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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.53 |
| Birthday | 1950-10-17 |
| Place of Birth | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Also Known As | Howard Rollins Jr., Howard E. Rollins Jr., Howard E. Rollins, |
1981
Ragtime
7/153
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nos...
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Ragtime
1984
A Soldier's Story
6.7/176
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also...
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A Soldier's Story
1979
My Old Man
5/1
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 h...
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My Old Man
1997
Drunks
3.3/6
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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Drunks
1986
The Children of Times Square
6/12
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 deale...
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The Children of Times Square
1982
The Member of the Wedding
5/1
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 at...
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The Member of the Wedding
1983
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
0/0
This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the...
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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1984
The House of Dies Drear
0/0
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 run...
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The House of Dies Drear
1981
Thornwell
6/2
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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Thornwell
1984
A Doctor's Story
5/1
A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.
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A Doctor's Story
1992
With Murder in Mind
4.7/3
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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With Murder in Mind
1986
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
5/1
A police officer is called by F.B.I. to infiltrate into gang of arms smugglers.
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Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
1984
He's Fired, She's Hired
6/1
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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He's Fired, She's Hired
1978
The Trial of the Moke
10/1
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 fell...
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The Trial of the Moke
1984
The House of God
1.5/2
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.
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The House of God
1994
The Legacy of Malthus
0/0
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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The Legacy of Malthus
1982
The Neighborhood
0/0
A neighborhood in Brooklyn reacts to the first black families moving into the community.
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The Neighborhood
2004
Remembering Ragtime
0/0
Memories from the making of the classic Milos Forman film "Ragtime".
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Remembering Ragtime
1986
The Boy King
0/0
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 se...
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The Boy King
1990
On the Block
1/1
A stripper and a vice squad lieutenant become romantically involved in this contemporary drama set in the adult entertainment zone in 1980s Baltimore,...
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On the Block
1996
Harambee!
0/0
During a Kwanzaa celebration, a recovering drug addict who now counsels drug users inspires the residents of a Brooklyn housing project to apply the p...
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