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Henry Louis Gates

Henry Louis Gates

Actor, Producer, Writer

Born September 16, 1950 in Keyser, West Virginia, USA

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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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GOSPEL Official Trailer | PBS | Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Making Black America | Official Trailer | PBS

The Black Church | Official Trailer | PBS

Reconstruction: America After The Civil War | Trailer

Inside Look | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War | PBS

AFRICA'S GREAT CIVILIZATIONS | Trailer | PBS

BLACK AMERICA SINCE MLK: AND STILL I RISE | Black Lives Matter | PBS

Filmography

Actor

78

Type

Year

Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History Poster

Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History Mini-Series2026Self

Great Migrations: A People on the Move Poster

Great Migrations: A People on the Move TV Series2025Self

The 2025 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards Poster

The 2025 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards TV Special2025Self - Presenter

The Gettysburg Address Poster

The Gettysburg Address Documentary2025Self

We Heart Public Television! Poster

We Heart Public Television! TV Special2025Self

Gospel TV Series2024Self - Host

Gospel LIVE! Presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr. Poster

Gospel LIVE! Presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr. TV Special2024Self

GOSPEL special companion concert with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Poster

GOSPEL special companion concert with Henry Louis Gates Jr. TV Movie2024Self - Host

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America Poster

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America TV Movie2024Self

88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards TV Special2023Self - Host

America in Black Poster

America in Black TV Series2023Self

A Dream Delivered: The Lost Letters of Hawkins Wilson Short Film2022Self

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches Poster

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches Feature Film2022Self

Making Black America with Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. Poster

Making Black America with Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. TV Series2022Self

Making Black America: Through the Grapevine TV Series2022Self

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Poster

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song TV Series2021Self

The WikiTree Challenge Mini-Series2021Self

John Lewis: Good Trouble Poster

John Lewis: Good Trouble Documentary2020Self

Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years! Poster

Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years! TV Special2020Self

The ReidOut Poster

The ReidOut TV Series2020Self - Guest

Voice Arts® Awards Poster

Voice Arts® Awards TV Special2020

Black History in Two Minutes (or so) Poster

Black History in Two Minutes (or so) TV Series2019Self - Host

Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America Poster

Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America Documentary2019Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker

Railroad Ties Poster

Railroad Ties Short Film2019

Reconstruction: America after The Civil War Poster

Reconstruction: America after The Civil War Mini-Series2019Self - Host

Watchmen Poster

Watchmen TV Series2019Skip Gates

America's Library Poster

America's Library Short Film2018Self

Detroit: Comeback City Poster

Detroit: Comeback City Documentary2018Self - Harvard Professor

Africa's Great Civilizations Poster

Africa's Great Civilizations Mini-Series2017Self - Presenter

Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings Poster

Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings TV Series2017Self

Ken Burns: America's Storyteller Poster

Ken Burns: America's Storyteller Documentary2017Self - Historian

Through the Fire: The Legacy of Barack Obama Poster

Through the Fire: The Legacy of Barack Obama Documentary2017

13th Documentary2016Self - Professor of History, Harvard University

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise Poster

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise Mini-Series2016Host - Narrator

Sunday Today with Willie Geist Poster

Sunday Today with Willie Geist TV Series2016Self - Guest

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Poster

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert TV Series2015Self

12 Years a Slave: A Historical Portrait Poster

12 Years a Slave: A Historical Portrait Documentary2014Self - Professor, Harvard University

Late Night with Seth Meyers Poster

Late Night with Seth Meyers TV Series2014Self

Nas: Time Is Illmatic Poster

Nas: Time Is Illmatic Documentary2014Self

The Hip-Hop Fellow Poster

The Hip-Hop Fellow Documentary2014Self

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Poster

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon TV Series2014Self

Mankind Decoded Poster

Mankind Decoded TV Series2013Self - Harvard University

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Poster

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Mini-Series2013Self - Host and Narrator

The Real Poster

The Real TV Series2013Self

CBS This Morning Poster

CBS This Morning TV Series2012Self - Harvard Professor

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Poster

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. TV Series2012Self - Host

Mankind the Story of All of Us Poster

Mankind the Story of All of Us Mini-Series2012Self - Harvard University

Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell Poster

Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell TV Series2012Self - Guest

Black in Latin America Poster

Black in Latin America TV Series2011Self - Host

America: The Story of the US Poster

America: The Story of the US Mini-Series2010Self

Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Poster

Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates Jr. TV Series2010Self - Host

Overheard Poster

Overheard TV Series2010Self - Interviewee

Reflections of Us Poster

Reflections of Us Short Film2010Self

Looking for Lincoln Poster

Looking for Lincoln TV Movie2009Self

African American Lives Poster

African American Lives TV Series2008Self

Black Magic Poster

Black Magic Mini-Series2008Self

Morning Joe Poster

Morning Joe TV Series2007Self

Oprah's Roots: An African American Lives Special Documentary2007Self - Host

Taboo: The Controversy of Black/White 'Race Mixing' in America Documentary2005

The Colbert Report Poster

The Colbert Report TV Series2005Self - Guest

A Place of Our Own Poster

A Place of Our Own Documentary2004Self

Tavis Smiley Poster

Tavis Smiley TV Series2004Self

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property Poster

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property Documentary2003Self

