Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- September 16, 1950, Keyser, West Virginia, USA
- Movies
- 21
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.
Best-Known Movies
7.8
13th
2016
6.9
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014
6.4
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
6.9
Color Adjustment
1992
4.7
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
4.6
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022
6.4
Birth of a Movement
2017
7.8
Not Black Enough
2017
6.0
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026
9.0
A Place of Our Own
2004
Filmography
| 2026 | W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause | Self |
| 2025 | The Gettysburg Address | Self |
| 2024 | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America | Himself |
| 2024 | Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Self |
| 2022 | Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches | Self |
| 2020 | John Lewis: Good Trouble | Self |
| 2019 | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War | Self |
| 2019 | Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America | Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker |
| 2018 | America's Library | Self |
| 2017 | Not Black Enough | Self |
| 2017 | Birth of a Movement | Self |
| 2016 | 13th | Self |
| 2014 | Nas: Time Is Illmatic | Self |
| 2009 | Looking for Lincoln | Self - Host |
| 2004 | A Place of Our Own | Self (as Henry Louis Gates) |
| 2003 | Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property | Self |
| 1999 | Leaving Cleaver | Self |
| 1992 | Color Adjustment | Self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2019 | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War | Writer |
| 2009 | Looking for Lincoln | Writer |
| 1999 | Leaving Cleaver | Writer |
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