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Jon-Paul Gates

Jon-Paul Gates

Jon-Paul Gates (born March 1980) is an actor who has starred in 96 feature films, predominantly playing the antagonist. Was born in Greenford, Middlesex under the name of Jon Morrey. He spent most of his childhood in a village near Doncaster, South Yorkshire and aspired to becoming a professional footballer before his career was cut short through injury and so decided on a career "treading the boards" instead.

He got his first break starring as Allan Hindle in the BBC's soap, Eldorado. Due to the show's unpopularity, he changed his professional name to Jon-Paul Gates in 1994. After various short films and a Channel 4 TV series, Focus North, he starred in his first feature film Cold Fish in 1999, playing the lead role of Alex. In 2001, he secured lead roles in Palm Tree's The Hawk & the Dove and played the antagonist Ida in Winter Warrior; which entered the top 10 DVD films in Russia in 2004. From 2002 to 2006 he accumulated more films in Europe; The Prodigal, Red Rose, Axe Raiders before trying his luck in the USA. After getting his big break in vampire flick Revamped, he starred in The Asylum's Dragon, with Gary Busey in Beyond the Ring and Danny Trejo in Dark Games. Travelling back and forth, he played the evil priest opposite Jeff Fahey and Martin Kove in Messages, Peter in Carmen's Kiss with Hugo Speer and Bruce Payne. Gates has also worked with Bruce Payne on Disturbance.

Jon-Paul Gates continues to work internationally portraying a variety of characters. After starring as Mr. Draper in Dance Star, he was the robotic over voices in Dark Side of Heaven; an alcoholic in Blood Forest,

a boxer turned gangster in Villains, a medium in the Haunted franchise, a lawyer with a coke habit in Essex Boys:Retribution, an aggressive prison guard opposite Patrick Kilpatrick in Borstal, playing Dracula himself in The Howling, Rudi Schneider in 2019 UK independent horror film The Haunting of Borley Rectory, and a journalist who perishes in the 1958 Munich Air Disaster with Brian Cox in Believe. From 2020 to 2022 he starred in 16 movies including Sarah's husband in They're Outside", Henry, a Cafe Owner, in "Sorority", an Italian speaking vampire in "Nest of Vampires", a horrible criminal, The Spitter, in "the Lockdown Hauntings", a zany quizmaster in "Graphic Desires and a unscrupulous priest in "Werewolf Cabal". In 2023 Gates played the role of Canine in Howard J. Ford's thriller, Escape.

Nightmare Hospital

2024

as The Man

Creep Encounters

2024

as Caretaker

The Doll Under the Stairs

2024

Escape

2024

The Haunted Studio

2024

as Gerald Tobin

Alice in Terrorland

2023

as The Mad Hatter

Nightmare on 34th Street

2023

Graphic Desires

2023

as Pub Quizmaster

Werewolf Cabal

2022

as Peter James

Boy in the Corner

2022

as John

Demons at Dawn

2022

as Randolph Fensterheim

Morris Men

2022

as Doyle

Sorority

2022

as Henry

Nest of Vampires

2021

as Mario DeNardo

Haunted 5: Phantoms

2020

as The Medium

Haunted 4: Demons

2020

as The Medium

Out of the Fight

2020

as Mark Phillips, Reporter

Pistolera

2020

as Prison guard

Enemy Within

2020

as Police officer

Love on Demand

2019

as Host

Scare Attraction

2019

as Clive

Doll Cemetery

2019

as Brendan

The Color of Your Skin

2019

as Host

The Dark Kingdom

2018

as Prince Favian

Haunted 3: Spirits

2018

as The Medium

Haunted 2: Apparitions

2018

as The Medium

Red Army Hooligans

2018

The Doll Master

2018

as Malik

The Howling

2017

as Rathbone

Knights of the Damned

2017

as Prince Favian

Hidden Valley the Awakening

2017

as Actor

Borstal

2017

as Len Forshaw

Hedda Gabler

2016

Into The Light

2016

as Pearson

100 Bullets

2016

as Steven Regan

Kicking Off

2015

as Radio Producer

Hooligans at War: North vs South

2015

as Scarface

The Power

2015

Tales of the Supernatural

2014

as Andrew

Number Runner

2014

as Harry Gillespie

Essex Boys Retribution

2013

as Jimmy Davies

I Know What I'm Doing

2013

as Thorpe

Believe

2013

as Journalist

Haunted

2013

as The Medium

Casting Couch

2013

as Bellagio

Got To Run

2011

as Jack Pratt

Sisters Grimm

2009

as Count Ludlow

Decadent Evil 2

2007

as Janos

Messages

2007

as Ojciec Randall

Dragon

2006

as Lord Artemir

The Winter Warrior

2003

as Ida

Cold Fish

2001

as Alex

Eldorado

1992

as Allan Hindle (as Jon Morrey)

The Highgate Vampyre

as Michael Delaney

Melodrive

as Car Dealer

Bring Me A Skin For Dancing In

as Andy Robinson

Big Cats

as Ichabod Price

Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla

as Hunchback

A Midwinter Night's Dream

as Acolyte

PAWsonel Preference

as Host