Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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.
Known For

The Simpsons

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The View

The View

The Colbert Report

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
All Movies (19)
- W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause2026 · as Self
- The Gettysburg Address2025 · as Self
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America2024 · as Himself
- Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.2024 · as Self
- Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches2022 · as Self
- John Lewis: Good Trouble2020 · as Self
- Reconstruction: America After the Civil War2019 · as Self
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America2019 · as Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
- America's Library2018 · as Self
- Not Black Enough2017 · as Self
- Birth of a Movement2017 · as Self
- 13th2016 · as Self
- Black America since MLK: And still I rise2016
- Nas: Time Is Illmatic2014 · as Self
- Looking for Lincoln2009 · as Self - Host
- A Place of Our Own2004 · as Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
- Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property2003 · as Self
- Leaving Cleaver1999 · as Self
- Color Adjustment1992 · as Self
All TV Shows (27)
- Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History2026 · as Self - Host
- Great Migrations: A People on the Move2025 · as Self - Host
- Gospel2024 · as Self
- Making Black America2022
- The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song2021 · as Self - Host
- America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump2020 · as Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
- Watchmen2019 · as Skip Gates
- Reconstruction: America After the Civil War2019 · as Self - Host
- Today with Jenna & Sheinelle2019 · as Self
- Africa's Great Civilizations2017 · as Self - Presenter
- Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise2016 · as Self - Presenter
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon2014 · as Self - Guest
- The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.2013 · as Self
- The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.2013
- Finding Your Roots2012 · as Self - Host
- America: The Story of Us2010 · as Self
- Faces of America2010
- The Colbert Report2005
- America Beyond the Color Line2004 · as Self - Host
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self - Guest
- Wonders of the African World1999 · as Host
- The View1997 · as Self - Guest
- The View1997 · as Self
- The Simpsons1989 · as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
- Great Railway Journeys1980 · as Self - Presenter