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 CreditsFinding 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