Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Known for
Acting
Born
September 16, 1950 (age 76)
Birthplace
Keyser, West Virginia, USA
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.
Best known work
The Simpsons
1989
Watchmen
2019
13th
2016
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Colbert Report
2005
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The View
1997
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014
Who Killed Malcolm X?
2019Filmography
2026
2026
2025
The Gettysburg Addressas Self
2025
2024
2024
2024
2022
2022
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speechesas Self, Executive Producer
2021
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)Executive Producer
2021
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our SongTVas Self - Host (2 episodes), Executive Producer
2021
Black Art: In the Absence of LightExecutive Producer
2020
John Lewis: Good Troubleas Self
2020
America's Great Divide: From Obama to TrumpTVas Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates) (2 episodes)
2019
2019
2019
Reconstruction: America After the Civil Waras Self, Executive Producer, Writer
2019
Reconstruction: America After the Civil WarTVas Self - Host (4 episodes), Executive Producer, Creator
2019
2019
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering Americaas Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
2018
America's Libraryas Self
2017
Not Black Enoughas Self
2017
2017
Birth of a Movementas Self
2016