Roscoe Ates

Personal Info

Birthday

January 19, 1895

Day of Death

1962-03-01

(67 years old)

Place of Birth

Grange, Mississippi, USA

Also Known As

Roscoe Blevel Ates

Rosco Ates

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.

Known For

M Squad

Sugarfoot

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Gone with the Wind

King Kong

Freaks

The Ladies Man

The Stranger Wore a Gun

Filmography

1961
The Ladies Man
as Pet Shop Owner
The Silent Call
as Sid
1958
The Sheepman
as Town Loafer (uncredited)
1957
The Big Caper
as Falkenburg
1956
Come Next Spring
as Shorty Wilkins
1955
Lucy Gallant
as Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
as Wagon Driver
1953
Those Redheads from Seattle
as Dan Taylor
The Stranger Wore a Gun
as Jake Hooper
1952
The Blazing Forest
as Beans
1950
Father's Wild Game
as Rancher
Hills of Oklahoma
as Dismal - the Cook
1948
Thunder in the Pines
as Wheezer, Boomer's head logger
Inner Sanctum
as Willie
The Tioga Kid
as Soapy
The Hawk of Powder River
as Soapy Jones
The Westward Trail
as Soapy Jones
Tornado Range
as Soapy Jones
Check Your Guns
as Soapy Jones
1947
Shadow Valley
as Soapy Jones
Black Hills
as Soapy Jones
West to Glory
as Soapy Jones
Range Beyond the Blue
as Soapy Jones
Wild Country
as Soapy Jones
1946
Wild West
as Soapy Jones
Stars Over Texas
as Soapy Jones
Driftin' River
as Soapy
Down Missouri Way
as Pappy
Tumbleweed Trail
as Soapy Jones
Colorado Serenade
as Soapy
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
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
Bad Men of Missouri
as Lafe
She Knew All the Answers
as Gas Station Attendant
Ziegfeld Girl
as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)
Robin Hood of the Pecos
as Jailer Guffy
1940
Chad Hanna
as Ike Wayfish
I Want a Divorce
as Process Server
The Cowboy from Sundown
as Deputy Gloomy Day
Captain Caution
as Chips
Untamed
as Bert Dillon
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
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith
Riders of the Black Hills
as Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)
1937
God's Country and the Woman
as Gander Hopkins
1936
Fair Exchange
as Elmer Goodge
1935
On the Wagon
as Elmer
Why Pay Rent?
as Elmer Whipple
The People's Enemy
as Slip Laflin
1934
Dizzy & Daffy
as 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
Woman in the Dark
as Tommy Logan
So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
as Elmer Whipple
She Made Her Bed
as Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)
Merry Wives of Reno
as The Trapper
1933
Alice in Wonderland
as Fish
Signing 'em Up
as Himself
Golden Harvest
as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
King Kong
as Press Photographer (uncredited)
Scarlet River
as Ulysses
What! No Beer?
as Schultz
Lucky Devils
as Gabby
The Cheyenne Kid
as Bush (as Rosco Ates)
The Past of Mary Holmes
as Bill-poster Klondike
1932
Renegades of the West
as Dr. Henry Fawcett
Sham Poo, the Magician
as Tourist
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
as Self
Come on Danger!
as Rusty (as Rosco Ates)
Hold 'Em Jail
as Slippery Sam Brown
The Roadhouse Murder
as Edmund Joyce
Young Bride
as Pool Room Bartender Mike
Ladies of the Jury
as Andrew MacKaig
The Rainbow Trail
as Ike Wilkins
Freaks
as Roscoe
1931
The Big Shot
as Rusty
The Champ
as Sponge
Too Many Cooks
as Mr. Wilson
The Great Lover
as Rosco
A Free Soul
as Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)
Politics
as Peter Higgins
Cimarron
as Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)
Reducing
as Ticket Agent
1930
Billy the Kid
as Old Stuff
Those Three French Girls
as Elmer (uncredited)
Check and Double Check
as Brother Arthur
Soup to Nuts
as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
Love in the Rough
as Proprietor
The Big House
as Putnam
Double Cross Roads
as Ticket Agent
City Girl
as Reaper