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