Person
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Acting · Born 1950-09-16 · Keyser, 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
The Simpsons
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
The Colbert Report
2005
The View
Self - Guest
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
Finding Your Roots
Self - Host
Watchmen
Skip Gates
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
Self
America: The Story of Us
Self
Filmography
- 2026W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a CauseSelf
- 2026Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven HistorySelf - Host
- 2025The Gettysburg AddressSelf
- 2025Great Migrations: A People on the MoveSelf - Host
- 2024Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of AmericaHimself
- 2024GospelSelf
- 2024Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Self
- 2022Making Black America
- 2022Frederick Douglass: In Five SpeechesSelf
- 2021Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)Executive Producer
- 2021The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our SongSelf - Host
- 2021Black Art: In the Absence of LightExecutive Producer
- 2020John Lewis: Good TroubleSelf
- 2020America's Great Divide: From Obama to TrumpSelf (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
- 2019WatchmenSkip Gates
- 2019Who Killed Malcolm X?Executive Producer
- 2019Reconstruction: America After the Civil WarSelf
- 2019Reconstruction: America After the Civil WarSelf - Host
- 2019Today with Jenna & SheinelleSelf
- 2019Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering AmericaSelf - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
- 2018America's LibrarySelf
- 2017Not Black EnoughSelf
- 2017Africa's Great CivilizationsSelf - Presenter
- 2017Birth of a MovementSelf
- 2016Black America Since MLK: And Still I RiseSelf - Presenter
- 201613thSelf
- 2016Black America since MLK: And still I rise
- 2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSelf
- 2014Nas: Time Is IllmaticSelf
- 2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonSelf
- 2013The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Self
- 2012Finding Your RootsSelf - Host
- 2010America: The Story of UsSelf
- 2010Faces of America
- 2009Looking for LincolnSelf - Host
- 2005The Colbert Report
- 2004A Place of Our OwnSelf (as Henry Louis Gates)
- 2004America Beyond the Color LineSelf - Host
- 2003Let the Church Say, AmenExecutive Producer
- 2003Nat Turner: A Troublesome PropertySelf
- 2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!Self - Guest
- 1999Wonders of the African WorldHost
- 1999Leaving CleaverSelf
- 1997The ViewSelf - Guest
- 1992Color AdjustmentSelf
- 1989The SimpsonsHenry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
- 1980Great Railway JourneysSelf - Presenter
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