America Beyond the Color Line with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Poster

America Beyond the Color Line with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Mini-Series2002Presenter

Independent Lens Poster

Independent Lens TV Series1999Self

Leaving Cleaver: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Remembers Eldridge Cleaver Poster

Leaving Cleaver: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Remembers Eldridge Cleaver Documentary1999Self - Host

Wonders of the African World with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Poster

Wonders of the African World with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Mini-Series1999Self - Host

The View Poster

The View TV Series1997Self

The Daily Show Poster

The Daily Show TV Series1996Self

Great Railway Journeys Poster

Great Railway Journeys TV Series1994Presenter

Color Adjustment Poster

Color Adjustment Documentary1992Self

Charlie Rose Poster

Charlie Rose TV Series1991Self - Guest

The Oprah Winfrey Show Poster

The Oprah Winfrey Show TV Series1986Self

American Masters Poster

American Masters TV Series1985Self

Jeopardy! Poster

Jeopardy! TV Series1984Self - Video Clue Presenter

CBS News Sunday Morning Poster

CBS News Sunday Morning TV Series1979Self

Good Morning America Poster

Good Morning America TV Series1975Self - Guest

Today TV Series1952Self - Guest

Producer

23

Type

Year

Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History Poster

Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History Mini-Series2026

Great Migrations: A People on the Move Poster

Great Migrations: A People on the Move TV Series2025

Gospel TV Series2024

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches Poster

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches Feature Film2022

Black Art: In the Absence of Light Poster

Black Art: In the Absence of Light Feature Film2021

Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are) Poster

Civil War (or, Who Do We Think We Are) Feature Film2021

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Poster

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song TV Series2021

Black History in Two Minutes (or so) Poster

Black History in Two Minutes (or so) TV Series2019

Who Killed Malcolm X? Poster

Who Killed Malcolm X? Mini-Series2019

Africa's Great Civilizations Poster

Africa's Great Civilizations Mini-Series2017

Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings Poster

Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings TV Series2017

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise Poster

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise Mini-Series2016

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Poster

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Mini-Series2013

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Poster

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. TV Series2012

Black in Latin America Poster

Black in Latin America TV Series2011

Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Poster

Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates Jr. TV Series2010

Looking for Lincoln Poster

Looking for Lincoln TV Movie2009

African American Lives Poster

African American Lives TV Series2008

Oprah's Roots: An African American Lives Special Documentary2007

Let the Church Say, Amen Poster

Let the Church Say, Amen Documentary2002

Independent Lens Poster

Independent Lens TV Series1999

Leaving Cleaver: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Remembers Eldridge Cleaver Poster

Leaving Cleaver: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Remembers Eldridge Cleaver Documentary1999

Frontline Poster

Frontline TV Series1983

Writer

15

Type

Year

Gospel TV Series2024

GOSPEL special companion concert with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Poster

GOSPEL special companion concert with Henry Louis Gates Jr. TV Movie2024

Reconstruction: America after The Civil War Poster

Reconstruction: America after The Civil War Mini-Series2019

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Poster

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Mini-Series2013

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Poster

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. TV Series2012

Black in Latin America Poster

Black in Latin America TV Series2011

Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Poster

Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates Jr. TV Series2010

Looking for Lincoln Poster

Looking for Lincoln TV Movie2009

African American Lives Poster

African American Lives TV Series2008

Oprah's Roots: An African American Lives Special Documentary2007

America Beyond the Color Line with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Poster

America Beyond the Color Line with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Mini-Series2002

Leaving Cleaver: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Remembers Eldridge Cleaver Poster

Leaving Cleaver: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Remembers Eldridge Cleaver Documentary1999

Wonders of the African World with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Poster

Wonders of the African World with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Mini-Series1999

Great Railway Journeys Poster

Great Railway Journeys TV Series1994

Frontline Poster

Frontline TV Series1983

Thanks

7

Type

Year

Muhammad Ali Poster

Muhammad Ali Documentary2021

Detroit Feature Film2017

Baadasssss Cinema Poster

Baadasssss Cinema Documentary2002

Amistad Feature Film1997

The Vernon Johns Story Poster

The Vernon Johns Story TV Movie1994

American Experience Poster

American Experience Mini-Series1988

Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest Poster

Eyes on the Prize III: We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest TV Series1987

Other Crew

7

Type

Year

12 Years a Slave Poster

12 Years a Slave Feature Film2013

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth Poster

Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth Documentary2013

The Loving Story Poster

The Loving Story Documentary2011

African American World Documentary2005

Boycott TV Movie2001

Independent Lens Poster

Independent Lens TV Series1999

704 Hauser Poster

704 Hauser Mini-Series1994

Director

1

Leaving Cleaver: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Remembers Eldridge Cleaver Poster

Leaving Cleaver: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Remembers Eldridge Cleaver Documentary1999

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