Acting
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Acting · Born 1950-09-16 · Keyser, West Virginia, USA
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.
Credits · 39
FilmW.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026 · Self
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
2026 · Self - Host
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
2025 · Self - Host
Gospel
2024 · Self
Making Black America
2022 · Executive Producer
FilmFrederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022 · Self
FilmCivil 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
FilmBlack Art: In the Absence of Light
2021 · Executive Producer
FilmJohn 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
FilmReconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019 · Self
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019 · Self - Host
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019 · Self
FilmNot Black Enough
2017 · Self
Africa's Great Civilizations
2017 · Self - Presenter
FilmBirth of a Movement
2017 · Self
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016 · Self - Presenter
Film13th
2016 · Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Self
FilmNas: Time Is Illmatic
2014 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Self
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013 · Self
Finding Your Roots
2012 · Self - Host
America: The Story of Us
2010 · Self
Faces of America
Faces of America
2010
The Colbert Report
2005
FilmA Place of Our Own
2004 · Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
America Beyond the Color Line
2004 · Self - Host
FilmLet the Church Say, Amen
2003 · Executive Producer
FilmNat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003 · Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self - Guest
Wonders of the African World
Wonders of the African World
1999 · Host
The View
1997 · Self - Guest
FilmColor Adjustment
1992 · Self
The Simpsons
1989 · Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
Great Railway Journeys
1980 · Self - Presenter