- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- September 16, 1950
- Place of Birth
- Keyser, West Virginia, USA
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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.
Filmography
movieW.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026 · Self
tvBlack and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
2026 · Self - Host, Executive Producer
movieThe Gettysburg Address
2025 · Self
tvGreat Migrations: A People on the Move
2025 · Self - Host, Executive Producer
movieHenry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
2024 · Himself
tvGospel
2024 · Self, Executive Producer, Writer
movieGospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2024 · Self
tvMaking Black America
2022 · , Executive Producer, Writer
movieFrederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022 · Self, Executive Producer
movieCivil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
2021 · Executive Producer
tvThe Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021 · Self - Host, Executive Producer
movieBlack Art: In the Absence of Light
2021 · Executive Producer
movieJohn Lewis: Good Trouble
2020 · Self
tvAmerica's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
2020 · Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
tvWatchmen
2019 · Skip Gates
tvWho Killed Malcolm X?
2019 · Executive Producer
movieReconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019 · Self, Executive Producer, Writer
tvReconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019 · Self - Host, Executive Producer, Creator
tvToday with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019 · Self
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019 · Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
movieAmerica's Library
2018 · Self
movieNot Black Enough
2017 · Self
tvAfrica's Great Civilizations
2017 · Self - Presenter, Writer
movieBirth of a Movement
2017 · Self
tvBlack America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016 · Self - Presenter, Writer
movie13th
2016 · Self
movieBlack America since MLK: And still I rise
2016
tvThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self
movieNas: Time Is Illmatic
2014 · Self
tvThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self, Self - Guest
tvThe African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013 · Self, Creator
tvFinding Your Roots
2012 · Self - Host, Writer, Executive Producer
tvAmerica: The Story of Us
2010 · Self
Faces of America
2010
movieLooking for Lincoln
2009 · Self - Host, Executive Producer, Writer
tvThe Colbert Report
2005
movieA Place of Our Own
2004 · Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
tvAmerica Beyond the Color Line
2004 · Self - Host, Writer
movieLet the Church Say, Amen
2003 · Executive Producer
movieNat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003 · Self
tvJimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self - Guest
Wonders of the African World
1999 · Host, Writer
movieLeaving Cleaver
1999 · Self, Writer
tvThe View
1997 · Self - Guest
movieColor Adjustment
1992 · Self
tvThe Simpsons
1989 · Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
tvGreat Railway Journeys
1980 · Self - Presenter