HJ
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Actor, Producer, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn September 16, 1950 (75 years)
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
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Filmography
| 2022 | |
| 2019 | Watchmen (TV Series) · as Skip Gates |
| 2019 | Railroad Ties · as Cast |
| 2017 | |
| 2010 | Faces of America (TV Series) |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report (TV Series) |
| 1989 | The Simpsons (TV Series) · as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice) |
| 2025 | The Gettysburg Address · as Self |
| 2025 | Great Migrations: A People on the Move (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 2024 | GOSPEL with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2024 | |
| 2023 | 88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards · as Self - Host |
| 2023 | Jeopardy! Masters (TV Series) · as Self - Clue Giver |
| 2023 | America in Black (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2022 | Making Black America: Through the Grapevine (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2022 | Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches · as Self |
| 2021 | The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This is Our Song (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 2020 | The ReidOut (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2020 | John Lewis: Good Trouble · as Self |
| 2020 | America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) (as Henry Louis Gates) |
| 2019 | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 2018 | America's Library · as Self |
| 2018 | To Dine For with Kate Sullivan (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2018 | Poetry In America (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2017 | Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2017 | Not Black Enough · as Self |
| 2017 | Ken Burns: America's Storyteller · as Self - Historian |
| 2017 | Africa's Great Civilizations (TV Series) · as Self - Presenter |
| 2017 | Birth of a Movement · as Self |
| 2016 | Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (TV Series) · as Self - Presenter |
| 2016 | 13th · as Self |
| 2016 | Sunday Today with Willie Geist (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | Nas: Time Is Illmatic · as Self |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2013 | The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2013 | The Real Daytime (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2013 | Mankind Decoded (TV Series) · as Self - Harvard University |
| 2012 | Mankind: The Story of All of Us (TV Series) · as Self - Harvard University |
| 2012 | Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2012 | Finding Your Roots (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 2012 | CBS Mornings (TV Series) · as Self - Harvard Professor |
| 2010 | Overheard (TV Series) · as Self - Interviewee |
| 2010 | America: The Story of Us (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2009 | Looking for Lincoln · as Self - Host |
| 2008 | Black Magic (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2007 | Morning Joe (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2006 | African American Lives 2 (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | A Place of Our Own · as Self (as Henry Louis Gates) |
| 2004 | Tavis Smiley (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property · as Self |
| 2002 | America Beyond The Color Line (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 1999 | Independent Lens (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1997 | The View (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1996 | The Daily Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1992 | Color Adjustment · as Self |
| 1991 | Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1986 | The Oprah Winfrey Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1985 | American Masters (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1984 | Jeopardy! (TV Series) · as Self - Clue Giver |
| 1980 | Great Railway Journeys (TV Series) · as Self - Presenter |
| 1979 | CBS Sunday Morning With Jane Pauley (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1975 | Good Morning America (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1952 | Today (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2025 | Great Migrations: A People on the Move (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | GOSPEL with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Making Black America with Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are) · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This is Our Song (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Black Art: In the Absence of Light · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Who Killed Malcolm X? (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Africa's Great Civilizations (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2013 | The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2012 | Finding Your Roots (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Faces of America (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2009 | Looking for Lincoln · as Executive Producer |
| 2006 | African American Lives 2 (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Let the Church Say, Amen · as Executive Producer |
| 1999 | Independent Lens (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 1983 | Frontline (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | GOSPEL with Henry Louis Gates Jr. (TV Series) |
| 2022 | |
| 2019 | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (TV Series) |
| 2017 | Africa's Great Civilizations (TV Series) |
| 2016 | Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (TV Series) |
| 2013 | The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (TV Series) |
| 2012 | Finding Your Roots (TV Series) |
| 2010 | Faces of America (TV Series) |
| 2009 | |
| 2006 | African American Lives 2 (TV Series) |
| 2002 | America Beyond The Color Line (TV Series) |
| 1983 | Frontline (TV Series) |
| 2024 | GOSPEL special companion concert with Henry Louis Gates Jr. · as Created By |