Roscoe Ates

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Known Credits 108

Gender Male

Birthday January 19, 1895

Day of Death March 1, 1962 (67 years old)

Place of Birth Grange, Mississippi, USA

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Roscoe Blevel Ates
Rosco Ates

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Roscoe Ates

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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.

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1961		The Ladies Man as Pet Shop Owner
1961		The Silent Call as Sid

1958		Man with a Camera (1 episode)
1958		Lawman (4 episodes)
1958		The Sheepman as Town Loafer (uncredited)

1957		Maverick (4 episodes)
1957		M Squad (1 episode) as Edwin Winkler
1957		Sugarfoot (1 episode) as Barber
1957		The Big Caper as Falkenburg

1956		State Trooper (1 episode)
1956		Come Next Spring as Shorty Wilkins

1955		Lucy Gallant as Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1 episode) as Piano Player (1 episode) as Tavern Customer (1 episode) as Ben White (1 episode) as Zack Martin (1 episode) as Pop Henderson
1955		Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops as Wagon Driver

1954

(1 episode)

1953		Those Redheads from Seattle as Dan Taylor
1953		The Stranger Wore a Gun as Jake Hooper

1952

as Beans

1951

(1 episode)

1950		Father's Wild Game as Rancher
1950		Hills of Oklahoma as Dismal - the Cook

1948		Thunder in the Pines as Wheezer, Boomer's head logger
1948		Inner Sanctum as Willie
1948		The Tioga Kid as Soapy
1948		The Hawk of Powder River as Soapy Jones
1948		The Westward Trail as Soapy Jones
1948		Tornado Range as Soapy Jones
1948		Check Your Guns as Soapy Jones

1947		Shadow Valley as Soapy Jones
1947		Black Hills as Soapy Jones
1947		West to Glory as Soapy Jones
1947		Range Beyond the Blue as Soapy Jones
1947		Wild Country as Soapy Jones

1946		Wild West as Soapy Jones
1946		Stars Over Texas as Soapy Jones
1946		Driftin' River as Soapy
1946		Down Missouri Way as Pappy
1946		Tumbleweed Trail as Soapy Jones
1946		Colorado Serenade as Soapy

1944		Can't Help Singing as Lemuel (uncredited)
1944		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
1942		The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine as Police Chief Dan Cady

1941		Birth of the Blues as Cab Driver (uncredited)
1941		One Foot in Heaven as George Reynolds (uncredited)
1941		I'll Sell My Life as Happy Hogan
1941		Reg'lar Fellers as Emory McQuade
1941		Bad Men of Missouri as Lafe
1941		She Knew All the Answers as Gas Station Attendant
1941		Ziegfeld Girl as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)
1941		Robin Hood of the Pecos as Jailer Guffy

1940		Chad Hanna as Ike Wayfish
1940		I Want a Divorce as Process Server
1940		The Cowboy from Sundown as Deputy Gloomy Day
1940		Captain Caution as Chips
1940		Untamed as Bert Dillon
1940		You're Next! as Mr. Tillson
1940		Rancho Grande as Ranch Hand

1939		Gone with the Wind as Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)
1939		Three Texas Steers as Sheriff Brown

1938		The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok as Jim Blakely as Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith
1938		Riders of the Black Hills as Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)

1937

as Gander Hopkins

1936

as Elmer Goodge

1935		On the Wagon as Elmer
1935		Why Pay Rent? as Elmer Whipple
1935		The People's Enemy as Slip Laflin

1934		Dizzy & Daffy as 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
1934		Woman in the Dark as Tommy Logan
1934		So You Won't T-T-T-Talk as Elmer Whipple
1934		She Made Her Bed as Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)
1934		Merry Wives of Reno as The Trapper

1933		Alice in Wonderland as Fish
1933		Signing 'em Up as Himself
1933		Golden Harvest as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
1933		King Kong as Press Photographer (uncredited)
1933		Scarlet River as Ulysses
1933		What! No Beer? as Schultz
1933		Lucky Devils as Gabby
1933		The Past of Mary Holmes as Bill-poster Klondike
1933		The Cheyenne Kid as Bush (as Rosco Ates)

1932		Renegades of the West as Dr. Henry Fawcett
1932		Sham Poo, the Magician as Tourist
1932		Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 as Self
1932		Come on Danger! as Rusty (as Rosco Ates)
1932		Hold 'Em Jail as Slippery Sam Brown
1932		The Roadhouse Murder as Edmund Joyce
1932		Young Bride as Pool Room Bartender Mike
1932		Ladies of the Jury as Andrew MacKaig
1932		The Rainbow Trail as Ike Wilkins
1932		Freaks as Roscoe

1931		The Big Shot as Rusty
1931		The Champ as Sponge
1931		Too Many Cooks as Mr. Wilson
1931		The Great Lover as Rosco
1931		A Free Soul as Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)
1931		Politics as Peter Higgins
1931		Cimarron as Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)
1931		Reducing as Ticket Agent

1930		Billy the Kid as Old Stuff
1930		Those Three French Girls as Elmer (uncredited)
1930		Check and Double Check as Brother Arthur
1930		Soup to Nuts as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
1930		Love in the Rough as Proprietor
1930		The Big House as Putnam
1930		Double Cross Roads as Ticket Agent
1930		City Girl as Reaper

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