Roscoe Ates

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1895-01-19 (67 years old)

Deathday

1962-03-01

Place of Birth

Grange, Mississippi, USA

Roscoe Ates

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.

Acting

1942

The Palm Beach Story

as Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club

1930

City Girl

as Reaper

1931

The Champ

as Sponge

1948

Inner Sanctum

as Willie

1944

Can't Help Singing

as Lemuel (uncredited)

1957

The Big Caper

as Falkenburg

1933

What! No Beer?

as Schultz

1935

The People's Enemy

as Slip Laflin

1941

Birth of the Blues

as Cab Driver (uncredited)

1934

Merry Wives of Reno

as The Trapper

1939

Three Texas Steers

as Sheriff Brown

1937

1940

Chad Hanna

as Ike Wayfish

1947

Black Hills

as Soapy Jones

1932

The Roadhouse Murder

as Edmund Joyce

1931

1930

Billy the Kid

as Old Stuff

1934

Dizzy & Daffy

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

1931

Politics

as Peter Higgins

1931

The Big Shot

as Rusty

1934

Woman in the Dark

as Tommy Logan

1938

1942

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

as Police Chief Dan Cady

1947

Wild Country

as Soapy Jones

1953

1940

I Want a Divorce

as Process Server

1931

Too Many Cooks

as Mr. Wilson

1946

Tumbleweed Trail

as Soapy Jones

1948

1946

1946

1932

Young Bride

as Pool Room Bartender Mike

1956

Come Next Spring

as Shorty Wilkins

1931

Reducing

as Ticket Agent

1932

Ladies of the Jury

as Andrew MacKaig

1952

1933

Lucky Devils

as Gabby

1933

Scarlet River

as Ulysses

1935

On the Wagon

as Elmer

1941

I'll Sell My Life

as Happy Hogan

1948

1941

Ziegfeld Girl

as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)

1958

The Sheepman

as Town Loafer (uncredited)

1931

Cimarron

as Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)

1939

Gone with the Wind

as Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)

1940

You're Next!

as Mr. Tillson

1948

Tornado Range

as Soapy Jones

1940

Untamed

as Bert Dillon

1947

Shadow Valley

as Soapy Jones

1941

Reg'lar Fellers

as Emory McQuade

1944

The Great Moment

as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)

1932

Hold 'Em Jail

as Slippery Sam Brown

1930

Check and Double Check

as Brother Arthur

1940

1933

The Cheyenne Kid

as Bush (as Rosco Ates)

1946

1938

Riders of the Black Hills

as Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)

1934

She Made Her Bed

as Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)

1961

The Ladies Man

as Pet Shop Owner

1932

Renegades of the West

as Dr. Henry Fawcett

1940

The Cowboy from Sundown

as Deputy Gloomy Day

1961

1933

King Kong

as Press Photographer (uncredited)

1930

Love in the Rough

as Proprietor

1930

Those Three French Girls

as Elmer (uncredited)

1936

Fair Exchange

as Elmer Goodge

1948

Thunder in the Pines

as Wheezer, Boomer's head logger

1946

Stars Over Texas

as Soapy Jones

1950

Hills of Oklahoma

as Dismal - the Cook

1940

Rancho Grande

as Ranch Hand

1941

1946

Wild West

as Soapy Jones

1947

Range Beyond the Blue

as Soapy Jones

1948

The Westward Trail

as Soapy Jones

1947

West to Glory

as Soapy Jones

1933

Golden Harvest

as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou

1948

Check Your Guns

as Soapy Jones

1930

Soup to Nuts

as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)

1934

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

as Elmer Whipple

1935

Why Pay Rent?

as Elmer Whipple

1955

Lucy Gallant

as Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

1930

The Big House

as Putnam

1933

The Past of Mary Holmes

as Bill-poster Klondike

1932

Come on Danger!

as Rusty (as Rosco Ates)

1941

She Knew All the Answers

as Gas Station Attendant

1931

A Free Soul

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

1950

1933

Signing 'em Up

as Himself

1932

The Rainbow Trail

as Ike Wilkins

1932

Freaks

as Roscoe

1941

One Foot in Heaven

as George Reynolds (uncredited)

1930

Double Cross Roads

as Ticket Agent

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