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.
Known For
Acting
(1961)
The Silent Call
as Sid
(1961)
The Ladies Man
as Pet Shop Owner
(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)
Hills of Oklahoma
as Dismal - the Cook
(1950)
Father's Wild Game
as Rancher
(1948)
The Westward Trail
as Soapy Jones
(1948)
The Tioga Kid
as Soapy
(1948)
The Hawk of Powder River
as Soapy Jones
(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
(1947)
Black Hills
as Soapy Jones
(1947)
Wild Country
as Soapy Jones
(1947)
Shadow Valley
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)
Down Missouri Way
as Pappy
(1946)
Driftin' River
as Soapy
(1946)
Colorado Serenade
as Soapy
(1946)
Stars Over Texas
as Soapy Jones
(1946)
Tumbleweed Trail
as Soapy Jones
(1944)
Can't Help Singing
as Lemuel (uncredited)
(1944)
The Great Moment
as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (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)
She Knew All the Answers
as Gas Station Attendant
(1941)
One Foot in Heaven
as George Reynolds (uncredited)
(1941)
Birth of the Blues
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
(1941)
Robin Hood of the Pecos
as Jailer Guffy
(1941)
Reg'lar Fellers
as Emory McQuade
(1941)
Ziegfeld Girl
as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)
(1941)
Bad Men of Missouri
as Lafe
(1941)
I'll Sell My Life
as Happy Hogan
(1940)
I Want a Divorce
as Process Server
(1940)
You're Next!
as Mr. Tillson
(1940)
The Cowboy from Sundown
as Deputy Gloomy Day
(1940)
Captain Caution
as Chips
(1940)
Rancho Grande
as Ranch Hand
(1940)
Untamed
as Bert Dillon
(1940)
Chad Hanna
as Ike Wayfish
(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)
Why Pay Rent?
as Elmer Whipple
(1935)
The People's Enemy
as Slip Laflin
(1935)
On the Wagon
as Elmer
(1934)
Merry Wives of Reno
as The Trapper
(1934)
Woman in the Dark
as Tommy Logan
(1934)
Dizzy & Daffy
as 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
(1934)
She Made Her Bed
as Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)
(1934)
So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
as Elmer Whipple
(1933)
King Kong
as Press Photographer (uncredited)
(1933)
The Past of Mary Holmes
as Bill-poster Klondike
(1933)
Scarlet River
as Ulysses
(1933)
Golden Harvest
as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
(1933)
What! No Beer?
as Schultz
(1933)
The Cheyenne Kid
as Bush (as Rosco Ates)
(1933)
Lucky Devils
as Gabby
(1933)
Alice in Wonderland
as Fish
(1933)
Signing 'em Up
as Himself
(1932)
Freaks
as Roscoe
(1932)
Renegades of the West
as Dr. Henry Fawcett
(1932)
The Rainbow Trail
as Ike Wilkins
(1932)
The Roadhouse Murder
as Edmund Joyce
(1932)
Come on Danger!
as Rusty (as Rosco Ates)
(1932)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
as Self
(1932)
Young Bride
as Pool Room Bartender Mike
(1932)
Hold 'Em Jail
as Slippery Sam Brown
(1932)
Ladies of the Jury
as Andrew MacKaig
(1932)
Sham Poo, the Magician
as Tourist
(1931)
The Big Shot
as Rusty
(1931)
Too Many Cooks
as Mr. Wilson
(1931)
Reducing
as Ticket Agent
(1931)
Cimarron
as Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)
(1931)
The Great Lover
as Rosco
(1931)
A Free Soul
as Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)
(1931)
The Champ
as Sponge
(1931)
Politics
as Peter Higgins
(1930)
Billy the Kid
as Old Stuff
(1930)
The Big House
as Putnam
(1930)
Double Cross Roads
as Ticket Agent
(1930)
Soup to Nuts
as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
(1930)
Love in the Rough
as Proprietor
(1930)
Those Three French Girls
as Elmer (uncredited)
(1930)
City Girl
as Reaper
(1930)
Check and Double Check
as Brother Arthur