Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Acting1950Keyser, West Virginia, USA
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
Acting History
2026
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
TVas Self - Host
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
TVExecutive Producer
2025
The Gettysburg Address
as Self
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
TVas Self• 1 eps
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
TVas Self - Host
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
TVExecutive Producer
2023
The Simpsons
TVas Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)• 1 eps
2022
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Executive Producer
Making Black America
TVExecutive Producer
Making Black America
TVWriter
2021
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
TVas Self - Host
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Executive Producer
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
Executive Producer
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
TVExecutive Producer
2020
John Lewis: Good Trouble
as Self
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
TVas Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
2019
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
as Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
Watchmen
TVas Skip Gates• 2 eps
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
TVas Self - Host
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Executive Producer
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
TVExecutive Producer
Who Killed Malcolm X?
TVExecutive Producer
2018
America's Library
as Self
2017
Birth of a Movement
as Self
Not Black Enough
as Self
Africa's Great Civilizations
TVas Self - Presenter
Africa's Great Civilizations
TVWriter
2016
13th
as Self
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
TVas Self - Presenter
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TVas Self
2014
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TVas Self - Guest / Self
2012
Finding Your Roots
TVas Self - Host• 120 eps
Finding Your Roots
TVExecutive Producer
Finding Your Roots
TVWriter
2010
2009
2004
A Place of Our Own
as Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
America Beyond the Color Line
TVas Self - Host
America Beyond the Color Line
TVWriter
2003
Let the Church Say, Amen
Executive Producer
1999
Leaving Cleaver
as Self
Wonders of the African World
TVas Host
Leaving Cleaver
Writer
Wonders of the African World
TVWriter
1997
The View
TVas Self - Guest
1992
Color Adjustment
as Self
1980
Great Railway Journeys
TVas Self - Presenter