Roscoe Ates
Born: 1895-01-19 in Grange, Mississippi, USA
Died: 1962-03-01
Known For: Acting
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
1961
- The Ladies Man as Pet Shop Owner
- The Silent Call as Sid
1958
- Lawman
- Man with a Camera
- The Sheepman as Town Loafer (uncredited)
1957
- Maverick
- Wagon Train as Old Timer
- Sugarfoot as Barber
- M Squad as Edwin Winkler
- The Big Caper as Falkenburg
1956
- State Trooper
- Come Next Spring as Shorty Wilkins
1955
- MGM Parade as Self
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Pop Henderson
- Lucy Gallant as Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops as Wagon Driver
1953
- The Stranger Wore a Gun as Jake Hooper
- Those Redheads from Seattle as Dan Taylor
1952
- The Blazing Forest as Beans
1951
1950
- Father's Wild Game as Rancher
- Hills of Oklahoma as Dismal - the Cook
1948
- Inner Sanctum as Willie
- Thunder in the Pines as Wheezer, Boomer's head logger
- Tornado Range as Soapy Jones
- The Hawk of Powder River as Soapy Jones
- Check Your Guns as Soapy Jones
- The Tioga Kid as Soapy
- The Westward Trail as Soapy Jones
1947
- Wild Country as Soapy Jones
- Black Hills as Soapy Jones
- Shadow Valley as Soapy Jones
- West to Glory as Soapy Jones
- Range Beyond the Blue as Soapy Jones
1946
- Colorado Serenade as Soapy
- Wild West as Soapy Jones
- Down Missouri Way as Pappy
- Tumbleweed Trail as Soapy Jones
- Driftin' River as Soapy
- Stars Over Texas as Soapy Jones
1944
- Can't Help Singing as Lemuel (uncredited)
- 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
- The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine as Police Chief Dan Cady
1941
- Ziegfeld Girl as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)
- One Foot in Heaven as George Reynolds (uncredited)
- Robin Hood of the Pecos as Jailer Guffy
- Birth of the Blues as Cab Driver (uncredited)
- Bad Men of Missouri as Lafe
- She Knew All the Answers as Gas Station Attendant
- I'll Sell My Life as Happy Hogan
- Reg'lar Fellers as Emory McQuade
1940
- Chad Hanna as Ike Wayfish
- I Want a Divorce as Process Server
- Captain Caution as Chips
- Untamed as Bert Dillon
- The Cowboy from Sundown as Deputy Gloomy Day
- You're Next! as Mr. Tillson
- Rancho Grande as Ranch Hand
1939
- Gone with the Wind as Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)
- Three Texas Steers as Sheriff Brown
1938
- The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok as Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith
- 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
- The People's Enemy as Slip Laflin
- On the Wagon as Elmer
- Why Pay Rent? as Elmer Whipple
1934
- She Made Her Bed as Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)
- Woman in the Dark as Tommy Logan
- Merry Wives of Reno as The Trapper
- So You Won't T-T-T-Talk as Elmer Whipple
- Dizzy & Daffy as 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
1933
- King Kong as Press Photographer (uncredited)
- Alice in Wonderland as Fish
- Scarlet River as Ulysses
- Lucky Devils as Gabby
- What! No Beer? as Schultz
- Golden Harvest as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
- The Past of Mary Holmes as Bill-poster Klondike
- The Cheyenne Kid as Bush (as Rosco Ates)
- Signing 'em Up as Himself
1932
- Freaks as Roscoe
- Ladies of the Jury as Andrew MacKaig
- Never the Twins Shall Meet as Alfred Guppy / Albert Guppy
- Young Bride as Pool Room Bartender Mike
- Sham Poo, the Magician as Tourist
- The Rainbow Trail as Ike Wilkins
- Hold 'Em Jail as Slippery Sam Brown
- Renegades of the West as Dr. Henry Fawcett
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 as Self
- The Roadhouse Murder as Edmund Joyce
- Come on Danger! as Rusty (as Rosco Ates)
1931
- Cimarron as Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)
- The Champ as Sponge
- A Free Soul as Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)
- Reducing as Ticket Agent
- The Big Shot as Rusty
- Too Many Cooks as Mr. Wilson
- The Great Lover as Rosco
- Politics as Peter Higgins
1930
- City Girl as Reaper
- The Big House as Putnam
- Soup to Nuts as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
- Billy the Kid as Old Stuff
- Check and Double Check as Brother Arthur
- Love in the Rough as Proprietor
- Those Three French Girls as Elmer (uncredited)
- Double Cross Roads as Ticket Agent