Acting
Roscoe Ates
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Born
19 January 1895
Died
1 March 1962 (aged 67)
Birthplace
Grange, Mississippi, USA
Also known as Roscoe Blevel Ates · Rosco Ates
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.
Known for
Filmography
The Ladies Man
as Pet Shop Owner
The Sheepman
as Town Loafer (uncredited)
The Big Caper
as Falkenburg
Come Next Spring
as Shorty Wilkins
Lucy Gallant
as Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
as Wagon Driver
The Stranger Wore a Gun
as Jake Hooper
Those Redheads from Seattle
as Dan Taylor
The Blazing Forest
as Beans
Hills of Oklahoma
as Dismal - the Cook
Father's Wild Game
as Rancher
Inner Sanctum
as Willie
The Tioga Kid
as Soapy
The Hawk of Powder River
as Soapy Jones
Tornado Range
as Soapy Jones
Thunder in the Pines
as Wheezer, Boomer's head logger
The Westward Trail
as Soapy Jones
Check Your Guns
as Soapy Jones
Black Hills
as Soapy Jones
Wild Country
as Soapy Jones
Shadow Valley
as Soapy Jones
Range Beyond the Blue
as Soapy Jones
West to Glory
as Soapy Jones
Tumbleweed Trail
as Soapy Jones
Colorado Serenade
as Soapy
Driftin' River
as Soapy
Down Missouri Way
as Pappy
Stars Over Texas
as Soapy Jones
Wild West
as Soapy Jones
Can't Help Singing
as Lemuel (uncredited)
The Great Moment
as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
The Palm Beach Story
as Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
as Police Chief Dan Cady
Birth of the Blues
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
I'll Sell My Life
as Happy Hogan
Ziegfeld Girl
as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)
Reg'lar Fellers
as Emory McQuade
Robin Hood of the Pecos
as Jailer Guffy
She Knew All the Answers
as Gas Station Attendant
One Foot in Heaven
as George Reynolds (uncredited)
Chad Hanna
as Ike Wayfish
I Want a Divorce
as Process Server
You're Next!
as Mr. Tillson
Untamed
as Bert Dillon
Captain Caution
as Chips
The Cowboy from Sundown
as Deputy Gloomy Day
Rancho Grande
as Ranch Hand
Three Texas Steers
as Sheriff Brown
Gone with the Wind
as Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith, as Jim Blakely
Riders of the Black Hills
as Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)
God's Country and the Woman
as Gander Hopkins
Fair Exchange
1936
Fair Exchange
as Elmer Goodge
The People's Enemy
as Slip Laflin
On the Wagon
as Elmer
Why Pay Rent?
as Elmer Whipple
Merry Wives of Reno
as The Trapper
Dizzy & Daffy
as 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
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
What! No Beer?
as Schultz
Lucky Devils
as Gabby
Scarlet River
as Ulysses
The Cheyenne Kid
as Bush (as Rosco Ates)
King Kong
as Press Photographer (uncredited)
Golden Harvest
as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
The Past of Mary Holmes
as Bill-poster Klondike
Sham Poo, the Magician
as Tourist
The Roadhouse Murder
as Edmund Joyce
Young Bride
as Pool Room Bartender Mike
Ladies of the Jury
as Andrew MacKaig
Hold 'Em Jail
as Slippery Sam Brown
Renegades of the West
as Dr. Henry Fawcett
Come on Danger!
as Rusty (as Rosco Ates)
The Rainbow Trail
as Ike Wilkins
Freaks
as Roscoe
Never the Twins Shall Meet
1932
Never the Twins Shall Meet
as Alfred Guppy / Albert Guppy
The Champ
as Sponge
The Great Lover
as Rosco
Politics
as Peter Higgins
The Big Shot
as Rusty
Too Many Cooks
as Mr. Wilson
Reducing
as Ticket Agent
Cimarron
as Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)
A Free Soul
as Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)
City Girl
as Reaper
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)
Soup to Nuts
as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
The Big House
as Putnam
Double Cross Roads
as Ticket Agent