Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Birth Date
9/16/1950
Birth Place
Keyser, West Virginia, USA
Known For
Acting
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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.

Filmography

13th

Self

Color Adjustment

Self

Frontline: America's Great Divide

Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)

John Lewis: Good Trouble

Self

Let the Church Say, Amen

Executive Producer

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches

Self / Executive Producer

Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)

Executive Producer

Reconstruction: America After the Civil War

Self / Writer / Executive Producer

A Place of Our Own

Self (as Henry Louis Gates)

America's Library

Self

Black America since MLK: And still I rise