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 Gettysburg Address
Self
2025
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
Self - Host · (4 episodes)
2025
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
Himself
2024
Gospel
Self · (4 episodes)
2024
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self
2024
Making Black America
(4 episodes)
2022
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Self
2022
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
Self - Host · (2 episodes)
2021
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Self
2020
Frontline: America's Great Divide
Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
2020
Watchmen
Skip Gates · (2 episodes)
2019
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Self
2019
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Self - Host · (4 episodes)
2019
Today with Hoda & Jenna
Self · (1 episode)
2019
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
2019
America's Library
Self
2018
Not Black Enough
Self
2017
Africa's Great Civilizations
Self - Presenter · (6 episodes)
2017
Birth of a Movement
Self
2017
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
Self - Presenter · (4 episodes)
2016
13th
Self
2016
Black America since MLK: And still I rise
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self · (1 episode)
2015
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Self
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · (1 episode)
2014
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self · (6 episodes)
2013
Finding Your Roots
Self - Host · (116 episodes)
2012
America: The Story of Us
Self · (5 episodes)
2010
Faces of America
(4 episodes)
2010
Looking for Lincoln
Self - Host
2009
The Colbert Report
(1 episode)
2005
A Place of Our Own
Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
2004
America Beyond the Color Line
Self - Host · (4 episodes)
2004
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Self
2003
Wonders of the African World
Host · (6 episodes)
1999
Leaving Cleaver
Self
1999
The View
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1997
Color Adjustment
Self
1992
The Simpsons
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice) · (1 episode)
1989
Great Railway Journeys
Self - Presenter · (1 episode)
1980