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Howard Ellsworth Rollins Jr. (October 17, 1950 – December 8, 1996) was an American stage, film, and television actor.
Dec 10, 1996 · NEW YORK -- Howard Rollins, 46, the actor who starred for five seasons in the TV series "In the Heat of the Night" and who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in "Ragtime," died Dec. 8 at a...
Rollins earned an Oscar nomination for the role of Coalhouse Walker Jr. in Ragtime (1981) and an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor on the NBC daytime drama Another World (1964). He is also known for his brilliant portrayal of Virgil Tibbs on the long running hit TV series In the Heat of the Night (1988) , based on the 1967 movie of the ...
- January 1, 1
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- January 1, 1
- New York City, New York, USA
The actor Howard E. Rollins Jnr made his film debut in Milos Forman's Ragtime (1981) as Coalhouse Walker, the cool, sophisticated ragtime pianist who becomes head of a group of...
Actor: Ragtime. Howard E. Rollins Jr. was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1950. He was the youngest of four children born to Howard E. Rollins Sr. (steelworker) and Ruth R. Rollins (domestic worker). Rollins graduated from Towson State College, where he studied theater.
- October 17, 1950
- December 8, 1996
Dec 11, 1996 · Howard Rollins, an Oscar-nominated actor with roles in such movies as ``Ragtime'' and ``A Soldier's Story'' and the TV series ``In the Heat of the Night,'' died at age 46. Rollins died Sunday afternoon at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital.
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Dec 10, 1996 · Howard Rollins, an actor who was nominated for an Academy Award in 1981 for his work in the film ''Ragtime'' and was written out of the hit television series ''In the Heat of the Night'' in...
