Acting credits
38
Established
Large and steady acting portfolio.
Actor
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Acting
Career Snapshot
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0.3
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Movies: 20Series: 22Crew credits: 19
TMDB ID: 1236595
IMDb ID: nm1326945
Known for: Acting
Born: September 16, 1950
Age: 75
Place of birth: Keyser, West Virginia, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1980 - 2026
Years active: 47
Average TMDB rating: 6.77
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
Movies
Movie credits linked with Henry Louis Gates, Jr..
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
6.0
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
as Self
2022 Movie
4.0
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
Executive Producer
2021 Movie
6.9
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
Executive Producer
2021 Movie
4.1
John Lewis: Good Trouble
as Self
2020 Movie
7.0
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
as Self
2019 Movie
America's Library
as Self
2018 Movie
7.8
Not Black Enough
as Self
2017 Movie
6.4
Birth of a Movement
as Self
2017 Movie
7.9
13th
as Self
2016 Movie
Black America since MLK: And still I rise
2016 Movie
6.9
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
5.5
Let the Church Say, Amen
Executive Producer
2003 Movie
6.1
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
as Self
2003 Movie
Leaving Cleaver
as Self
1999 Movie
6.9
Color Adjustment
as Self
1992 Movie
Series
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
10.0
Gospel
as Self • 4 eps
2024 Series
6.0
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
7.6
Watchmen
as Skip Gates • 2 eps
2019 Series
7.2
Who Killed Malcolm X?
Executive Producer • 6 eps
2019 Series
7.0
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
as Self - Host • 4 eps
2019 Series
3.3
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
as Self • 1 eps
2019 Series
8.0
Africa's Great Civilizations
as Self - Presenter • 6 eps
2017 Series
9.0
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
as Self - Presenter • 4 eps
2016 Series
6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self • 1 eps
2015 Series
5.9
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self • 1 eps
2014 Series
10.0
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
as Self • 6 eps
2013 Series
6.2
Finding Your Roots
as Self - Host • 126 eps
2012 Series
8.2
America: The Story of Us
as Self • 5 eps
2010 Series
6.9
The Colbert Report
1 eps
2005 Series
6.0
America Beyond the Color Line
as Self - Host • 4 eps
2004 Series
4.3
The View
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
1997 Series
8.0
The Simpsons
as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice) • 1 eps
1989 Series
7.0
Great Railway Journeys
as Self - Presenter • 1 eps
1980 Series