Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Acting • Born 1950-09-16
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.
Filmography
43 credits
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Movie • 2022
Self
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Movie • 2014
Self
America's Library
Movie • 2018
Self
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Movie • 2024
Self
Black America since MLK: And still I rise
Movie • 2016
13th
Movie • 2016
Self
Birth of a Movement
Movie • 2017
Self
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Movie • 2003
Self
A Place of Our Own
Movie • 2004
Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
Color Adjustment
Movie • 1992
Self
Not Black Enough
Movie • 2017
Self
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Movie • 2019
Self
Looking for Lincoln
Movie • 2009
Self - Host
The Gettysburg Address
Movie • 2025
Self
Leaving Cleaver
Movie • 1999
Self
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Movie • 2020
Self
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
Movie • 2024
Himself
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Movie • 2019
Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
The View
TV • 1997
Self - Guest
The Colbert Report
TV • 2005
Faces of America
TV • 2010
Finding Your Roots
TV • 2012
Self - Host
Wonders of the African World
TV • 1999
Host
Africa's Great Civilizations
TV • 2017
Self - Presenter
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
TV • 2016
Self - Presenter
America Beyond the Color Line
TV • 2004
Self - Host
Gospel
TV • 2024
Self
Making Black America
TV • 2022
America: The Story of Us
TV • 2010
Self
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
TV • 2019
Self - Host
Great Railway Journeys
TV • 1980
Self - Presenter
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self
Watchmen
TV • 2019
Skip Gates
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
TV • 2021
Self - Host
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
TV • 2025
Self - Host
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
TV • 2019
Self
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
TV • 2013
Self
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
TV • 2020
Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
TV • 2026
Self - Host
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
TV • 2013
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV • 2014
Self - Guest