Howard Rollins
Howard Ellsworth Rollins Jr. was an American stage, film and television actor. Howard Rollins 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, Captain Davenport in the 1984 film A Soldier's Story, and as Virgil Tibbs on the TV crime drama In the Heat of the Night. In the fall of 1996, Rollins was diagnosed with AIDS. Six weeks later, he died at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York at the age of 46, from complications from AIDS-related lymphoma. As was typical at the time, his publicist issued a statement claiming he suffered from lymphatic cancer. He was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in his native Baltimore.
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General Info
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Male
Date of Birth
October 17th, 1950
Age
74
Birth Place
United States of America, Maryland
Date of Death
December 8th, 1996
Died Aged
46
Star Sign
Libra
Occupation
Actor
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Roles
Captain Davenport in
A Soldier's Story
Coalhouse Walker Jr. in
Ragtime
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