
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Known for Acting · 42 credits
- Born
- 1950-09-16 (age 75)
- Place of birth
- Keyser, West Virginia, USA
- Also known as
- Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. · Skip Gates · Skip Gates, Jr. · Dr. 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.
Known For
TV Shows (23)

The Simpsons
1989
as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self / Self - Guest

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self

The Colbert Report
2005

The View
1997
as Self - Guest

Finding Your Roots
2012
as Self - Host

Watchmen
2019
as Skip Gates

Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019
as Self

America: The Story of Us
2010
as Self

Great Railway Journeys
1980
as Self - Presenter

America Beyond the Color Line
2004
as Self - Host

America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
2020
as Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)

Great Migrations: A People on the Move
2025
as Self - Host

Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
2026
as Self - Host

Africa's Great Civilizations
2017
as Self - Presenter

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021
as Self - Host

Gospel
2024
as Self

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
as Self - Host

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016
as Self - Presenter
Wonders of the African World
1999
as Host

Making Black America
2022

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013
as Self
Faces of America
2010
Movies (19)

13th
2016
as Self

The Gettysburg Address
2025
as Self

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022
as Self

W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026
as Self

John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
as Self

Color Adjustment
1992
as Self

Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014
as Self

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
as Self

Black America since MLK: And still I rise
2016
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019
as Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker

America's Library
2018
as Self

Leaving Cleaver
1999
as Self

Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2024
as Self

Not Black Enough
2017
as Self

Birth of a Movement
2017
as Self

Looking for Lincoln
2009
as Self - Host

A Place of Our Own
2004
as Self (as Henry Louis Gates)

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
2024
as Himself

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
as Self
About 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. With 42 credits spanning from 1980 to 2026, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has appeared in 19 films and 23 TV shows.
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- 13th (2016) — as Self
- The Gettysburg Address (2025) — as Self
- Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (2022) — as Self
- W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause (2026) — as Self
- John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020) — as Self
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