Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 16, 1950
Place of Birth
Keyser, West Virginia, USA
Credits
47 titles
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
Filmography
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
Self
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
Self - Host
The Gettysburg Address
Self
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
Self - Host
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
Himself
Gospel
Self
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self
Making Black America
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Self
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
Executive Producer
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
Self - Host
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Executive Producer
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Self
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
Watchmen
Skip Gates
Who Killed Malcolm X?
Executive Producer
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Self - Host
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Self
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
Self
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
America's Library
Self
Not Black Enough
Self
Africa's Great Civilizations
Self - Presenter
Birth of a Movement
Self
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
Self - Presenter
13th
Self
Black America since MLK: And still I rise
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self
Finding Your Roots
Self - Host
America: The Story of Us
Self
Faces of America
Looking for Lincoln
Self - Host
The Colbert Report
A Place of Our Own
Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
America Beyond the Color Line
Self - Host
Let the Church Say, Amen
Executive Producer
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
Wonders of the African World
Host
Leaving Cleaver
Self
The View
Self - Guest
Color Adjustment
Self
The Simpsons
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
Great Railway Journeys
Self - Presenter