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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 16, 1950
Place of Birth
Keyser, West Virginia, USA
Also Known As
- Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr.
- Skip Gates
- Skip Gates, Jr.
- Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
0.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Self - Host
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
2026
0.0
Self
The Gettysburg Address
2025
0.0
Self - Host
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
2025
0.0
Himself
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
2024
10.0
Self
Gospel
2024
0.0
Self
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2024
6.0
Making Black America
2022
6.0
Self
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022
0.0
Self - Host
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021
4.1
Self
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
Credits
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Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
as Self - Host
2026
0.0
The Gettysburg Address
as Self
2025
0.0
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
as Self - Host
2025
0.0
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
as Himself
2024
0.0
Gospel
as Self
2024
10.0
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
as Self
2024
0.0
Making Black America
2022
6.0
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
as Self
2022
6.0
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
as Self - Host
2021
0.0
John Lewis: Good Trouble
as Self
2020
4.1
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
as Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
2020
0.0
Watchmen
as Skip Gates
2019
7.6
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
as Self - Host
2019
7.0
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
as Self
2019
7.0
Today with Hoda & Jenna
as Self
2019
4.5
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
as Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
2019
0.0
America's Library
as Self
2018
0.0
Not Black Enough
as Self
2017
7.8
Africa's Great Civilizations
as Self - Presenter
2017
8.0
Birth of a Movement
as Self
2017
6.4
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
as Self - Presenter
2016
9.0
13th
as Self
2016
7.9
Black America since MLK: And still I rise
2016
0.0
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
as Self
2014
6.9
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
as Self
2013
10.0
Finding Your Roots
as Self - Host
2012
6.6
America: The Story of Us
as Self
2010
8.2
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Faces of America
2010
8.0
Looking for Lincoln
as Self - Host
2009
0.0
The Colbert Report
2005
6.9
A Place of Our Own
as Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
2004
0.0
America Beyond the Color Line
as Self - Host
2004
6.0
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
as Self
2003
6.1
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Wonders of the African World
as Host
1999
0.0
Leaving Cleaver
as Self
1999
0.0
The View
as Self - Guest
1997
4.3
Color Adjustment
as Self
1992
6.9
The Simpsons
as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
1989
8.0
Great Railway Journeys
as Self - Presenter
1980
7.0