Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Personal Info

Birthday

September 16, 1950

(74 years old)

Place of Birth

Keyser, West Virginia, USA

Also Known As

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr.

Skip Gates

Skip 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

The Simpsons

Watchmen

Wonders of the African World

Filmography

2025
The Gettysburg Address
as Self
2024
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
as Himself
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
as Self
2022
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
as Self
2020
John Lewis: Good Trouble
as Self
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
Birth of a Movement
as Self
2016
13th
as Self
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
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
as Self
1999
Leaving Cleaver
as Self
1992
Color Adjustment
as Self