Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday16 September 1950 (76 years old)
Place of birthKeyser, West Virginia, USA
Known credits46
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.
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026 · Self
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
2026 · Self - Host
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
2026 · Executive Producer
The Gettysburg Address
2025 · Self
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
2025 · Self - Host
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
2025 · Executive Producer
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
2024 · Himself
Gospel
2024 · Self
Gospel
2024 · Executive Producer
Gospel
2024 · Writer
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2024 · Self
Making Black America
2022
Making Black America
2022 · Executive Producer
Making Black America
2022 · Writer
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022 · Self
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022 · Executive Producer
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
2021 · Executive Producer
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021 · Self - Host
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021 · Executive Producer
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
2021 · Executive Producer
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020 · Self
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
2020 · Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
Watchmen
2019 · Skip Gates
Who Killed Malcolm X?
2019 · Executive Producer
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019 · Self
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019 · Self - Host
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019 · Executive Producer
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019 · Writer
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019 · Executive Producer
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019 · Creator
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019 · Self
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019 · Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
America's Library
2018 · Self
Not Black Enough
2017 · Self
Africa's Great Civilizations
2017 · Self - Presenter
Africa's Great Civilizations
2017 · Writer
Birth of a Movement
2017 · Self
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016 · Self - Presenter
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016 · Writer
13th
2016 · Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self - Guest
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013 · Self
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013 · Creator
Finding Your Roots
2012 · Self - Host
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