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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Movies (21)
The Gettysburg Address
as Self
2025
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
as Himself
2024
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
as Self
2024
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
as Self
2022
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
Executive Producer (Production)
2021
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Executive Producer (Production)
2021
John Lewis: Good Trouble
as Self
2020
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
as Self
2019
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
as Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
2019
America's Library
as Self
2018
Not Black Enough
as Self
2017
Birth of a Movement
as Self
2017
13th
as Self
2016
Black America since MLK: And still I rise
2016
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
as Self
2014
Looking for Lincoln
as Self - Host
2009
A Place of Our Own
as Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
2004
Let the Church Say, Amen
Executive Producer (Production)
2003
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
as Self
2003
Leaving Cleaver
as Self
1999
Color Adjustment
as Self
1992
TV Shows (24)
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
as Self - Host
2026
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
as Self - Host
2025
Gospel
as Self
2024
Making Black America
2022
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
as Self - Host
2021
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
as Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
2020
Watchmen
as Skip Gates
2019
Who Killed Malcolm X?
Executive Producer (Production)
2019
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
as Self - Host
2019
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
as Self
2019
Africa's Great Civilizations
as Self - Presenter
2017
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
as Self - Presenter
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
as Self
2013
Finding Your Roots
as Self - Host
2012
America: The Story of Us
as Self
2010
Faces of America
2010
The Colbert Report
2005
America Beyond the Color Line
as Self - Host
2004
Wonders of the African World
as Host
1999
The View
as Self - Guest
1997
The Simpsons
as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
1989
Great Railway Journeys
as Self - Presenter
1980