Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
September 16, 1950 (74 years old) in Keyser, West Virginia, USA
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
Credits
- 2025 · The Gettysburg Address as Self
- 2024 · Gospel as Self
- 2024 · Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as Self
- 2022 · Making Black America as
- 2022 · Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches as Self
- 2021 · The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song as Self - Host
- 2020 · John Lewis: Good Trouble as Self
- 2020 · Frontline: America's Great Divide as Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
- 2019 · Watchmen as Skip Gates
- 2019 · Reconstruction: America After the Civil War as Self
- 2019 · Reconstruction: America After the Civil War as Self - Host
- 2018 · America's Library as Self
- 2017 · Not Black Enough as Self
- 2017 · Africa's Great Civilizations as Self - Presenter
- 2017 · Birth of a Movement as Self
- 2016 · Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise as Self - Presenter
- 2016 · 13th as Self
- 2016 · Black America since MLK: And still I rise as
- 2015 · The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
- 2014 · Nas: Time Is Illmatic as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2012 · Finding Your Roots as Self - Host
- 2010 · America: The Story of Us as Self
- 2010 · Faces of America as
- 2009 · Looking for Lincoln as Self - Host
- 2005 · The Colbert Report as
- 2004 · A Place of Our Own as Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
- 2004 · America Beyond the Color Line as Self - Host
- 2003 · Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property as Self
- 1999 · Wonders of the African World as Host
- 1999 · Leaving Cleaver as Self
- 1997 · The View as Self - Guest
- 1992 · Color Adjustment as Self
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
- 1980 · Great Railway Journeys as Self - Presenter