Howard Rollins
Birthday: 1950-10-17
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Biography: Howard Rollins (October 17, 1950 – December 8, 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.
Movies
Ragtime
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the ra...
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A Soldier's Story
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local ...
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The Legacy of Malthus
Discusses Malthus's theories of population and the causes of poverty. As film contrasts the 19th cen...
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The Neighborhood
A neighborhood in Brooklyn reacts to the first black families moving into the community....
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Drunks
At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His spo...
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Remembering Ragtime
Memories from the making of the classic Milos Forman film "Ragtime"....
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The Children of Times Square
An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a ...
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The Member of the Wedding
12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams dreams of going away with her brother and his bride-to-be on their...
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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Miss...
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My Old Man
An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a ho...
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The House of Dies Drear
A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil W...
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The Boy King
Focuses on young Martin Luther King Jr.'s early encounters with prejudice and how the love and coura...
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On the Block
A stripper and a vice squad lieutenant become romantically involved in this contemporary drama set i...
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Harambee!
During a Kwanzaa celebration, a recovering drug addict who now counsels drug users inspires the resi...
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Thornwell
The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to ...
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A Doctor's Story
A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile....
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With Murder in Mind
A real estate agent is shot while trying to sell a rural farm and tries to bring the shooter to just...
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Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
A police officer is called by F.B.I. to infiltrate into gang of arms smugglers....
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He's Fired, She's Hired
Advertising executive, Alex Grier, is fired and is unable to find another position, being over-quali...
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The Trial of the Moke
Henry Flipper is the first black West Point graduate. Assigned to serve at Fort Davis in Texas, Flip...
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The House of God
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'....
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