Portrait of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Acting

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.

Born: September 16, 1950

Place of Birth: Keyser, West Virginia, USA

Filmography

2024
Gospel

as Self

2020
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump

as Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)

2019
Watchmen

as Skip Gates

2017
2017
Africa's Great Civilizations

as Self - Presenter

2016
13th

as Self

2012
Finding Your Roots

as Self - Host

2009
Looking for Lincoln

as Self - Host

2004
A Place of Our Own

as Self (as Henry Louis Gates)

1999
1997
The View

as Self - Guest

1992
1989
The Simpsons

as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)

1980
Great Railway Journeys

as Self - Presenter