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.

KNOWN FOR

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2024
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2024
The Simpsons
2023
The View
2021
The Colbert Report
2008
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2026
Finding Your Roots
2012
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2025
Watchmen
2019
America: The Story of Us
2010
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
Wonders of the African World
1999

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
45
Writing
10
Producing
14
2026
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
as Self
2026
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
as Self - Host
2026
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2026
The View
as Self
2026
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2025
The Gettysburg Address
as Self
2025
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
as Self - Host
2025
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
as Self
2024
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
as Self
2024
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
as Himself
2024
Gospel
as Self
2024
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2024
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2023
The Simpsons
as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)
2022
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
as Self
2022
Making Black America
2021
The View
as Self - Guest
2021
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
as Self - Host
2020
John Lewis: Good Trouble
as Self
2020
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
as Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
2019
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
as Self
2019
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
as Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
2019
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
as Self - Host
2019
Watchmen
as Skip Gates
2018
America's Library
as Self
2017
Birth of a Movement
as Self
2017
Not Black Enough
as Self
2017
Africa's Great Civilizations
as Self - Presenter
2016
13th
as Self
2016
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
as Self - Presenter
2014
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
as Self
2013
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
as Self
2013
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2012
Finding Your Roots
as Self - Host
2010
Faces of America
2010
America: The Story of Us
as Self
2009
Looking for Lincoln
as Self - Host
2008
The Colbert Report
2004
A Place of Our Own
as Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
2004
America Beyond the Color Line
as Self - Host
2003
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
as Self
1999
Leaving Cleaver
as Self
1999
Wonders of the African World
as Host
1992
Color Adjustment
as Self
1980
Great Railway Journeys
as Self - Presenter