Biography

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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7.5

1993

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, wh...

True Romance

1993 Action Crime

5.1

1992

A Southern librarian puts excitement in her life with a found murder weapon and a false confession....

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag

1992 Comedy Thriller

5.733

1987

Young Danny is following his rich girlfriend's family to the Caribbean. But suddenly he simply must ...

Hot Pursuit

1987 Comedy

4.8

1993

Harry Stone always dreamed of making "The Great American Movie." Instead he made The Pickle - a teen...

The Pickle

1993 Comedy Drama

2.3

1996

A small-time hood, left for dead after double-crossing drug dealers, is taken in by a monastery and ...

Paper Dragons

1996

7.505

1986

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri...

Hannah and Her Sisters

1986 Comedy Drama

5.56

1995

Fresh to Las Vegas with no connections, Nomi Malone takes a job as an exotic dancer. Her talents are...

Showgirls

1995 Drama

6.8

2010

A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then h...

Hesher

2010 Drama

5.787

1990

A bitter ad executive, who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution, wh...

Crazy People

1990 Comedy Romance

0

2001

A struggling Hollywood writer takes a job as a driver for a cursing, cantankerous old British actres...

Breathing Hard

2001

7.135

2002

For Jimmy Smith, Jr., life is a daily fight just to keep hope alive. Feeding his dreams in Detroit's...

8 Mile

2002 Drama Music

6.885

2022

Harry Haft is a boxer who fought fellow prisoners in the concentration camps to survive. Haunted by ...

The Survivor

2022 History Action

6

1985

Theseus has defeated Hippolyta in battle, and now claims her as his bride. But before the nuptials b...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1985

4

1984

The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York of a drug lord and his gan...

Exterminator 2

1984 Action Crime

4.875

1996

In 1945, the world of baseball is divided between the Majors and the Negro Leagues - but the time ha...

Soul of the Game

1996 History Drama

0

1998

Retired MI6 agent Steven March is called back into action by his former employers. His task is to as...

March in Windy City

1998 Comedy Thriller

5.596

2011

A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job and her students is forced to return to ...

Bad Teacher

2011 Comedy

6.464

1999

In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by...

Instinct

1999 Drama Thriller

6.6

2007

Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey per...

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

2007 Comedy Music

4.4

1983

Lori Anderson is trying to deal with the recent tragedy of her father's death. As Lori's mother move...

Somewhere, Tomorrow

1983 Fantasy Drama

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1993

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1987

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1993

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1996

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1986

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1995

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2010

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2002

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1996

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2011

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1999

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2007

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1983