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: 4
  • 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 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...

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  • 1984
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    A Soldier's Story

    A Soldier's Story

    6.769 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...

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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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  • 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.

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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...

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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".

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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...

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  • 1979
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    My Old Man

    My Old Man

    3 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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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  • 1986
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    The Boy King

    The Boy King

    1 1986 HD

    Focuses on young Martin Luther King Jr.'s early encounters with prejudice and how the love and courage of his family moved him to speak out against...

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  • 1996
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    Harambee!

    Harambee!

    1 1996 HD

    During a Kwanzaa celebration, a recovering drug addict who now counsels drug users inspires the residents of a Brooklyn housing project to apply the...

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  • 1990
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    On the Block

    On the Block

    1 1990 HD

    A stripper and a vice squad lieutenant become romantically involved in this contemporary drama set in the adult entertainment zone in 1980s...

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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'.

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  • 1988
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    In the Heat of the Night

    In the Heat of the Night

    7.5 1988 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...

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  • 1978
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    King

    King

    6.556 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...

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  • 1994
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    New York Undercover

    New York Undercover

    7.156 1994 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...

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  • 1964
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    Another World

    Another World

    5.2 1964 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...

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  • 1980
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    Fridays

    Fridays

    5 1980 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.

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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,...

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  • 1979
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    Roots: The Next Generations

    Roots: The Next Generations

    7.3 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...

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