Roscoe Ates

Roscoe Ates

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

19/01/1895

Day of Death

01/03/1962
(67) years old

Place of Birth

Grange, Mississippi, USA

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.

Filmography

Cast

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

Lucy Gallant

as Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

1953

The Stranger Wore a Gun

as Jake Hooper

1952

The Blazing Forest

as Beans

1950

Father's Wild Game

as Rancher

1950

Hills of Oklahoma

as Dismal - the Cook

1948

Thunder in the Pines

as Wheezer, Boomer's head logger

1948

Inner Sanctum

as Willie

1948

The Tioga Kid

as Soapy

1948

The Hawk of Powder River

as Soapy Jones

1948

The Westward Trail

as Soapy Jones

1948

Tornado Range

as Soapy Jones

1948

Check Your Guns

as Soapy Jones

1947

Shadow Valley

as Soapy Jones

1947

Black Hills

as Soapy Jones

1947

West to Glory

as Soapy Jones

1947

Range Beyond the Blue

as Soapy Jones

1947

Wild Country

as Soapy Jones

1946

Wild West

as Soapy Jones

1946

Stars Over Texas

as Soapy Jones

1946

Driftin' River

as Soapy

1946

Down Missouri Way

as Pappy

1946

Tumbleweed Trail

as Soapy Jones

1946

Colorado Serenade

as Soapy

1944

Can't Help Singing

as Lemuel (uncredited)

1944

The Great Moment

as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank...

1942

The Palm Beach Story

as Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club

1942

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

as Police Chief Dan Cady

1941

Birth of the Blues

as Cab Driver (uncredited)

1941

One Foot in Heaven

as George Reynolds (uncredited)

1941

I'll Sell My Life

as Happy Hogan

1941

Reg'lar Fellers

as Emory McQuade

1941

She Knew All the Answers

as Gas Station Attendant

1941

Ziegfeld Girl

as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)

1941

Robin Hood of the Pecos

as Jailer Guffy

1940

Chad Hanna

as Ike Wayfish

1940

I Want a Divorce

as Process Server

1940

The Cowboy from Sundown

as Deputy Gloomy Day

1940

Captain Caution

as Chips

1940

Untamed

as Bert Dillon

1940

You're Next!

as Mr. Tillson

1940

Rancho Grande

as Ranch Hand

1939

Gone with the Wind

as Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)

1939

Three Texas Steers

as Sheriff Brown

1938

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

as Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith

1938

Riders of the Black Hills

as Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)

1937

God's Country and the Woman

as Gander Hopkins

1936

Fair Exchange

as Elmer Goodge

1935

On the Wagon

as Elmer

1935

Why Pay Rent?

as Elmer Whipple

1935

The People's Enemy

as Slip Laflin

1934

Dizzy & Daffy

as 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire

1934

Woman in the Dark

as Tommy Logan

1934

So You Won't T-T-T-Talk

as Elmer Whipple

1934

She Made Her Bed

as Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)

1934

Merry Wives of Reno

as The Trapper

1933

Signing 'em Up

as Himself

1933

Golden Harvest

as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou

1933

King Kong

as Press Photographer (uncredited)

1933

Scarlet River

as Ulysses

1933

What! No Beer?

as Schultz

1933

Lucky Devils

as Gabby

1933

The Cheyenne Kid

as Bush (as Rosco Ates)

1933

The Past of Mary Holmes

as Bill-poster Klondike

1932

Renegades of the West

as Dr. Henry Fawcett

1932

Come on Danger!

as Rusty (as Rosco Ates)

1932

Hold 'Em Jail

as Slippery Sam Brown

1932

The Roadhouse Murder

as Edmund Joyce

1932

Young Bride

as Pool Room Bartender Mike

1932

Ladies of the Jury

as Andrew MacKaig

1932

The Rainbow Trail

as Ike Wilkins

1932

Freaks

as Roscoe

1931

The Big Shot

as Rusty

1931

The Champ

as Sponge

1931

The Great Lover

as Rosco

1931

Too Many Cooks

as Mr. Wilson

1931

A Free Soul

as Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)

1931

Politics

as Peter Higgins

1931

Cimarron

as Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)

1931

Reducing

as Ticket Agent

1930

Billy the Kid

as Old Stuff

1930

Those Three French Girls

as Elmer (uncredited)

1930

Check and Double Check

as Brother Arthur

1930

Soup to Nuts

as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncre...

1930

Love in the Rough

as Proprietor

1930

The Big House

as Putnam

1930

Double Cross Roads

as Ticket Agent

1930

City Girl

as Reaper