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.
As actor 42
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Simpsons
1989
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The View
1997
The Colbert Report
2005
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Finding Your Roots
2012
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019
Watchmen
2019
America: The Story of Us
2010
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
2025
13th
2016
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
America Beyond the Color Line
2004
Great Railway Journeys
1980
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
2020
Birth of a Movement
2017
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026
Gospel
2024
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
2026
Faces of America
2010
Wonders of the African World
1999
Color Adjustment
1992
Africa's Great Civilizations
2017
Making Black America
2022
The Gettysburg Address
2025
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021
Not Black Enough
2017
A Place of Our Own
2004
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
2024
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2024
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
Leaving Cleaver
1999
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
America's Library
2018
Looking for Lincoln
2009
On the crew 20
Finding Your Roots
2012
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
2025
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
America Beyond the Color Line
2004
Who Killed Malcolm X?
2019
Gospel
2024
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
2026
Wonders of the African World
1999
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
2021
Africa's Great Civilizations
2017
Making Black America
2022
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021
Let the Church Say, Amen
2003
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
2021
Leaving Cleaver
1999
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
Looking for Lincoln
2009