Howard Rollins
Also Known As: Howard Rollins Jr., Howard E. Rollins Jr., Howard E. Rollins
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Birthday: October 17, 1950
Deathday: December 08, 1996
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Gender: Male
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Ragtime
Overview: A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-20
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A Soldier's Story
Overview: In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also a black man—is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Davenport must battle with deceit and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill the Master Sergeant.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-14
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The Legacy of Malthus
Overview: 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, it takes on the international population "establishment", challenging the entrenched view that overpopulation alone is responsible for poverty and environmental destruction.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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The Neighborhood
Overview: A neighborhood in Brooklyn reacts to the first black families moving into the community.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-25
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Drunks
Overview: 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
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-14
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Remembering Ragtime
Overview: Memories from the making of the classic Milos Forman film "Ragtime".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-16
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The Children of Times Square
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-03
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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
Overview: 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.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-22
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The Member of the Wedding
Overview: 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 at the James K. Polk Theater, Nashville.]
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-20
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My Old Man
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-07
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The House of Dies Drear
Overview: 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.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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The Boy King
Overview: 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 segregation and become a leader in the civil rights movement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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On the Block
Overview: A stripper and a vice squad lieutenant become romantically involved in this contemporary drama set in the adult entertainment zone in 1980s Baltimore, Maryland. -- KillerMovies
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Harambee!
Overview: During a Kwanzaa celebration, a recovering drug addict who now counsels drug users inspires the residents of a Brooklyn housing project to apply the principles of the holiday to combat violence in their neighborhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-01
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Thornwell
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-28
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A Doctor's Story
Overview: A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-23
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With Murder in Mind
Overview: A real estate agent is shot while trying to sell a rural farm and tries to bring the shooter to justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-12
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Johnnie Mae Gibson: FBI
Overview: A police officer is called by F.B.I. to infiltrate into gang of arms smugglers.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-21
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He's Fired, She's Hired
Overview: 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."
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-18
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The Trial of the Moke
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-03
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The House of God
Overview: Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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