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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Also Known As: Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. , Skip Gates, Skip Gates, Jr.
Birth Date
September 16, 1950
(76 years old)
Place of Birth
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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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015 • 1 episode
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014 • 1 episode
The Simpsons
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
1989 • 1 episode
The View
Self - Guest
1997 • 1 episode
The Colbert Report
2005 • 1 episode
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003 • 1 episode
Finding Your Roots
Self - Host
2012 • 127 episodes
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
Self
2019 • 1 episode
Watchmen
Skip Gates
2019 • 2 episodes
America: The Story of Us
Self
2010 • 5 episodes
Gospel
Self
2024 • 4 episodes
13th
Self
2016
America Beyond the Color Line
Self - Host
2004 • 4 episodes
Great Railway Journeys
Self - Presenter
1980 • 1 episode
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
2020 • 2 episodes
The Gettysburg Address
Self
2025
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Self
2014
Color Adjustment
Self
1992
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
Self - Presenter
2016 • 4 episodes
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Self
2013 • 6 episodes