Howard Rollins

Howard Rollins

Nacimiento : 1950-10-17, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

Muerte : 1996-12-08

Historia

Howard Rollins (1950–1996) 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.

Perfil

Howard Rollins

Películas

Drunks
Joseph
At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first time in seven months, so he does - and leaves the meeting right after. As Jim wanders the night, searching for some solace in his old stomping grounds, bars and parks where he bought drugs, the meeting goes on, and we hear the stories of survivors and addicts - some, like Louis, who claim to have wandered in looking for choir practice, who don't call themselves alcoholic, and others, like Joseph, whose drinking almost caused the death of his child - as they talk about their lives at the meeting
With Murder in Mind
Samuel Carver
A real estate agent is shot while trying to sell a rural farm and tries to bring the shooter to justice.
Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
T.C. Russell
A police officer is called by F.B.I. to infiltrate into gang of arms smugglers.
The Children of Times Square
Otis Travis
An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug dealers and pickpockets for a shady crime boss.
He's Fired, She's Hired
Raoul
Advertising executive, Alex Grier, is fired and is unable to find another position, being over-qualified. His wife, Annabelle, with no experience, is hired by the Freddie Fox agency when she uses her husband's résumé to get the job. He remains at home, raising their three children, coaxing his wife while trying to write the "great American novel."
Historia de un soldado
Captain Davenport
En el año 1944, un sargento es asesinado en un camino solitario cerca de la base militar de Louisiana. La presión ejercida por las autoridades y por la opinión pública obliga al ejército a enviar, para que se encargue de la investigación, al capitán Richard Davenport, un abogado negro con un excelente expediente universitario.
The House of Dies Drear
Walter Small
A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Soon they begin to suspect that the ghosts of slaves who passed through there are haunting the house.
A Doctor's Story
Dr. Zack Williams
A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.
La casa de Dios
Chuck Johnston
La Casa de Dios es un hospital donde un grupo de estrafalarios médicos internos residentes en prácticas intentan lidiar con la presión que va asociada a su profesión. Después de que Jo, el jefe de los residentes, sufra una crisis, deciden colocar a los internos bajo la tutela del médico residente más veterano, un curioso personaje conocido con el sobrenombre de Fatman. Aunque fue rodada en 1979, esta comedia negra sobre el día a día del personal médico de un hospital no fue estrenada en salas comerciales hasta que algunos de sus protagonistas ya habían alcanzado una cierta popularidad, como es el caso de Tim Matheson ("Los albóndigas en remojo") o Bess Armstrong ("La gran ruta hacia China"). En papeles secundarios participan también intérpretes como Sandra Bernhard ("El rey de la comedia") o Michael Richards("Seinfeld").
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers
This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Mississippi to direct the regional headquarters of the NAACP. Fighting segregation and racist politics, Evers becomes a leader in the black community.
The Member of the Wedding
Honey Brown
A 1982 made-for-television remake of the 1952 Fred Zinnemann film. Shown as a feature on "NBC Live Theater."
Ragtime
Coalhouse Walker Jr.
Nueva York, 1906. En un barrio residencial de clase media, una familia escucha llantos durante la comida y descubre a un recién nacido de color abandonado en el jardín. A pesar de las objeciones del padre, la madre decide aceptarlo en casa. Por otro lado, el millonario Harry K. Thaw dispara contra el famoso arquitecto Stanford White a causa de una chica, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, desencadenando así el llamado "juicio del siglo".
Thornwell
Carson
The story of James Thornwell, whose accusation that the U.S. Army used mind control drugs on him to force him to confess to stealing secret documents while stationed in Orleans, France, in 1961, led Congress to award him $625,000 in damages nearly 20 years later.
My Old Man
Doctor
An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a horse to salvage their relationship. When Frank is hurt prior to the opening race, Jo must go it alone.
The Trial of the Moke
James Smith
Henry Flipper is the first black West Point graduate. Assigned to serve at Fort Davis in Texas, Flipper becomes the object of a conspiracy by his fellow cadets to rid the base of its only black graduate.