard Rollins

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  • 1981
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    Thornwell

    Thornwell

    6 1981 HD

    The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Glynn Turman

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  • 1984
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    A Doctor's Story

    A Doctor's Story

    5 1984 HD

    A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Art Carney

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  • 1992
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    With Murder in Mind

    With Murder in Mind

    4.7 1992 HD

    A real estate agent is shot while trying to sell a rural farm and tries to bring the shooter to justice.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery

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  • 1986
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    Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

    Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

    5 1986 HD

    A police officer is called by F.B.I. to infiltrate into gang of arms smugglers.

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Lynn Whitfield

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  • 1984
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    He's Fired, She's Hired

    He's Fired, She's Hired

    6 1984 HD

    Advertising executive, Alex Grier, is fired and is unable to find another position, being over-qualified. His wife, Annabelle, with no experience, is...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Wayne Rogers

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  • 1978
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    The Trial of the Moke

    The Trial of the Moke

    10 1978 HD

    Henry Flipper is the first black West Point graduate. Assigned to serve at Fort Davis in Texas, Flipper becomes the object of a conspiracy by his...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Franklyn Seales

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  • 1984
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    The House of God

    The House of God

    1.5 1984 HD

    Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Tim Matheson

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  • 1994
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    The Legacy of Malthus

    The Legacy of Malthus

    1 1994 HD

    Discusses Malthus's theories of population and the causes of poverty. As film contrasts the 19th century poor in Scotland with today's poor in India,...

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    Cast: Chota Bai

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  • 1982
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    The Neighborhood

    The Neighborhood

    1 1982 HD

    A neighborhood in Brooklyn reacts to the first black families moving into the community.

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Ron Masak

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  • 2004
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    Remembering Ragtime

    Remembering Ragtime

    1 2004 HD

    Memories from the making of the classic Milos Forman film "Ragtime".

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Miloš Forman

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  • 1999
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    Another World

    Another World

    5 1999 HD

    Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC for 35 years from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. Set in the fictional town of Bay...

    Genre: Soap

    Cast: David Hedison

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  • 1995
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    In the Heat of the Night

    In the Heat of the Night

    7.426 1995 HD

    In the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name starring Carroll O'Connor as the...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Carroll O'Connor

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  • 1999
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    New York Undercover

    New York Undercover

    7.397 1999 HD

    New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Malik Yoba

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  • 1982
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    Fridays

    Fridays

    5 1982 HD

    Fridays is the name of ABC's weekly late-night live comedy show, which aired on Friday nights from April 11, 1980 to April 23, 1982.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Larry David

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  • 1985
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    Wildside

    Wildside

    5.7 1985 HD

    Wildside is an American series aired by ABC from March to April 1985. The series stars William Smith, J. Eddie Peck, Howard Rollins, William Smith,...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: John D'Aquino

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  • 1978
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    King

    King

    6.4 1978 HD

    The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister in the South of the 1950s until his assassination in...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Paul Winfield

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  • 1979
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    Roots: The Next Generations

    Roots: The Next Generations

    7.4 1979 HD

    Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Georg Stanford Brown

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