Person Details

Birthday: 1950-09-16 01:13:01

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Keyser, West Virginia, USA

Homepage:

Movie Involvements: 24

TV Involvements: 24


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Finding Your Roots
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6

Finding Your Roots

(2012) Self - Host
Watchmen
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8

Watchmen

(2019) Skip Gates
13th
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8

13th

(2016) Self
Frontline: America's Great Divide
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8

Frontline: America's Great Divide

(2020) Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
America: The Story of Us
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8
Birth of a Movement
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6

Birth of a Movement

(2017) Self
John Lewis: Good Trouble
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5
America Beyond the Color Line
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6

America Beyond the Color Line

(2004) Self - Host

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 Self
Self
2022 N/A
Self
2021 Self - Host
2020 Self
Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
2019 Skip Gates
Self - Host
Self
2018 Self
2017 Self
Self - Presenter
Self
2016 Self - Presenter
Self
2015 Self
2014 Himself
2012 Self - Host
2010 Self
N/A
2009 Self - Host
2005 N/A
2004 Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
Self - Host
2003 Self
1999 Host
Self
1997 Self - Guest
1992 Self
1989 Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
1980 Self - Presenter
N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Writing

Creator


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