Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Acting
- September 16, 1950 · Keyser, West Virginia, USA
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
Filmography
- W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause · Self
- Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History · Self, Executive producer
- The Gettysburg Address · Self
- Great Migrations: A People on the Move · Self, Executive producer
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America · Self
- Gospel · Self, Executive producer
- Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. · Self
- Making Black America · Executive producer, Writer
- Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches · Self, Executive producer
- Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are) · Executive producer
- The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song · Self, Executive producer
- Black Art: In the Absence of Light · Executive producer
- John Lewis: Good Trouble · Self
- America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump · Self
- Watchmen · Skip Gates
- Who Killed Malcolm X? · Executive producer
- Reconstruction: America After the Civil War · Self, Executive producer
- Reconstruction: America After the Civil War · Self, Executive producer
- Today with Jenna & Sheinelle · Self
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America · Self
- America's Library · Self
- Not Black Enough · Self
- Africa's Great Civilizations · Self, Writer
- Birth of a Movement · Self
- Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise · Self, Writer
- 13th · Self
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Nas: Time Is Illmatic · Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Self
- The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. · Self, Creator
- Finding Your Roots · Self, Writer
- America: The Story of Us · Self
- Faces of America
- Looking for Lincoln · Self, Executive producer
- The Colbert Report
- A Place of Our Own · Self
- America Beyond the Color Line · Self, Writer
- Let the Church Say, Amen · Executive producer
- Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property · Self
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! · Self
- Wonders of the African World · Host, Writer
- Leaving Cleaver · Self, Writer
- The View · Self
- Color Adjustment · Self
- The Simpsons · Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Voice)
- Great Railway Journeys · Self