Actor profile

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

16th September 1950 Keyser, West Virginia, USA 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.

17 Movies 25 TV Shows 45 Credits

Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause poster

W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause 19th May 2026 as Self

The Gettysburg Address poster

The Gettysburg Address 19th November 2025 as Self

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America poster

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America 10th December 2024 as Himself

Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. poster

Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 9th February 2024 as Self

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches poster

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 23rd February 2022 as Self

John Lewis: Good Trouble poster

John Lewis: Good Trouble 3rd July 2020 as Self

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War poster

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War 9th April 2019 as Self

America's Library poster

America's Library 31st December 2018 as Self

Not Black Enough poster

Not Black Enough 28th April 2017 as Self

Birth of a Movement poster

Birth of a Movement 6th February 2017 as Self

13th poster

13th 7th October 2016 as Self

Nas: Time Is Illmatic poster

Nas: Time Is Illmatic 4th April 2014 as Self

Looking for Lincoln poster

Looking for Lincoln 11th February 2009 as Self - Host

A Place of Our Own poster

A Place of Our Own 11th February 2004 as Self (as Henry Louis Gates)

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property poster

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property 16th February 2003 as Self

Leaving Cleaver poster

Leaving Cleaver 1st January 1999 as Self

Color Adjustment poster

Color Adjustment 29th January 1992 as Self

Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History poster

Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History 3rd February 2026 as Self - Host

Great Migrations: A People on the Move poster

Great Migrations: A People on the Move 28th January 2025 as Self - Host

Gospel poster

Gospel 12th February 2024 as Self

Making Black America poster

Making Black America 4th October 2022

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song poster

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song 16th February 2021 as Self - Host

America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump poster

America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump 13th January 2020 as Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)

Watchmen poster

Watchmen 20th October 2019 as Skip Gates

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War poster

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War 9th April 2019 as Self - Host

Today with Jenna & Sheinelle poster

Today with Jenna & Sheinelle 8th April 2019 as Self

Africa's Great Civilizations poster

Africa's Great Civilizations 27th February 2017 as Self - Presenter

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise poster

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise 15th November 2016 as Self - Presenter

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert poster

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert 8th September 2015 as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon poster

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 17th February 2014 as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon poster

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 17th February 2014 as Self - Guest

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. poster

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 22nd October 2013 as Self

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. poster

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 22nd October 2013

Finding Your Roots poster

Finding Your Roots 24th March 2012 as Self - Host

America: The Story of Us poster

America: The Story of Us 25th April 2010 as Self

The Colbert Report poster

The Colbert Report 17th October 2005

America Beyond the Color Line poster

America Beyond the Color Line 3rd February 2004 as Self - Host

Jimmy Kimmel Live! poster

Jimmy Kimmel Live! 26th January 2003 as Self - Guest

The View poster

The View 11th August 1997 as Self - Guest

The View poster

The View 11th August 1997 as Self

The Simpsons poster

The Simpsons 17th December 1989 as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)

Great Railway Journeys poster

Great Railway Journeys 23rd October 1980 as Self - Presenter