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The Simpsons
1989· TV Series
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
September 16, 1950(75)
Place of Birth
Keyser, West Virginia, USA
Also Known As
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. Skip GatesSkip Gates, Jr.Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Acting
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
5.9
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014· TV Series
5.9
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014· TV Series
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015· TV Series
4.4
The View
1997· TV Series
6.9
The Colbert Report
2005· TV Series
6.2
Finding Your Roots
2012· TV Series
7.6
Watchmen
2019· TV Series
3.3
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019· TV Series
8.2
America: The Story of Us
2010· TV Series
7.9
13th
2016
7.5
America Beyond the Color Line
2004· TV Series
Filmography
- 2026TVBlack and Jewish America: An Interwoven Historyas Self - Host
- 2025MovieThe Gettysburg Addressas Self
- 2025TVGreat Migrations: A People on the Moveas Self - Host
- 2024MovieHenry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of Americaas Himself
- 2024TVGospelas Self
- 2024MovieGospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.as Self
- 2022TVMaking Black America
- 2022MovieFrederick Douglass: In Five Speechesas Self
- 2021TVThe Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Songas Self - Host
- 2020MovieJohn Lewis: Good Troubleas Self
- 2020TVAmerica's Great Divide: From Obama to Trumpas Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
- 2019TVWatchmenas Skip Gates
- 2019MovieReconstruction: America After the Civil Waras Self
- 2019TVReconstruction: America After the Civil Waras Self - Host
- 2019TVToday with Jenna & Sheinelleas Self
- 2018MovieAmerica's Libraryas Self
- 2017MovieNot Black Enoughas Self
- 2017TVAfrica's Great Civilizationsas Self - Presenter
- 2017MovieBirth of a Movementas Self
- 2016TVBlack America Since MLK: And Still I Riseas Self - Presenter
- 2016Movie13thas Self
- 2016MovieBlack America since MLK: And still I rise
- 2015TVThe Late Show with Stephen Colbertas Self
- 2014MovieNas: Time Is Illmaticas Self
- 2014TVThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonas Self
- 2014TVThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonas Self - Guest
- 2013TVThe African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.as Self
- 2013TVThe African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- 2012TVFinding Your Rootsas Self - Host
- 2010TVAmerica: The Story of Usas Self
- 2009MovieLooking for Lincolnas Self - Host
- 2005TVThe Colbert Report
- 2004MovieA Place of Our Ownas Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
- 2004TVAmerica Beyond the Color Lineas Self - Host
- 2003MovieNat Turner: A Troublesome Propertyas Self
- 1999MovieLeaving Cleaveras Self
- 1997TVThe Viewas Self - Guest
- 1992MovieColor Adjustmentas Self
- 1989TVThe Simpsonsas Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
- 1980TVGreat Railway Journeysas Self - Presenter