Actor
Paul Bates
42 credited titles on WatchWise
Paul Bates is an American actor. He has played minor roles in True Romance, The Preacher's Wife, Mr. Wonderful, 8 Mile, The Wayans Bros, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and Bad Teacher. He is known for playing Oha in the 1988 film Coming to America starring Eddie Murphy.
Paul Bates in one minute
Commercial performance
Associated lifetime gross
$97M
Combined reported budget
$53M
Gross / budget
1.8x
Bankability Index
22 / 100
All figures are associated, not attributed — box-office numbers are sourced from TMDB and Wikipedia (reused under CC BY-SA), shown in US$, and weighted by billing prominence. Coverage varies by title; figures are estimates, not audited trade data.
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