Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Actor · Executive Producer · Writer · Creator
Born Sep 16, 1950 · Keyser, West Virginia, USA
Active 1989–present
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…
Filmography
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History (2026) — Executive ProducerThe Simpsons (1989) — Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)Watchmen (2019) — Skip GatesWho Killed Malcolm X? (2019) — Executive ProducerThe African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2013) — CreatorGospel (2024) — Executive Producer · WriterBlack America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (2016) — WriterFinding Your Roots (2012) — Writer · Executive ProducerAfrica's Great Civilizations (2017) — WriterBlack Art: In the Absence of Light (2021) — Executive ProducerFaces of America (2010)America Beyond the Color Line (2004) — WriterReconstruction: America After the Civil War (2019) — Executive Producer · CreatorLet the Church Say, Amen (2003) — Executive ProducerReconstruction: America After the Civil War (2019) — Executive Producer · WriterMaking Black America (2022) — Executive Producer · WriterFrederick Douglass: In Five Speeches (2022) — Executive ProducerCivil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are) (2021) — Executive ProducerBlack America since MLK: And still I rise (2016)Wonders of the African World (1999) — Host · WriterLooking for Lincoln (2009) — Executive Producer · WriterLeaving Cleaver (1999) — WriterThe Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song (2021) — Executive ProducerGreat Migrations: A People on the Move (2025) — Executive Producer