Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
September 16, 1950
Place of Birth:
Keyser, West Virginia, USA
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Biography
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. is an American historian, literary critic, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Gettysburg Address | Self |
| 2024 | Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Self |
| 2024 | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America | Himself |
| 2022 | Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches | Self |
| 2020 | Frontline: America's Great Divide | Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates) |
| 2020 | John Lewis: Good Trouble | Self |
| 2019 | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War | Self |
| 2019 | Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America | Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker |
| 2018 | America's Library | Self |
| 2017 | Birth of a Movement | Self |
| 2017 | Not Black Enough | Self |
| 2016 | Black America since MLK: And still I rise | |
| 2016 | 13th | Self |
| 2014 | Nas: Time Is Illmatic | Self |
| 2009 | Looking for Lincoln | Self - Host |
| 2004 | A Place of Our Own | Self (as Henry Louis Gates) |
| 2003 | Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property | Self |
| 1999 | Leaving Cleaver | Self |
| 1992 | Color Adjustment | Self |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Great Migrations: A People on the Move | Self - Host |
| 2024 | Gospel | Self |
| 2022 | Making Black America | |
| 2021 | The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song | Self - Host |
| 2019 | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War | Self - Host |
| 2019 | Watchmen | Skip Gates |
| 2019 | Today with Hoda & Jenna | Self |
| 2017 | Africa's Great Civilizations | Self - Presenter |
| 2016 | Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise | Self - Presenter |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self |
| 2013 | The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Self |
| 2012 | Finding Your Roots | Self - Host |
| 2010 | Faces of America | |
| 2010 | America: The Story of Us | Self |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report | |
| 2004 | America Beyond the Color Line | Self - Host |
| 1999 | Wonders of the African World | Host |
| 1997 | The View | Self - Guest |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice) |
| 1980 | Great Railway Journeys | Self - Presenter |