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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Actor, Producer, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn September 16, 1950 (75 years)
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

  • Finding Your Roots
  • Who Killed Malcolm X?
  • The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
  • Africa's Great Civilizations
  • Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
  • Black Art: In the Absence of Light
  • The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This is Our Song
  • Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
  • Faces of America
  • African American Lives 2
  • Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
  • GOSPEL with Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Filmography

2022
Making Black America with Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. (TV Series)
2019
Watchmen (TV Series) · as Skip Gates
2019
Railroad Ties · as Cast
2017
Through the Fire: The Legacy of Barack Obama · as Cast
2010
Faces of America (TV Series)
2005
The Colbert Report (TV Series)
1994
Great Railway Journeys of Europe (TV Series) · as Presenter
1989
The Simpsons (TV Series) · as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)

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