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Howard Rollins
American stage, film and television actor (1950-1996) · United States · On the map · Actors · Died at 46
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...
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Something wrong?A life in dates
Remember WENNSeries, 1996George Smith
Harambee!Film, 1996Chimbuko1994
New York UndercoverSeries, Reverend Hundley
The Legacy of MalthusFilm, 19941992
With Murder in MindFilm, Samuel Carver1990
On the BlockFilm, Clay Beasley1989NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama SeriesAward1988
En el calor de la nocheSeries, Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs
In the Heat of the NightSeries, 1988Virgil Tibbs1986
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBIFilm, T.C. Russell1985
WildsideSeries1984
A Doctor's StoryFilm, Dr. Zack Williams1983NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama SeriesAward
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar EversFilm, 1983Medgar Evers1982
American PlayhouseSeries, Medgar Evers
The Member of the WeddingFilm, 1982Honey Brown1981
Chytilová Versus FormanFilm
RagtimeFilm, 1981Coalhouse Walker Jr.1980
FridaysSeries1979
Roots: The Next GenerationsSeries, George Haley
My Old ManFilm, 1979Doctor1978
KingSeries, Andrew Young
The Trial of the MokeFilm, 1978James Smith1964
Another WorldSeries1950Born17 October 1950People around Howard
Close ties
Michael Schultz Directed For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983)
Sidney Poitier Duets: Virgil Tibbs
Miloš Forman Directed Ragtime (1981)
Norman Jewison Directed A Soldier's Story (1984)
Dino De Laurentiis Produced Ragtime (1981)
Irene Cara Also in For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983)
Margaret Avery Also in For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983)
Richard C. Sarafian Directed Well known secret
William Smith Also in Wildside and Well known secret
David Margulies Also in My Old Man and A Doctor's Story
Moses Gunn Also in Ragtime and The House of Dies Drear- J. Eddie Peck Also in Wildside and Well known secret
Myrlie Evers-Williams Wrote For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983)
William Allen Young Also in A Soldier's Story (1984)- Jess Osuna Also in My Old Man and A Doctor's Story
Also in Deutsch
Filmography 22
32 credits on file
Television 10
Awards
About this person
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).
