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Howard Rollins

Acting

Born October 17, 1950 · Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

Died December 8, 1996

Also known as Howard Rollins Jr. · Howard E. Rollins Jr. · Howard E. Rollins

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Biography

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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Awards & recognition

  • NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series · 1989
  • NAACP Image Award — Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series · 1983
  • Academy Award — Best Supporting Actor · 1982 · nominated

Filmography12 titles

The House of Dies Drear

1984as Walter Small

Remember WENN

1996as George Smith

In the Heat of the Night

1988as Virgil Tibbs

Roots: The Next Generations

1979as George Haley

New York Undercover

1994as Reverend Hundley

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

1983as Medgar Evers

Ragtime

1981as Coalhouse Walker Jr.

A Soldier's Story

1984as Captain Davenport

King

1978as Andrew Young

The Children of Times Square

1986as Otis Travis

Fridays

1980as Self

My Old Man

1979as Doctor