Howard Rollins

Actor 1964–2004 (40 year career)

6.0 avg rating

Highest Rated

Chytilová Versus Forman

1981 · as Self

8.0

Remember WENN

1996 · as George Smith

7.8

In the Heat of the Night

1988 · as Virgil Tibbs

7.6

Known For

Film

Ragtime

Coalhouse Walker Jr.

Film

A Soldier's Story

Captain Davenport

Film

In the Heat of the Night

Virgil Tibbs

Film

The Children of Times Square

Otis Travis

Film

King

Andrew Young

Film

Another World

5.5 1964

Film

With Murder in Mind

Samuel Carver

Film

A Doctor's Story

Dr. Zack Williams

Filmography

Acting (31)

Movies (22)

Remembering Ragtime

2004

as Coalhouse Walker Jr. (archive footage)

Drunks

1997

as Joseph

3.2

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

6.3

Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI

1986

as T.C. Russell

5.0

The Boy King

1986

as Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.

A Soldier's Story

as Captain Davenport

A Doctor's Story

as Dr. Zack Williams

The House of Dies Drear

1984

as Walter Small

He's Fired, She's Hired

as Raoul

The House of God

as Chuck Johnston

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.

7.0

Thornwell

1981

as Carson

6.0

Chytilová Versus Forman

as Self

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

7.6

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