Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
September 16, 1950 (74 years old) in Keyser, West Virginia, USA
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
Credits
- 2025 ·The Gettysburg Addressas Self
- 2024 ·Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of Americaas Himself
- 2024 ·Gospelas Self
- 2024 ·Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.as Self
- 2022 ·Making Black Americaas
- 2022 ·Frederick Douglass: In Five Speechesas Self
- 2021 ·The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Songas Self - Host
- 2020 ·John Lewis: Good Troubleas Self
- 2020 ·Frontline: America's Great Divideas Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
- 2019 ·Watchmenas Skip Gates
- 2019 ·Reconstruction: America After the Civil Waras Self - Host
- 2019 ·Reconstruction: America After the Civil Waras Self
- 2018 ·America's Libraryas Self
- 2017 ·Not Black Enoughas Self
- 2017 ·Africa's Great Civilizationsas Self - Presenter
- 2017 ·Birth of a Movementas Self
- 2016 ·Black America Since MLK: And Still I Riseas Self - Presenter
- 2016 ·13thas Self
- 2016 ·Black America since MLK: And still I riseas
- 2015 ·The Late Show with Stephen Colbertas Self
- 2014 ·Nas: Time Is Illmaticas Self
- 2014 ·The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonas Self
- 2012 ·Finding Your Rootsas Self - Host
- 2010 ·America: The Story of Usas Self
- 2010 ·Faces of Americaas
- 2009 ·Looking for Lincolnas Self - Host
- 2005 ·The Colbert Reportas
- 2004 ·A Place of Our Ownas Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
- 2004 ·America Beyond the Color Lineas Self - Host
- 2003 ·Nat Turner: A Troublesome Propertyas Self
- 1999 ·Wonders of the African Worldas Host
- 1999 ·Leaving Cleaveras Self
- 1997 ·The Viewas Self - Guest
- 1992 ·Color Adjustmentas Self
- 1989 ·The Simpsonsas Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
- 1980 ·Great Railway Journeysas Self - Presenter
- Future ·Great Migrations: A People on the Moveas Himself