
Acting
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Keyser, West Virginia, USABorn 1950 (75 years old)
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
Films
23
TV Shows
9
Crew Credits
Known For
40 Credits
The Simpsons
as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
1989

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2014

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015

The Colbert Report
2005

The View
as Self - Guest
1997

Finding Your Roots
as Self - Host
2012

Watchmen
as Skip Gates
2019

Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
as Self
2019

America: The Story of Us
as Self
2010

Great Railway Journeys
as Self - Presenter
1980

Color Adjustment
as Self
1992
Behind the Camera
9 Credits
Finding Your Roots
Writer
2012

America Beyond the Color Line
Writer
2004

Africa's Great Civilizations
Writer
2017

Gospel
Writer
2024

Making Black America
Writer
2022

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
Writer
2016

Leaving Cleaver
Writer
1999

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Writer
2019

Looking for Lincoln
Writer
2009