Born 1950 (age 75) · Keyser, West Virginia, USA
Appears in 45 titles

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.

Filmography

13th
7.9
13th
2016
as Self
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
7.0
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014
as Self
Color Adjustment
6.9
Color Adjustment
1992
as Self
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
John Lewis: Good Trouble
4.1
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
as Self
Birth of a Movement
6.4
Birth of a Movement
2017
as Self
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Not Black Enough
7.8
Not Black Enough
2017
as Self
A Place of Our Own
9.0
A Place of Our Own
2004
as Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
America's Library
America's Library
2018
as Self
Looking for Lincoln
Looking for Lincoln
2009
as Self - Host
The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address
2025
as Self
Leaving Cleaver
Leaving Cleaver
1999
as Self
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019
as Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker