3.3Acting
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Born
- 1950-09-16
- Birthplace
- 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
Filmography
46 titles · Newest first · Cast and crew credits
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
2026 · TV Show
Self - Host · Executive Producer
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026 · Movie
Self
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
2025 · TV Show
Self - Host · Executive Producer
The Gettysburg Address
2025 · Movie
Self
Gospel
2024 · TV Show
Self · Executive Producer · Writer
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2024 · Movie
Self
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
2024 · Movie
Himself
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022 · Movie
Self · Executive Producer
Making Black America
2022 · TV Show
Cast · Executive Producer · Writer
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
2021 · Movie
Executive Producer
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
2021 · Movie
Executive Producer
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021 · TV Show
Self - Host · Executive Producer
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
2020 · TV Show
Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020 · Movie
Self
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019 · Movie
Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019 · Movie
Self · Executive Producer · Writer
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019 · TV Show
Self - Host · Executive Producer · Creator
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019 · TV Show
Self
Watchmen
2019 · TV Show
Skip Gates
Who Killed Malcolm X?
2019 · TV Show
Executive Producer
America's Library
2018 · Movie
Self
Africa's Great Civilizations
2017 · TV Show
Self - Presenter · Writer
Birth of a Movement
2017 · Movie
Self
Not Black Enough
2017 · Movie
Self
13th
2016 · Movie
Self
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016 · TV Show
Self - Presenter · Writer
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · TV Show
Self
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014 · Movie
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · TV Show
Self · Self - Guest
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013 · TV Show
Self · Cast · Creator
Finding Your Roots
2012 · TV Show
Self - Host · Writer · Executive Producer
America: The Story of Us
2010 · TV Show
Self
Faces of America
2010 · TV Show
Cast
Looking for Lincoln
2009 · Movie
Self - Host · Writer · Executive Producer
The Colbert Report
2005 · TV Show
Cast
A Place of Our Own
2004 · Movie
Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
America Beyond the Color Line
2004 · TV Show
Self - Host · Writer
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · TV Show
Self - Guest
Let the Church Say, Amen
2003 · Movie
Executive Producer
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003 · Movie
Self
Leaving Cleaver
1999 · Movie
Self · Writer
Wonders of the African World
1999 · TV Show
Host · Writer
The View
1997 · TV Show
Self - Guest · Self
Color Adjustment
1992 · Movie
Self
The Simpsons
1989 · TV Show
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
Great Railway Journeys
1980 · TV Show
Self - Presenter