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.
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Filmography
all 44
self 33
Movies 24
TV Shows 20
Producer 4
Narrator 1
Self - Host
Gospel (2024)
TV
Self - Host
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2024)
Movie
Self
Making Black America (2022)
TV
Self
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (2022)
Movie
Executive Producer
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are) (2021)
Movie
Self - Host / Executive Producer
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song (2021)
TV
Executive Producer
Black Art: In the Absence of Light (2021)
Movie
Self
John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020)
Movie
6.45
Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
Frontline: America's Great Divide (2020)
Movie
Skip Gates
Watchmen (2019)
TV
6.69
Executive Producer
Who Killed Malcolm X? (2019)
TV
Actor
Railroad Ties (2019)
Movie
Self - Host
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (2019)
TV
Self - Host
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (2019)
Movie
Self
America's Library (2018)
Movie
Self - Harvard Professor
Detroit: Comeback City (2018)
Movie
Self
Not Black Enough (2017)
Movie
Self - Presenter
Africa's Great Civilizations (2017)
TV
Self
Birth of a Movement (2017)
Movie
Host - Narrator
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (2016)
TV
Self
13th (2016)
Movie
8
Self
The Gettysburg Address (2015)
Movie
Self
The Hip-Hop Fellow (2014)
Movie
Self
Nas: Time Is Illmatic (2014)
Movie
Self - host and narrator / Self - Host and Narrator
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2013)
TV
Self - Harvard University
Mankind: The Story of All of Us (2012)
TV
10
Self - Host / Self
Finding Your Roots (2012)
TV
Henry Louis Gates
America: The Story of Us (2010)
TV
Self - Host
Faces of America (2010)
TV
Self
Looking for Lincoln (2009)
Movie
Self
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (2008)
Movie
The Colbert Report (2005)
TV
6.27
Self
A Place of Our Own (2004)
Movie
Presenter
America Beyond the Color Line (2004)
TV
Executive Producer
Let the Church Say, Amen (2003)
Movie
Self
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003)
Movie
3.5
Self - Host
Wonders of the African World (1999)
TV
Self / Writer
Leaving Cleaver (1999)
Movie
Self - Guest
The View (1997)
TV
5.5
Self
Color Adjustment (1992)
Movie
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
The Simpsons (1989)
TV
6.75
Self - Presenter
Great Railway Journeys (1980)
TV
Self / Self - Host
African American Lives
TV
Black America since MLK: And still I rise
Movie
Ratings
Average 6.31
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2008
2016
2013
2024
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1950-09-16 (73 years old)
Birth PlaceKeyser, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesWest Virginia, United States of America
Also Known AsHenry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. , Skip Gates, Skip Gates, Jr.
AwardsLillian Smith Book Award, Jefferson Lecture, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, National Humanities Medal, Carl Sandburg Literary Award, Heartland Prize, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction, MacArthur Fellows Program, George Polk Award, American Book Awards
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