
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.
Known For

1989
The Simpsons
1989 · tv

2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · tv

2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · tv

2005
The Colbert Report
2005 · tv

1997
The View
1997 · tv

2012
Finding Your Roots
2012 · tv

2019
Watchmen
2019 · tv

2019
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019 · tv

2010
America: The Story of Us
2010 · tv

1980
Great Railway Journeys
1980 · tv

2016
13th
2016 · movie

2004
America Beyond the Color Line
2004 · tv

2020
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
2020 · tv

2025
The Gettysburg Address
2025 · movie

2025
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
2025 · tv

2026
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
2026 · tv

2024
Gospel
2024 · tv

2022
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022 · movie

2020
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020 · movie

2017
Africa's Great Civilizations
2017 · tv

1992
Color Adjustment
1992 · movie

2003
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003 · movie

2014
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014 · movie

2026
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026 · movie

2016
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016 · tv

2019
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019 · tv

2021
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021 · tv

2013
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013 · tv

2022
Making Black America
2022 · tv

1999
Leaving Cleaver
1999 · movie