Roscoe Ates
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1895-01-19
Day of Death
1962-03-01 (67 years old)
Place of Birth
Grange, Mississippi, USA
Roscoe Ates
Biography
From Wikipedia
Roscoe Ates (January 20, 1895 – March 1, 1962) was an American vaudeville performer, actor of stage and screen, comedian and musician who primarily was featured in western films and television. He was best known as western character Soapy Jones.
Acting
(1961)
The Ladies Man
as Pet Shop Owner
(1961)
The Silent Call
as Sid
(1958)
The Sheepman
as Town Loafer (uncredited)
(1957)
The Big Caper
as Falkenburg
(1956)
Come Next Spring
as Shorty Wilkins
(1955)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
as Wagon Driver
(1955)
Lucy Gallant
as Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
(1953)
The Stranger Wore a Gun
as Jake Hooper
(1953)
Those Redheads from Seattle
as Dan Taylor
(1952)
The Blazing Forest
as Beans
(1950)
Father's Wild Game
as Rancher
(1950)
Hills of Oklahoma
as Dismal - the Cook
(1948)
Inner Sanctum
as Willie
(1948)
Tornado Range
as Soapy Jones
(1948)
Check Your Guns
as Soapy Jones
(1948)
Thunder in the Pines
as Wheezer, Boomer's head logger
(1948)
The Hawk of Powder River
as Soapy Jones
(1948)
The Westward Trail
as Soapy Jones
(1948)
The Tioga Kid
as Soapy
(1947)
Black Hills
as Soapy Jones
(1947)
Shadow Valley
as Soapy Jones
(1947)
Wild Country
as Soapy Jones
(1947)
West to Glory
as Soapy Jones
(1947)
Range Beyond the Blue
as Soapy Jones
(1946)
Wild West
as Soapy Jones
(1946)
Tumbleweed Trail
as Soapy Jones
(1946)
Stars Over Texas
as Soapy Jones
(1946)
Down Missouri Way
as Pappy
(1946)
Driftin' River
as Soapy
(1946)
Colorado Serenade
as Soapy
(1944)
The Great Moment
as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
(1944)
Can't Help Singing
as Lemuel (uncredited)
(1942)
The Palm Beach Story
as Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club
(1942)
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
as Police Chief Dan Cady
(1941)
Ziegfeld Girl
as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)
(1941)
Bad Men of Missouri
as Lafe
(1941)
One Foot in Heaven
as George Reynolds (uncredited)
(1941)
Birth of the Blues
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
(1941)
She Knew All the Answers
as Gas Station Attendant
(1941)
Robin Hood of the Pecos
as Jailer Guffy
(1941)
Reg'lar Fellers
as Emory McQuade
(1941)
I'll Sell My Life
as Happy Hogan
(1940)
Chad Hanna
as Ike Wayfish
(1940)
Captain Caution
as Chips
(1940)
Untamed
as Bert Dillon
(1940)
I Want a Divorce
as Process Server
(1940)
Rancho Grande
as Ranch Hand
(1940)
The Cowboy from Sundown
as Deputy Gloomy Day
(1940)
You're Next!
as Mr. Tillson
(1939)
Gone with the Wind
as Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)
(1939)
Three Texas Steers
as Sheriff Brown
(1938)
Riders of the Black Hills
as Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)
(1938)
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith
(1938)
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Jim Blakely
(1937)
God's Country and the Woman
as Gander Hopkins
(1936)
Fair Exchange
as Elmer Goodge
(1935)
The People's Enemy
as Slip Laflin
(1935)
Why Pay Rent?
as Elmer Whipple
(1935)
On the Wagon
as Elmer
(1934)
Woman in the Dark
as Tommy Logan
(1934)
She Made Her Bed
as Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)
(1934)
Merry Wives of Reno
as The Trapper
(1934)
So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
as Elmer Whipple
(1934)
Dizzy & Daffy
as 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
(1933)
King Kong
as Press Photographer (uncredited)
(1933)
Alice in Wonderland
as Fish
(1933)
What! No Beer?
as Schultz
(1933)
Scarlet River
as Ulysses
(1933)
Lucky Devils
as Gabby
(1933)
Golden Harvest
as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
(1933)
The Past of Mary Holmes
as Bill-poster Klondike
(1933)
Signing 'em Up
as Himself
(1933)
The Cheyenne Kid
as Bush (as Rosco Ates)
(1932)
Freaks
as Roscoe
(1932)
Ladies of the Jury
as Andrew MacKaig
(1932)
The Rainbow Trail
as Ike Wilkins
(1932)
Hold 'Em Jail
as Slippery Sam Brown
(1932)
Young Bride
as Pool Room Bartender Mike
(1932)
Renegades of the West
as Dr. Henry Fawcett
(1932)
The Roadhouse Murder
as Edmund Joyce
(1932)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
as Self
(1932)
Come on Danger!
as Rusty (as Rosco Ates)
(1932)
Sham Poo, the Magician
as Tourist
(1931)
Cimarron
as Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)
(1931)
The Champ
as Sponge
(1931)
A Free Soul
as Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)
(1931)
The Great Lover
as Rosco
(1931)
Politics
as Peter Higgins
(1931)
The Big Shot
as Rusty
(1931)
Reducing
as Ticket Agent
(1931)
Too Many Cooks
as Mr. Wilson
(1930)
City Girl
as Reaper
(1930)
The Big House
as Putnam
(1930)
Soup to Nuts
as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
(1930)
Check and Double Check
as Brother Arthur
(1930)
Billy the Kid
as Old Stuff
(1930)
Love in the Rough
as Proprietor
(1930)
Double Cross Roads
as Ticket Agent
(1930)
Those Three French Girls
as Elmer (uncredited)