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Birthday: Sep 16, 1950
Place of Birth: Keyser, West Virginia, USA

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches Self 2022
Nas: Time Is Illmatic Self 2014
America's Library Self 2018
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Self 2024
Black America since MLK: And still I rise 2016
13th Self 2016
Birth of a Movement Self 2017
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property Self 2003
A Place of Our Own Self (as Henry Louis Gates) 2004
Color Adjustment Self 1992
Not Black Enough Self 2017
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War Self 2019
Looking for Lincoln Self - Host 2009
The Gettysburg Address Self 2025
Leaving Cleaver Self 1999
Frontline: America's Great Divide Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates) 2020
John Lewis: Good Trouble Self 2020
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America Himself 2024
Series Cast Year
The View Self - Guest 1997
The Colbert Report 2005
Faces of America 2010
Finding Your Roots Self - Host 2012
Wonders of the African World Host 1999
Africa's Great Civilizations Self - Presenter 2017
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise Self - Presenter 2016
America Beyond the Color Line Self - Host 2004
Gospel Self 2024
Making Black America 2022
America: The Story of Us Self 2010
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War Self - Host 2019
Great Railway Journeys Self - Presenter 1980
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Self 2015
Watchmen Skip Gates 2019
The Simpsons Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice) 1989
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Self - Host 2021
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Self 2014
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