Acting credits
39
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 20Series: 23Crew credits: 19
TMDB ID: 1236595
IMDb ID: nm1326945
Known for: Acting
Born: September 16, 1950
Age: 76
Place of birth: Keyser, West Virginia, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1980 - 2026
Years active: 47
Average TMDB rating: 6.58
Wikidata: Q561458
Also known as
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. • Skip Gates • Skip Gates, Jr. • Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Other jobs
Executive Producer (12)Writer (6)Creator (1)
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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Movies
Movie credits linked with Henry Louis Gates, Jr..
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
as Self
2026 Movie
The Gettysburg Address
as Self
2025 Movie
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
as Himself
2024 Movie
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
as Self
2024 Movie
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
as Self
2022 Movie
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
Executive Producer
2021 Movie
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Executive Producer
2021 Movie
John Lewis: Good Trouble
as Self
2020 Movie
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
as Self
2019 Movie
America's Library
as Self
2018 Movie
Not Black Enough
as Self
2017 Movie
Birth of a Movement
as Self
2017 Movie
13th
as Self
2016 Movie
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
as Self
2014 Movie
Looking for Lincoln
as Self - Host
2009 Movie
A Place of Our Own
as Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
2004 Movie
Let the Church Say, Amen
Executive Producer
2003 Movie
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
as Self
2003 Movie
Leaving Cleaver
as Self
1999 Movie
Color Adjustment
as Self
1992 Movie
Series
Series credits linked with Henry Louis Gates, Jr..
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
as Self - Host • 4 eps
2026 Series
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
as Self - Host • 4 eps
2025 Series
Gospel
as Self • 4 eps
2024 Series
Making Black America
4 eps
2022 Series
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
as Self - Host • 2 eps
2021 Series
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
as Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates) • 2 eps
2020 Series
Watchmen
as Skip Gates • 2 eps
2019 Series
Who Killed Malcolm X?
Executive Producer • 6 eps
2019 Series
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
as Self - Host • 4 eps
2019 Series
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
as Self • 1 eps
2019 Series
Africa's Great Civilizations
as Self - Presenter • 6 eps
2017 Series
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
as Self - Presenter • 4 eps
2016 Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self • 1 eps
2015 Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self • 1 eps
2014 Series
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
as Self • 6 eps
2013 Series
Finding Your Roots
as Self - Host • 127 eps
2012 Series
America: The Story of Us
as Self • 5 eps
2010 Series
The Colbert Report
1 eps
2005 Series
America Beyond the Color Line
as Self - Host • 4 eps
2004 Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2003 Series
The View
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
1997 Series
The Simpsons
as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice) • 1 eps
1989 Series
Great Railway Journeys
as Self - Presenter • 1 eps
1980 Series