Henry Lewis
Henry Lewis is known for John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020).
Henry Leyva
Henry Leyva is known for Rio 2 (2014), Limetown (2015) and The Crossroads of History (2016).
Henry Lloyd-Hughes
Henry Lloyd-Hughes was born on August 11, 1985 in London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Marriage (2022), Mammals (2022) and Ragdoll (2021).
Henry Loevner
Henry Loevner is a director and writer, known for The End of Us (2021), Barking (2019) and Nest Egg (2019).
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored or co-authored twenty-four books and created twenty-one documentary films, including Wonders of the African World, African American Lives, Faces of America, Black in Latin America, Black America since MLK: And Still I Rise, Africa's Great Civilizations, and Finding Your Roots, his groundbreaking genealogy series now in its sixth season on PBS. His six-part PBS documentary series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (2013), which he wrote, executive produced, and hosted, earned the Emmy Award for Outstanding Historical Program-Long Form, as well as the Peabody Award, Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award, and N.A.A.C.P. Image Award. Professor Gates's latest project is the history series, Reconstruction: America after the Civil War (PBS, 2019), and the related books, Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow, with Tonya Bolden (Scholastic, 2019), and Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (Penguin Random House, 2019). Having written for such leading publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Time, Professor Gates serves as chairman of TheRoot.com, a daily online magazine he co-founded in 2008, and chair of the Creative Board of Fusion TV. He oversees the Oxford African American Studies Center, the first comprehensive scholarly online resource in the field, and has received grant funding to develop a Finding Your Roots curriculum to teach students science through genetics and genealogy. In 2012, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader, a collection of his writings edited by Abby Wolf, was published. The recipient of fifty-five honorary degrees and numerous prizes, Professor Gates was a member of the first class awarded "genius grants" by the MacArthur Foundation in 1981, and in 1998, he became the first African American scholar to be awarded the National Humanities Medal. He was named to Time's 25 Most Influential Americans list in 1997, to Ebony's Power 150 list in 2009, and to Ebony's Power 100 list in 2010 and 2012. He earned his B.A. in English Language and Literature, summa cum laude, from Yale University in 1973, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English Literature from Clare College at the University of Cambridge in 1979. In 2018, he was one of 15 alumni of African descent honored in the exhibition, Black Cantabs: History Makers, at the Cambridge University Library. Professor Gates has directed the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research-now the Hutchins Center-since arriving at Harvard in 1991, and during his first fifteen years on campus, he chaired the Department of Afro-American Studies as it expanded into the Department of African and African American Studies with a full-fledged doctoral program. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and serves on a wide array of boards, including the New York Public Library, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Aspen Institute, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Library of America, and the Brookings Institution. In 2017, the Organization of American States named Gates a Goodwill Ambassador for the Rights of People of African Descent in the Americas. His portrait, by Yuqi Wang, hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Henry Luk
Henry Luk is a producer and writer, known for The Dark Forest (2014), Road to Hell (2017) and Fist of the Dragon (2014).
Henry Lynch
Henry Lynch is known for The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019).
Henry Mah
He was born in Winnipeg MB and now makes his home in Vancouver, BC. He started doing stand-up comedy in 1989 and did open mic nights and small gigs around Vancouver. From 1993 until 2000 he worked as the opening act for a variety of other comics from Canada and the U.S. touring small towns in BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 1994 he took to learning the craft of acting and landed his first speaking role in 1996. In 2004, he wrote and starred in his own film, "No One Ever Suspects the Chinese Guy", a dark comedy about racism and ethnic erasure. He started and ran the Tuesday Night Actor's Drop In group from 2003 to 2007. The group still continues to this day under different organizers. He began teaching on camera audition and scene study in the fall of 2007 for a private acting school in Vancouver until the spring of 2011. He runs a weekly scene group called the Cold Read Work Out where weekly scene challenges are issued to encourage actors to write their own material. He teaches an on camera audition class called AuditionCraft 1 three times a year, and also gives 1 hour private acting lessons and does audition coachings.
Henry McGee
Henry McGee specialized in comedy and was best known for his 20 year-long association with Benny Hill, on whose show he appeared as announcer and straight man. The son of a Rolls-Royce engineer, McGee was educated at Stonyhurst. After National Service in the Royal Navy, he joined the Italia Conti Stage Academy for two years, then acted with repertory companies in England and Australia. He returned to England in the 1960's and enjoyed a prolific career on television, especially in comedies. His appearance as an upmarket conman who takes in Leonard Rossiter's Rigsby in The Perfect Gentleman (1975) was considered one of the highlights of the popular ITV sitcom, so much so that the storyline was recycled for the film version, Rising Damp (1980), when McGee's role was taken by Denholm Elliott. McGee was also recognized for being in the 'Sugar Puffs' breakfast cereal commercials on television alongside The Honey Monster. His hobbies were gliding and collecting old engravings. He left a million pounds in his will.
Henry McNab
Henry McNab is an actor, known for Grindsploitation 2: The Lost Reels (2016), The Three Sisters (2015) and The Gingerbread Men (2012).