Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Acting
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.
TV Shows(23)
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
Self - Host
2026
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
Self - Host
2025
Gospel
Self
2024
Making Black America
2022
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
Self - Host
2021
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
2020
Watchmen
Skip Gates
2019
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Self - Host
2019
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
Self
2019
Africa's Great Civilizations
Self - Presenter
2017
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
Self - Presenter
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self
2013
Finding Your Roots
Self - Host
2012
America: The Story of Us
Self
2010
Faces of America
2010
The Colbert Report
2005
America Beyond the Color Line
Self - Host
2004
Wonders of the African World
Host
1999
The View
Self - Guest
1997
The Simpsons
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
1989
Great Railway Journeys
Self - Presenter
1980
Movies(18)
The Gettysburg Address
Self
2025
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
Himself
2024
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self
2024
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Self
2022
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Self
2020
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Self
2019
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
2019
America's Library
Self
2018
Not Black Enough
Self
2017
Birth of a Movement
Self
2017
13th
Self
2016
Black America since MLK: And still I rise
2016
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Self
2014
Looking for Lincoln
Self - Host
2009
A Place of Our Own
Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
2004
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Self
2003
Leaving Cleaver
Self
1999
Color Adjustment
Self
1992