Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Acting Born Sep 16, 1950 Keyser, West Virginia, USA 24 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.
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Full filmography
- The Simpsons (1989) as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) as Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) as Self - Guest
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2015) as Self
- The View (1997) as Self - Guest
- The View (1997) as Self
- The Colbert Report (2005)
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003) as Self - Guest
- Watchmen (2019) as Skip Gates
- Finding Your Roots (2012) as Self - Host
- Today with Jenna & Sheinelle (2019) as Self
- America: The Story of Us (2010) as Self
- Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (2022) as Self
- Great Railway Journeys (1980) as Self - Presenter
- 13th (2016) as Self
- America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump (2020) as Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
- The Gettysburg Address (2025) as Self
- America Beyond the Color Line (2004) as Self - Host
- Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History (2026) as Self - Host
- Gospel (2024) as Self
- Making Black America (2022)
- Great Migrations: A People on the Move (2025) as Self - Host
- Africa's Great Civilizations (2017) as Self - Presenter
- Color Adjustment (1992) as Self