Skip 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.
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- Born:
- Sep 16, 1950 In Keyser, West Virginia, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 33
- First Appeared:
- In the series Great Railway Journeys 1980-10-23
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Gettysburg Address 2025-11-19
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Gettysburg Address | Self | 2025-11-19 |
| Movie | Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Self | 2024-02-09 |
| Series | Gospel | Self | 2024-02-12 |
| Movie | Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches | Self | 2022-02-23 |
| Series | Making Black America | 2022-10-04 | |
| Series | The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song | Self - Host | 2021-02-16 |
| Movie | Frontline: America's Great Divide | Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates) | 2020-01-13 |
| Movie | John Lewis: Good Trouble | Self | 2020-07-03 |
| Series | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War | Self - Host | 2019-04-09 |
| Series | Watchmen | Skip Gates | 2019-10-20 |
| Movie | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War | Self | 2019-04-09 |
| Movie | America's Library | Self | 2018-12-31 |
| Movie | Birth of a Movement | Self | 2017-02-06 |
| Series | Africa's Great Civilizations | Self - Presenter | 2017-02-27 |
| Movie | Not Black Enough | Self | 2017-04-28 |
| Movie | Black America since MLK: And still I rise | 2016-10-01 | |
| Movie | 13th | Self | 2016-10-07 |
| Series | Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise | Self - Presenter | 2016-11-15 |
| Movie | Nas: Time Is Illmatic | Himself | 2014-04-04 |
| Series | Finding Your Roots | Self - Host | 2012-03-24 |
| Series | Faces of America | 2010-02-10 | |
| Series | America: The Story of Us | Self | 2010-04-25 |
| Movie | Looking for Lincoln | Self - Host | 2009-02-11 |
| Series | The Colbert Report | Unknown | 2005-10-17 |
| Series | America Beyond the Color Line | Self - Host | 2004-02-03 |
| Movie | A Place of Our Own | Self (as Henry Louis Gates) | 2004-02-11 |
| Movie | Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property | Self | 2003-02-16 |
| Movie | Leaving Cleaver | Self | 1999-01-01 |
| Series | Wonders of the African World | Host | 1999-10-25 |
| Series | The View | Self - Guest | 1997-08-11 |
| Movie | Color Adjustment | Self | 1992-01-29 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice) | 1989-12-17 |
| Series | Great Railway Journeys | Self - Presenter | 1980-10-23 |