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.
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Known For
Acting History
2026
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History as Self - Host
2025The Gettysburg Address as Self
2025Great Migrations: A People on the Move as Self - Host
2024Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America as Himself
2024Gospel as Self
2024Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as Self
2022Making Black America
2022Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches as Self
2021The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song as Self - Host
2020John Lewis: Good Trouble as Self
2020America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump as Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
2019Watchmen as Skip Gates
2019Reconstruction: America After the Civil War as Self
2019Reconstruction: America After the Civil War as Self - Host
2019Today with Hoda & Jenna as Self
2019Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America as Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
2018America's Library as Self
2017Not Black Enough as Self
2017Africa's Great Civilizations as Self - Presenter
2017Birth of a Movement as Self
2016Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise as Self - Presenter
201613th as Self
2016Black America since MLK: And still I rise
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2014Nas: Time Is Illmatic as Self
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2013The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as Self
2012Finding Your Roots as Self - Host
2010America: The Story of Us as Self
2010Faces of America
2009Looking for Lincoln as Self - Host
2005The Colbert Report
2004A Place of Our Own as Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
2004America Beyond the Color Line as Self - Host
2003Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property as Self
1999Wonders of the African World as Host
1999Leaving Cleaver as Self
1997The View as Self - Guest
1992Color Adjustment as Self
1989The Simpsons as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
1980Great Railway Journeys as Self - Presenter