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.
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Commercial performance
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.
What drives the index
3.1x return · 38% of films profitable · trending up · little recent work. Weighted toward recent releases (a film counts half as much every 6 years) and toward titles they actually carried.
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Titles are ones WatchWise has catalogued so far — not necessarily a complete filmography.
