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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Acting•Born September 16, 1950 (age 75)•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.

Known For

The Simpsons

The Simpsons

1989•TV Series•
8.0
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014•TV Series•
5.8
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

2014•TV Series•
5.8
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015•TV Series•
6.1
The Colbert Report

The Colbert Report

2005•TV Series•
6.9
The View

The View

1997•TV Series•
4.4
The View

The View

1997•TV Series•
4.4
Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2003•TV Series•
5.3

Filmography

2026
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause

as Self

Movie
2026
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History

as Self - Host

TV
2025
The Gettysburg Address

as Self

Movie
2025
Great Migrations: A People on the Move

as Self - Host

TV
2024
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America

as Himself

Movie
2024
Gospel

as Self

TV
2024
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

as Self

Movie
2022
Making Black America
TV
2022
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches

as Self

Movie
2021
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

as Self - Host

TV
2020
John Lewis: Good Trouble

as Self

Movie
2020
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump

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

TV
2019
Watchmen

as Skip Gates

TV
2019
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

as Self

Movie
2019
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

as Self - Host

TV
2019
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle

as Self

TV
2019
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America

as Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker

Movie
2018
America's Library

as Self

Movie
2017
Not Black Enough

as Self

Movie
2017
Africa's Great Civilizations

as Self - Presenter

TV
2017
Birth of a Movement

as Self

Movie
2016
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise

as Self - Presenter

TV
2016
13th

as Self

Movie
2016
Black America since MLK: And still I rise
Movie
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Self

TV
2014
Nas: Time Is Illmatic

as Self

Movie
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

as Self

TV
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

as Self - Guest

TV
2013
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

as Self

TV
2013
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
TV
2012
Finding Your Roots

as Self - Host

TV
2010
America: The Story of Us

as Self

TV
2010
Faces of America
TV
2009
Looking for Lincoln

as Self - Host

Movie
2005
The Colbert Report
TV
2004
A Place of Our Own

as Self (as Henry Louis Gates)

Movie
2004
America Beyond the Color Line

as Self - Host

TV
2003
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

as Self

Movie
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self - Guest

TV
1999
Wonders of the African World

as Host

TV
1999
Leaving Cleaver

as Self

Movie
1997
The View

as Self - Guest

TV
1997
The View

as Self

TV
1992
Color Adjustment

as Self

Movie
1989
The Simpsons

as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)

TV
1980
Great Railway Journeys

as Self - Presenter

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdaySeptember 16, 1950
Place of BirthKeyser, West Virginia, USA
Popularity0.6