
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 16, 1950
- Birthplace
- Keyser, West Virginia, USA
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.
Filmography

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

The Gettysburg Address 2025
as Self

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

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

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches 2022
as Self, Executive Producer

Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are) 2021
Executive Producer

Black Art: In the Absence of Light 2021
Executive Producer

John Lewis: Good Trouble 2020
as Self

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War 2019
as Self, Executive Producer, Writer
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America 2019
as Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker

America's Library 2018
as Self

Not Black Enough 2017
as Self

Birth of a Movement 2017
as Self

13th 2016
as Self

Nas: Time Is Illmatic 2014
as Self

Looking for Lincoln 2009
as Self - Host, Executive Producer, Writer

A Place of Our Own 2004
as Self (as Henry Louis Gates)

Let the Church Say, Amen 2003
Executive Producer

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property 2003
as Self

Leaving Cleaver 1999
as Self, Writer

Color Adjustment 1992
as Self
Credits from TMDB.