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
- The Marshal of Gunsight Pass
- Father's Wild Game as Rancher
- Hills of Oklahoma as Dismal - the Cook
1948
- The Hawk of Powder River as Soapy Jones
- Inner Sanctum as Willie
- Thunder in the Pines as Wheezer, Boomer's head logger
- The Westward Trail as Soapy Jones
- The Tioga Kid as Soapy
- Tornado Range as Soapy Jones
- Check Your Guns as Soapy Jones
1947
- Range Beyond the Blue as Soapy Jones
- West to Glory as Soapy Jones
- Wild Country as Soapy Jones
- Shadow Valley as Soapy Jones
- Black Hills as Soapy Jones
1946
- Stars Over Texas as Soapy Jones
- Wild West as Soapy Jones
- Colorado Serenade as Soapy
- Down Missouri Way as Pappy
- Driftin' River as Soapy
- Tumbleweed Trail 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)
- Bad Men of Missouri as Lafe
- She Knew All the Answers as Gas Station Attendant
- Robin Hood of the Pecos as Jailer Guffy
- Birth of the Blues as Cab Driver (uncredited)
- One Foot in Heaven as George Reynolds (uncredited)
- I'll Sell My Life as Happy Hogan
- Reg'lar Fellers as Emory McQuade
1940
- I Want a Divorce as Process Server
- The Cowboy from Sundown as Deputy Gloomy Day
- Untamed as Bert Dillon
- Captain Caution as Chips
- Chad Hanna as Ike Wayfish
- 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
- 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
- Woman in the Dark as Tommy Logan
- She Made Her Bed as Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)
- So You Won't T-T-T-Talk as Elmer Whipple
- Merry Wives of Reno as The Trapper
- Dizzy & Daffy as 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
1933
- King Kong as Press Photographer (uncredited)
- Alice in Wonderland as Fish
- The Past of Mary Holmes as Bill-poster Klondike
- Golden Harvest as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
- What! No Beer? as Schultz
- Lucky Devils as Gabby
- Scarlet River as Ulysses
- The Cheyenne Kid as Bush (as Rosco Ates)
- Signing 'em Up as Himself
1932
- Freaks as Roscoe
- Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 as Self
- Ladies of the Jury as Andrew MacKaig
- Renegades of the West as Dr. Henry Fawcett
- Never the Twins Shall Meet as Alfred Guppy / Albert Guppy
- Sham Poo, the Magician as Tourist
- Young Bride as Pool Room Bartender Mike
- Hold 'Em Jail as Slippery Sam Brown
- The Roadhouse Murder as Edmund Joyce
- The Rainbow Trail as Ike Wilkins
- 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)
- The Great Lover as Rosco
- Too Many Cooks as Mr. Wilson
- Reducing as Ticket Agent
- Politics as Peter Higgins
- The Big Shot as Rusty
1930
- City Girl as Reaper
- Check and Double Check as Brother Arthur
- Love in the Rough as Proprietor
- The Big House as Putnam
- Soup to Nuts as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
- Those Three French Girls as Elmer (uncredited)
- Billy the Kid as Old Stuff
- Double Cross Roads as Ticket Agent