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Howard Rollins

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Mostly Credited As:	Howard Rollins
Sometimes Credited As:	Howard E. Rollins Jr. Howard Rollins Jr Howard E. Rollins
Birth Name:	Howard Ellsworth Rollins, Jr.
Date Of Birth:	October 17, 1950 (Age 46)
Country Of Birth:	USA
Birth Place:	Baltimore, Maryland
Date Of Death:	December 08, 1996
Cause Of Death:	Lymphoma (New York, NY)

Howard Rollins was born in Baltimore, Md, October 17, 1952, and started acting at Towson State College. He left after two years to work at the Baltimore public TV station. In 1974, he went to New York and appeared on Broadway. "Medal of Honor Rag" brought him acclaim and movie roles. He had a 1981 Oscar nomination for "Ragtime". He'd done miniseries "Roots: The Next Generation" and "King", and TV movies "The Member Of The Wedding", "The Boy King" and "The Johnnie Gibson Story". He was nominated for a daytime Emmy for "Another World".
In "The Heat of the Night," Howard Rollins starred opposite Carroll O'Connor as a black detective from Philadelphia working in a racially volatile Southern town. Mr. Rollins' drug use repeatedly got him into legal trouble, and he was written out of the series after the 1992-93 season. Carl Weathers was added to the cast.
Howard Rollins died on Sunday, 8 December 1996, in New York, NY, , shortly before 2 p.m. in St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital.
A bacterial infection from septic shock due to complications from Lymphoma was the cause of his death.

Howard Rollins TV Appearances

Main cast

Show: In the Heat of the Night(1988)	As: Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs (S01-S05)
Show: Wildside(1985)	As: Bannister Sparks
Show: Another World(1964)	As: Ed Harding (1982)

Episode Cast Credits

Show: New York Undercover (1994)
	• The Smoking Section	01x15: (Jan/19/1995)	As	Rev. Hundley
Show: In the Heat of the Night (1988)
	• Conspiracy of One	07x17: (Feb/02/1994)	As	Virgil Tibbs
	• Good Cop, Bad Cop	07x13: (Jan/06/1994)	As	Virgil Tibbs
	• Virgil Tibbs, Attorney at Law	07x08: (Nov/04/1993)	As	Virgil Tibbs
Show: Fridays (1980)
	• Howard E. Rollins Jr. / Quarterflash	03x14: (Jan/22/1982)	As	Himself, [Guest Hosts]