Acting · Keyser, West Virginia, USA · Born September 16, 1950
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.
MovieW.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026
as Self
TVBlack and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
2026
as Self - Host
MovieThe Gettysburg Address
2025
as Self
TVGreat Migrations: A People on the Move
2025
as Self - Host
MovieHenry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
2024
as Himself
TVGospel
2024
as Self
MovieGospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2024
as Self
TVMaking Black America
2022
MovieFrederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022
as Self
TVThe Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021
as Self - Host
MovieJohn Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
as Self
TVAmerica's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
2020
as Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
TVWatchmen
2019
as Skip Gates
MovieReconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
as Self
TVReconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
as Self - Host
TVToday with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019
as Self
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019
as Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
MovieAmerica's Library
2018
as Self
MovieNot Black Enough
2017
as Self
TVAfrica's Great Civilizations
2017
as Self - Presenter
MovieBirth of a Movement
2017
as Self
TVBlack America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016
as Self - Presenter
Movie13th
2016
as Self
MovieBlack America since MLK: And still I rise
2016
TVThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self
MovieNas: Time Is Illmatic
2014
as Self
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
TVThe African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013
as Self
TVFinding Your Roots
2012
as Self - Host
TVAmerica: The Story of Us
2010
as Self
Faces of America
2010
MovieLooking for Lincoln
2009
as Self - Host
TVThe Colbert Report
2005
MovieA Place of Our Own
2004
as Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
TVAmerica Beyond the Color Line
2004
as Self - Host
MovieNat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
as Self
TVJimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self - Guest
Wonders of the African World
1999
as Host
MovieLeaving Cleaver
1999
as Self
TVThe View
1997
as Self - Guest
MovieColor Adjustment
1992
as Self
TVThe Simpsons
1989
as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
TVGreat Railway Journeys
1980
as Self - Presenter
