# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-rollins
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:00:20.896Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-rollins"
name: "Howard Rollins"
slug: "howard-rollins"
description: "Howard Ellsworth Rollins Jr. was an American stage, film and television actor. He was best known for his role as Andrew Young in 1978's King, George Haley in the 1979 miniseries Roots: The Next Generations, Coalhouse Walker Jr. in the 1981 film Ragtime, as civil rights activist Medgar Evers in PBS' American Playhouse production of For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story in 1983, Captain Davenport in the 1984 film A Soldier's Story, and as Virgil Tibbs on the NBC/CBS television crime drama In the Heat of the Night (1988–1995)."
tagline: "American stage, film and television actor (1950-1996)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ad/Howardrollinspiano.jpg/330px-Howardrollinspiano.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1950-10-17"
deathDate: "1996-12-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.58
  momentum:             0.2756267226670167
  historical:           17.645532
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0738415/"
    handle:    "nm0738415"
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "Howard Rollins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Rollins"
    title: "Howard Rollins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Rollins"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "하워드 E. 롤린스 주니어"
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    title: "Howard Rollins"
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    title: "Howard E. Rollins Jr."
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    title: "Howard Rollins"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Роллинз, Говард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump