Roscoe Ates
- Acting
- January 19, 1895 · Grange, Mississippi, USA
- March 1, 1962
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.
Known for
Filmography
- The Ladies Man · Pet Shop Owner
- The Silent Call · Sid
- Man with a Camera
- Lawman
- The Sheepman · Town Loafer (uncredited)
- Maverick · Albert
- M Squad · Edwin Winkler
- Wagon Train · Old Timer
- Sugarfoot · Barber
- The Big Caper · Falkenburg
- State Trooper
- Come Next Spring · Shorty Wilkins
- Lucy Gallant · Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents · Pop Henderson, Zack Martin
- MGM Parade · Self
- Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops · Wagon Driver
- The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
- Those Redheads from Seattle · Dan Taylor
- The Stranger Wore a Gun · Jake Hooper
- The Blazing Forest · Beans
- Boston Blackie
- Father's Wild Game · Rancher
- Hills of Oklahoma · Dismal - the Cook
- The Marshal of Gunsight Pass
- Thunder in the Pines · Wheezer, Boomer's head logger
- Inner Sanctum · Willie
- The Tioga Kid · Soapy
- The Hawk of Powder River · Soapy Jones
- The Westward Trail · Soapy Jones
- Tornado Range · Soapy Jones
- Check Your Guns · Soapy Jones
- Shadow Valley · Soapy Jones
- Black Hills · Soapy Jones
- West to Glory · Soapy Jones
- Range Beyond the Blue · Soapy Jones
- Wild Country · Soapy Jones
- Wild West · Soapy Jones
- Stars Over Texas · Soapy Jones
- Driftin' River · Soapy
- Down Missouri Way · Pappy
- Tumbleweed Trail · Soapy Jones
- Colorado Serenade · Soapy
- Can't Help Singing · Lemuel (uncredited)
- The Great Moment · Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
- The Palm Beach Story · Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club
- The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine · Police Chief Dan Cady
- Birth of the Blues · Cab Driver (uncredited)
- One Foot in Heaven · George Reynolds (uncredited)
- I'll Sell My Life · Happy Hogan
- Reg'lar Fellers · Emory McQuade
- Bad Men of Missouri · Lafe
- She Knew All the Answers · Gas Station Attendant
- Ziegfeld Girl · Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)
- Robin Hood of the Pecos · Jailer Guffy
- Chad Hanna · Ike Wayfish
- I Want a Divorce · Process Server
- The Cowboy from Sundown · Deputy Gloomy Day
- Captain Caution · Chips
- Untamed · Bert Dillon
- You're Next! · Mr. Tillson
- Rancho Grande · Ranch Hand
- Gone with the Wind · Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)
- Three Texas Steers · Sheriff Brown
- The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok · Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith, Jim Blakely
- Riders of the Black Hills · Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)
- God's Country and the Woman · Gander Hopkins
- Fair Exchange · Elmer Goodge
- On the Wagon · Elmer
- Why Pay Rent? · Elmer Whipple
- The People's Enemy · Slip Laflin
- Dizzy & Daffy · 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
- Woman in the Dark · Tommy Logan
- So You Won't T-T-T-Talk · Elmer Whipple
- She Made Her Bed · Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)
- Merry Wives of Reno · The Trapper
- Alice in Wonderland · Fish
- Signing 'em Up · Self
- Golden Harvest · Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
- King Kong · Press Photographer (uncredited)
- Scarlet River · Ulysses