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
- 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
- MGM Parade as Self
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops as Wagon Driver
- Lucy Gallant as Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1953
- The Stranger Wore a Gun as Jake Hooper
- Those Redheads from Seattle as Dan Taylor
1952
- The Blazing Forest as Beans
1951
1950
- Hills of Oklahoma as Dismal - the Cook
- Father's Wild Game as Rancher
1948
- Inner Sanctum as Willie
- The Westward Trail as Soapy Jones
- Tornado Range as Soapy Jones
- Check Your Guns as Soapy Jones
- The Hawk of Powder River as Soapy Jones
- The Tioga Kid as Soapy
- Thunder in the Pines as Wheezer, Boomer's head logger
1947
- Black Hills as Soapy Jones
- West to Glory as Soapy Jones
- Wild Country as Soapy Jones
- Shadow Valley as Soapy Jones
- Range Beyond the Blue as Soapy Jones
1946
- Wild West as Soapy Jones
- Tumbleweed Trail as Soapy Jones
- Colorado Serenade as Soapy
- Down Missouri Way as Pappy
- Stars Over Texas as Soapy Jones
- Driftin' River as Soapy
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
- Ziegfeld Girl as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)
- One Foot in Heaven as George Reynolds (uncredited)
- She Knew All the Answers as Gas Station Attendant
- Bad Men of Missouri as Lafe
- Birth of the Blues as Cab Driver (uncredited)
- Robin Hood of the Pecos as Jailer Guffy
- I'll Sell My Life as Happy Hogan
- Reg'lar Fellers as Emory McQuade
1940
- Untamed as Bert Dillon
- Captain Caution as Chips
- Chad Hanna as Ike Wayfish
- The Cowboy from Sundown as Deputy Gloomy Day
- Rancho Grande as Ranch Hand
- I Want a Divorce as Process Server
- 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
- 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)
- Merry Wives of Reno as The Trapper
- Woman in the Dark as Tommy Logan
- Dizzy & Daffy as 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
- So You Won't T-T-T-Talk as Elmer Whipple
1933
- King Kong as Press Photographer (uncredited)
- Alice in Wonderland as Fish
- Golden Harvest as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
- What! No Beer? as Schultz
- Scarlet River as Ulysses
- Lucky Devils as Gabby
- 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
- The Rainbow Trail as Ike Wilkins
- Young Bride as Pool Room Bartender Mike
- Ladies of the Jury as Andrew MacKaig
- Sham Poo, the Magician as Tourist
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 as Self
- The Roadhouse Murder as Edmund Joyce
- Hold 'Em Jail as Slippery Sam Brown
- Never the Twins Shall Meet as Alfred Guppy / Albert Guppy
- Renegades of the West as Dr. Henry Fawcett
- 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)
- Politics as Peter Higgins
- The Big Shot as Rusty
- Reducing as Ticket Agent
- Too Many Cooks as Mr. Wilson
- The Great Lover as Rosco
1930
- City Girl as Reaper
- The Big House as Putnam
- Check and Double Check as Brother Arthur
- Soup to Nuts as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
- Billy the Kid as Old Stuff
- Love in the Rough as Proprietor
- Those Three French Girls as Elmer (uncredited)
- Double Cross Roads as Ticket Agent