
Actor
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Born 1950 · 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.
Acting

The Simpsons
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice) · 1989

Watchmen
Skip Gates · 2019

13th
Self · 2016

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self · 2015

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · 2014

Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Self · 2014

America: The Story of Us
Self · 2010

Gospel
Self · 2024

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self · 2013

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
Self - Presenter · 2016

Color Adjustment
Self · 1992

Africa's Great Civilizations
Self - Presenter · 2017

A Place of Our Own
Self (as Henry Louis Gates) · 2004

The View
Self - Guest · 1997

Not Black Enough
Self · 2017

Finding Your Roots
Self - Host · 2012

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Self · 2003

America Beyond the Color Line
Self - Host · 2004

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Self - Host · 2019

Birth of a Movement
Self · 2017

Great Railway Journeys
Self - Presenter · 1980

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Self · 2019

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Self · 2022

Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
Self - Host · 2026
Writing

Gospel
Writer · 2024

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
Writer · 2016

Africa's Great Civilizations
Writer · 2017

Finding Your Roots
Writer · 2012

America Beyond the Color Line
Writer · 2004

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Writer · 2019

Making Black America
Writer · 2022
Wonders of the African World
Writer · 1999

Leaving Cleaver
Writer · 1999

Looking for Lincoln
Writer · 2009