Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
September 16, 1950
Age
75
Place of Birth
Keyser, West Virginia, USA
Popularity
0.7
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Acting
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.
Also known as
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. · Skip Gates · Skip Gates, Jr. · Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr
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Known For
8.0
The Simpsons
1989 · TV
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · TV
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · TV
6.9
The Colbert Report
2005 · TV
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · TV
4.3
The View
1997 · TV
6.5
Finding Your Roots
2012 · TV
7.6
Watchmen
2019 · TV
3.3
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019 · TV
8.2
America: The Story of Us
2010 · TV
10.0
Gospel
2024 · TV
7.0
Great Railway Journeys
1980 · TV
Filmography
2026
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
Movie · Self
6.0
2026
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
TV · Self - Host
5.3
2025
The Gettysburg Address
Movie · Self
0.0
2025
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
TV · Self - Host
0.0
2024
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
Movie · Himself
0.0
2024
Gospel
TV · Self
10.0
2024
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Movie · Self
0.0
2022
Making Black America
TV
6.0
2022
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Movie · Self
4.6
2021
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
TV · Self - Host
0.0
2020
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Movie · Self
4.4
2020
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
TV · Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
0.0
2019
Watchmen
TV · Skip Gates
7.6
2019
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Movie · Self
7.0
2019
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
TV · Self - Host
7.0
2019
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
TV · Self
3.3
2019
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Movie · Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
0.0
2018
America's Library
Movie · Self
0.0
2017
Not Black Enough
Movie · Self
7.8
2017
Africa's Great Civilizations
TV · Self - Presenter
7.7
2017
Birth of a Movement
Movie · Self
6.4
2016
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
TV · Self - Presenter
9.0
2016
13th
Movie · Self
7.8
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV · Self
6.1