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
- The Sheepman as Town Loafer (uncredited)
- Man with a Camera
1957
- Wagon Train as Old Timer
- Maverick
- Sugarfoot as Barber
- M Squad as Edwin Winkler
- The Big Caper as Falkenburg
1956
- State Trooper
- Come Next Spring as Shorty Wilkins
1955
- 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
- Those Redheads from Seattle as Dan Taylor
- The Stranger Wore a Gun as Jake Hooper
1952
- The Blazing Forest as Beans
1951
1950
- Father's Wild Game as Rancher
- Hills of Oklahoma as Dismal - the Cook
1948
- Tornado Range as Soapy Jones
- The Hawk of Powder River as Soapy Jones
- The Tioga Kid as Soapy
- Check Your Guns as Soapy Jones
- Inner Sanctum as Willie
- Thunder in the Pines as Wheezer, Boomer's head logger
- The Westward Trail as Soapy Jones
1947
- Black Hills as Soapy Jones
- Shadow Valley as Soapy Jones
- Wild Country as Soapy Jones
- West to Glory as Soapy Jones
- Range Beyond the Blue as Soapy Jones
1946
- Wild West as Soapy Jones
- Colorado Serenade as Soapy
- Down Missouri Way as Pappy
- Stars Over Texas as Soapy Jones
- Driftin' River as Soapy
- Tumbleweed Trail as Soapy Jones
1944
- The Great Moment as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
- Can't Help Singing as Lemuel (uncredited)
1942
- The Palm Beach Story as Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club
- The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine as Police Chief Dan Cady
1941
- Robin Hood of the Pecos as Jailer Guffy
- Birth of the Blues as Cab Driver (uncredited)
- She Knew All the Answers as Gas Station Attendant
- One Foot in Heaven as George Reynolds (uncredited)
- Reg'lar Fellers as Emory McQuade
- Ziegfeld Girl as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)
- Bad Men of Missouri as Lafe
- I'll Sell My Life as Happy Hogan
1940
- Rancho Grande as Ranch Hand
- Captain Caution as Chips
- I Want a Divorce as Process Server
- Chad Hanna as Ike Wayfish
- The Cowboy from Sundown as Deputy Gloomy Day
- Untamed as Bert Dillon
- You're Next! as Mr. Tillson
1939
- Gone with the Wind as Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)
- Three Texas Steers as Sheriff Brown
1938
- Riders of the Black Hills as Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)
- The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok as Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith
1937
- God's Country and the Woman as Gander Hopkins
1936
- Fair Exchange as Elmer Goodge
1935
- On the Wagon as Elmer
- The People's Enemy as Slip Laflin
- Why Pay Rent? as Elmer Whipple
1934
- Woman in the Dark as Tommy Logan
- Dizzy & Daffy as 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
- Merry Wives of Reno as The Trapper
- She Made Her Bed as Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)
- So You Won't T-T-T-Talk as Elmer Whipple
1933
- King Kong as Press Photographer (uncredited)
- Lucky Devils as Gabby
- Golden Harvest as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
- The Cheyenne Kid as Bush (as Rosco Ates)
- Scarlet River as Ulysses
- The Past of Mary Holmes as Bill-poster Klondike
- What! No Beer? as Schultz
- Signing 'em Up as Himself
- Alice in Wonderland as Fish
1932
- Freaks as Roscoe
- Young Bride as Pool Room Bartender Mike
- Renegades of the West as Dr. Henry Fawcett
- The Roadhouse Murder as Edmund Joyce
- Ladies of the Jury as Andrew MacKaig
- The Rainbow Trail as Ike Wilkins
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 as Self
- Hold 'Em Jail as Slippery Sam Brown
- Sham Poo, the Magician as Tourist
- Come on Danger! as Rusty (as Rosco Ates)
1931
- Reducing as Ticket Agent
- Cimarron as Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)
- The Champ as Sponge
- A Free Soul as Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)
- Politics as Peter Higgins
- The Big Shot as Rusty
- The Great Lover as Rosco
- Too Many Cooks as Mr. Wilson
1930
- The Big House as Putnam
- City Girl as Reaper
- Check and Double Check as Brother Arthur
- Soup to Nuts as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
- Double Cross Roads as Ticket Agent
- Those Three French Girls as Elmer (uncredited)
- Billy the Kid as Old Stuff
- Love in the Rough as Proprietor