Howard Rollins
American stage, film and television actor (1950-1996)
- Fame54.6
- Momentum0.3
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Updated 2026-08-05
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).
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- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series
- NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series
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- Howard RollinsLow confidencewikipedia · af.wikipedia.org
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