Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Acting
Born: 1950-09-16 · Keyser, West Virginia, USA
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.
🎬 Movies (19)
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026
Self
The Gettysburg Address
2025
Self
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
2024
Himself
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2024
Self
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022
Self
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
Self
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
Self
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019
Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
America's Library
2018
Self
Not Black Enough
2017
Self
Birth of a Movement
2017
Self
13th
2016
Self
Black America since MLK: And still I rise
2016
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014
Self
Looking for Lincoln
2009
Self - Host
A Place of Our Own
2004
Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
Self
Leaving Cleaver
1999
Self
Color Adjustment
1992
Self
📺 TV Shows (20)
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
2026
Self - Host
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
2025
Self - Host
Gospel
2024
Self
Making Black America
2022
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021
Self - Host
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
2020
Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
Watchmen
2019
Skip Gates
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
Self - Host
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019
Self
Africa's Great Civilizations
2017
Self - Presenter
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016
Self - Presenter
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Self - Guest
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013
Self
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013
Finding Your Roots
2012
Self - Host
America: The Story of Us
2010
Self
Faces of America
2010
The Colbert Report
2005