Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 16, 1950 (age 76)
Place of Birth
Keyser, West Virginia, USA
Also Known As
- Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr.
- Skip Gates
- Skip Gates, Jr.
- Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr
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 - Movies
The Gettysburg Address
as Self
13th
as Self
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
as Self
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
as Self
John Lewis: Good Trouble
as Self
Color Adjustment
as Self
Birth of a Movement
as Self
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
as Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
as Self
Black America since MLK: And still I rise
Known For - TV Shows
The Simpsons
as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
The Colbert Report
The View
as Self - Guest
Finding Your Roots
as Self - Host
Watchmen
as Skip Gates
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
as Self
America: The Story of Us
as Self