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 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