Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1950-09-16 (74 years old)
Place of Birth
Keyser, West Virginia, USA
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
Acting
(2025)
The Gettysburg Address
as Self
(2024)
(2024)
(2022)
(2020)
John Lewis: Good Trouble
as Self
(2020)
Frontline: America's Great Divide
as Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
(2019)
(2019)
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
as Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
(2018)
America's Library
as Self
(2017)
Not Black Enough
as Self
(2017)
Birth of a Movement
as Self
(2016)
13th
as Self
(2016)
(2014)
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
as Self
(2009)
Looking for Lincoln
as Self - Host
(2004)
A Place of Our Own
as Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
(2003)
(1999)
Leaving Cleaver
as Self
(1992)
Color Adjustment
as Self
Crew
(2022)
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Executive Producer
(2021)
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
Executive Producer
(2021)
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Executive Producer
(2019)
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
Executive Producer, Writer
(2009)
Looking for Lincoln
Writer, Executive Producer
(2003)
Let the Church Say, Amen
Executive Producer
(1999)
Leaving Cleaver
Writer