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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Born September 16, 1950 in Keyser, West Virginia, USA
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
The Simpsons1989
Watchmen2019
The Colbert Report2005
Making Black America2022
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.2013
Filmography
- 2026W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a CauseFilmSelf
- 2026Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven HistorySeriesSelf - Host, Executive Producer
- 2025The Gettysburg AddressFilmSelf
- 2025Great Migrations: A People on the MoveSeriesSelf - Host, Executive Producer
- 2024GospelSeriesSelf, Executive Producer, Writer
- 2024Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.FilmSelf
- 2024Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of AmericaFilmHimself
- 2022Frederick Douglass: In Five SpeechesFilmSelf, Executive Producer
- 2022Making Black AmericaSeriesExecutive Producer, Writer
- 2021Black Art: In the Absence of LightFilmExecutive Producer
- 2021Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)FilmExecutive Producer
- 2021The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our SongSeriesSelf - Host, Executive Producer
- 2020John Lewis: Good TroubleFilmSelf
- 2020America's Great Divide: From Obama to TrumpSeriesSelf (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
- 2019WatchmenSeriesSkip Gates
- 2019Who Killed Malcolm X?SeriesExecutive Producer
- 2019Reconstruction: America After the Civil WarSeriesSelf - Host, Executive Producer, Creator
- 2019Today with Jenna & SheinelleSeriesSelf
- 2019Reconstruction: America After the Civil WarFilmSelf, Executive Producer, Writer
- 2019Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering AmericaFilmSelf - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
- 2018America's LibraryFilmSelf
- 2017Africa's Great CivilizationsSeriesSelf - Presenter, Writer
- 2017Birth of a MovementFilmSelf
- 2017Not Black EnoughFilmSelf
- 201613thFilmSelf
- 2016Black America Since MLK: And Still I RiseSeriesSelf - Presenter, Writer
- 2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertSeriesSelf
- 2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonSeriesSelf, Self - Guest
- 2014Nas: Time Is IllmaticFilmSelf
- 2013The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.SeriesSelf, Creator
- 2012Finding Your RootsSeriesSelf - Host, Writer, Executive Producer
- 2010America: The Story of UsSeriesSelf
- 2010Faces of AmericaSeries
- 2009Looking for LincolnFilmSelf - Host, Writer, Executive Producer
- 2005The Colbert ReportSeries
- 2004America Beyond the Color LineSeriesSelf - Host, Writer
- 2004A Place of Our OwnFilmSelf (as Henry Louis Gates)
- 2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!SeriesSelf - Guest
- 2003Nat Turner: A Troublesome PropertyFilmSelf
- 2003Let the Church Say, AmenFilmExecutive Producer
- 1999Leaving CleaverFilmSelf, Writer
- 1999Wonders of the African WorldSeriesHost, Writer
- 1997The ViewSeriesSelf - Guest, Self
- 1992Color AdjustmentFilmSelf
- 1989The SimpsonsSeriesHenry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
- 1980Great Railway JourneysSeriesSelf - Presenter