Howard Rollins
Popularity:0.344
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1950-10-17
Place of Birth:Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
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Also Known As:Howard Rollins Jr., Howard E. Rollins Jr., Howard E. Rollins

Ragtime (1981)
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other...

A Soldier's Story (1984)
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain...

The Legacy of Malthus (1994)
Discusses Malthus's theories of population and the causes of poverty. As film contrasts the 19th century poor in Scotland with today's poor in India,...

The Neighborhood (1982)
A neighborhood in Brooklyn reacts to the first black families moving into the community.

Drunks (1997)
At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first...

Remembering Ragtime (2004)
Memories from the making of the classic Milos Forman film "Ragtime".

The Children of Times Square (1986)
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...

My Old Man (1979)
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...

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers (1983)
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 Member of the Wedding (1982)
12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams dreams of going away with her brother and his bride-to-be on their upcoming honeymoon. [Taped live in performance...

The House of Dies Drear (1984)
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...

The Boy King (1986)
Focuses on young Martin Luther King Jr.'s early encounters with prejudice and how the love and courage of his family moved him to speak out against...

Harambee! (1996)
During a Kwanzaa celebration, a recovering drug addict who now counsels drug users inspires the residents of a Brooklyn housing project to apply the...

On the Block (1990)
A stripper and a vice squad lieutenant become romantically involved in this contemporary drama set in the adult entertainment zone in 1980s...

Thornwell (1981)
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...

A Doctor's Story (1984)
A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.

With Murder in Mind (1992)
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 (1986)
A police officer is called by F.B.I. to infiltrate into gang of arms smugglers.

He's Fired, She's Hired (1984)
Advertising executive, Alex Grier, is fired and is unable to find another position, being over-qualified. His wife, Annabelle, with no experience, is...

The Trial of the Moke (1978)
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...

The House of God (1984)
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.

In the Heat of the Night (1988)
In the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name starring Carroll O'Connor as the...

King (1978)
The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister in the South of the 1950s until his assassination in...

New York Undercover (1994)
New York Undercover is an American police drama The series stars Detective J.C. Williams and Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New...

Another World (1964)
Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC for 35 years from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. Set in the fictional town of Bay...

Fridays (1980)
Fridays is the name of ABC's weekly late-night live comedy show, which aired on Friday nights from April 11, 1980 to April 23, 1982.

Wildside (1985)
Wildside is an American series aired by ABC from March to April 1985. The series stars William Smith, J. Eddie Peck, Howard Rollins, William Smith,...

Roots: The Next Generations (1979)
Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family...

Remember WENN (1996)
The personal and professional lives of the staff of fictional Pittsburgh radio station WENN in the early 1940s, before and during World War II.