Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Birthday
1950/09/16 (74 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Keyser, West Virginia, USA
Also know as
Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. , Skip Gates, Skip Gates, Jr.
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.
Acting
(2022) Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
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(2014) Nas: Time Is Illmatic
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(2018) America's Library
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(2024) Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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(2016) Black America since MLK: And still I rise
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(2016) 13th
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(2017) Birth of a Movement
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(2003) Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
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(2004) A Place of Our Own
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(1992) Color Adjustment
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(2017) Not Black Enough
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(2019) Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
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(2009) Looking for Lincoln
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(2025) The Gettysburg Address
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(1999) Leaving Cleaver
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(2020) Frontline: America's Great Divide
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(2020) John Lewis: Good Trouble
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(2024) Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
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(1997) The View
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(2005) The Colbert Report
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(2010) Faces of America
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(2012) Finding Your Roots
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(1999) Wonders of the African World
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(2017) Africa's Great Civilizations
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(2016) Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
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(2004) America Beyond the Color Line
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(2024) Gospel
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(2022) Making Black America
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(2010) America: The Story of Us
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(2019) Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
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(1980) Great Railway Journeys
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(2015) The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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(2019) Watchmen
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(1989) The Simpsons
as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
(2021) The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
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(2014) The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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(2025) Great Migrations: A People on the Move
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(2019) Today with Hoda & Jenna
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