Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1950-09-16 (74 years old)

Place of Birth Keyser, West Virginia, USA

Also Known As Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. , Skip Gates, Skip Gates, Jr.

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

Actor

2024
Gospel

as Self

2020
Frontline: America's Great Divide

as Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)

2019
Watchmen

as Skip Gates

2018
2017
2017
Africa's Great Civilizations

as Self - Presenter

2016
13th

as Self

2012
Finding Your Roots

as Self - Host

2009
Looking for Lincoln

as Self - Host

2004
A Place of Our Own

as Self (as Henry Louis Gates)

1999
1997
The View

as Self - Guest

1992
1989
The Simpsons

as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)

1980
Great Railway Journeys

as Self - Presenter

Producer

2024
Gospel

as Executive Producer

2022
2022
Making Black America

as Executive Producer

2021
2021
2019
Who Killed Malcolm X?

as Executive Producer

2012
Finding Your Roots

as Executive Producer

2009
Looking for Lincoln

as Executive Producer

2003
Let the Church Say, Amen

as Executive Producer