Jon-Paul Gates (born March 1980) is an actor[1] who has starred in 96 feature films, predominantly playing the antagonist.
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.
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.
After starring as Mr. Draper in Dance Star, he was the robotic over voices in Dark Side of Heaven; an alcoholic in Blood Forest, [2] a boxer turned gangster in Villains, a medium in the Haunted franchise,[3] 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.