Roscoe Ates
Acting • Born 1895-01-19 – Died 1962-03-01
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
116 credits
The Palm Beach Story
Movie • 1942
Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club
Alice in Wonderland
Movie • 1933
Fish
City Girl
Movie • 1930
Reaper
The Champ
Movie • 1931
Sponge
Inner Sanctum
Movie • 1948
Willie
Can't Help Singing
Movie • 1944
Lemuel (uncredited)
The Big Caper
Movie • 1957
Falkenburg
What! No Beer?
Movie • 1933
Schultz
Sham Poo, the Magician
Movie • 1932
Tourist
The People's Enemy
Movie • 1935
Slip Laflin
Birth of the Blues
Movie • 1941
Cab Driver (uncredited)
Merry Wives of Reno
Movie • 1934
The Trapper
Three Texas Steers
Movie • 1939
Sheriff Brown
God's Country and the Woman
Movie • 1937
Gander Hopkins
Chad Hanna
Movie • 1940
Ike Wayfish
Black Hills
Movie • 1947
Soapy Jones
The Roadhouse Murder
Movie • 1932
Edmund Joyce
The Great Lover
Movie • 1931
Rosco
Billy the Kid
Movie • 1930
Old Stuff
Dizzy & Daffy
Movie • 1934
'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
Politics
Movie • 1931
Peter Higgins
The Big Shot
Movie • 1931
Rusty
Woman in the Dark
Movie • 1934
Tommy Logan
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Movie • 1932
Self
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Movie • 1938
Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Movie • 1938
Jim Blakely
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Movie • 1942
Police Chief Dan Cady
Wild Country
Movie • 1947
Soapy Jones
The Stranger Wore a Gun
Movie • 1953
Jake Hooper
I Want a Divorce
Movie • 1940
Process Server
Too Many Cooks
Movie • 1931
Mr. Wilson
Tumbleweed Trail
Movie • 1946
Soapy Jones
The Tioga Kid
Movie • 1948
Soapy
Colorado Serenade
Movie • 1946
Soapy
Young Bride
Movie • 1932
Pool Room Bartender Mike
Driftin' River
Movie • 1946
Soapy
Come Next Spring
Movie • 1956
Shorty Wilkins
Reducing
Movie • 1931
Ticket Agent
Ladies of the Jury
Movie • 1932
Andrew MacKaig
The Blazing Forest
Movie • 1952
Beans
Lucky Devils
Movie • 1933
Gabby
Scarlet River
Movie • 1933
Ulysses
On the Wagon
Movie • 1935
Elmer
I'll Sell My Life
Movie • 1941
Happy Hogan
The Hawk of Powder River
Movie • 1948
Soapy Jones
Ziegfeld Girl
Movie • 1941
Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)
The Sheepman
Movie • 1958
Town Loafer (uncredited)
Cimarron
Movie • 1931
Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)
Gone with the Wind
Movie • 1939
Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)
You're Next!
Movie • 1940
Mr. Tillson
Tornado Range
Movie • 1948
Soapy Jones
Untamed
Movie • 1940
Bert Dillon
Shadow Valley
Movie • 1947
Soapy Jones
Reg'lar Fellers
Movie • 1941
Emory McQuade
The Great Moment
Movie • 1944
Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
Hold 'Em Jail
Movie • 1932
Slippery Sam Brown
Check and Double Check
Movie • 1930
Brother Arthur
Captain Caution
Movie • 1940
Chips
The Cheyenne Kid
Movie • 1933
Bush (as Rosco Ates)
Down Missouri Way
Movie • 1946
Pappy
Riders of the Black Hills
Movie • 1938
Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)
She Made Her Bed
Movie • 1934
Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)
The Ladies Man
Movie • 1961
Pet Shop Owner
Renegades of the West
Movie • 1932
Dr. Henry Fawcett
The Cowboy from Sundown
Movie • 1940
Deputy Gloomy Day
The Silent Call
Movie • 1961
Sid
King Kong
Movie • 1933
Press Photographer (uncredited)
Love in the Rough
Movie • 1930
Proprietor
Those Three French Girls
Movie • 1930
Elmer (uncredited)
Thunder in the Pines
Movie • 1948
Wheezer, Boomer's head logger
Fair Exchange
Movie • 1936
Elmer Goodge
Stars Over Texas
Movie • 1946
Soapy Jones
Hills of Oklahoma
Movie • 1950
Dismal - the Cook
Rancho Grande
Movie • 1940
Ranch Hand
Robin Hood of the Pecos
Movie • 1941
Jailer Guffy
Wild West
Movie • 1946
Soapy Jones
The Westward Trail
Movie • 1948
Soapy Jones
Range Beyond the Blue
Movie • 1947
Soapy Jones
West to Glory
Movie • 1947
Soapy Jones
Golden Harvest
Movie • 1933
Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
Check Your Guns
Movie • 1948
Soapy Jones
Bad Men of Missouri
Movie • 1941
Lafe
Those Redheads from Seattle
Movie • 1953
Dan Taylor
Soup to Nuts
Movie • 1930
Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
Movie • 1934
Elmer Whipple
Why Pay Rent?
Movie • 1935
Elmer Whipple
Lucy Gallant
Movie • 1955
Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
The Big House
Movie • 1930
Putnam
The Past of Mary Holmes
Movie • 1933
Bill-poster Klondike
Come on Danger!
Movie • 1932
Rusty (as Rosco Ates)
She Knew All the Answers
Movie • 1941
Gas Station Attendant
A Free Soul
Movie • 1931
Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)
Father's Wild Game
Movie • 1950
Rancher
Signing 'em Up
Movie • 1933
Himself
The Rainbow Trail
Movie • 1932
Ike Wilkins
Freaks
Movie • 1932
Roscoe
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Movie • 1955
Wagon Driver
One Foot in Heaven
Movie • 1941
George Reynolds (uncredited)
Double Cross Roads
Movie • 1930
Ticket Agent
Never the Twins Shall Meet
Movie • 1932
Alfred Guppy / Albert Guppy
Man with a Camera
TV • 1958
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Pop Henderson
M Squad
TV • 1957
Edwin Winkler
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
TV • 1954
Lawman
TV • 1958
Sugarfoot
TV • 1957
Barber
State Trooper
TV • 1956
The Marshal of Gunsight Pass
TV
Boston Blackie
TV • 1951
Maverick
TV • 1957
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Zack Martin
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Ben White
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Tavern Customer
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Piano Player
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Old Timer
MGM Parade
TV • 1955
Self