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

Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club

The Palm Beach Story

Fish

Alice in Wonderland

Reaper

City Girl

Sponge

The Champ

Willie

Inner Sanctum

Lemuel (uncredited)

Can't Help Singing

Falkenburg

The Big Caper

Schultz

What! No Beer?

Tourist

Sham Poo, the Magician

Slip Laflin

The People's Enemy

Cab Driver (uncredited)

Birth of the Blues

The Trapper

Merry Wives of Reno

Sheriff Brown

Three Texas Steers

Gander Hopkins

God's Country and the Woman

Ike Wayfish

Chad Hanna

Soapy Jones

Black Hills

Edmund Joyce

The Roadhouse Murder

Rosco

The Great Lover

Old Stuff

Billy the Kid

'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire

Dizzy & Daffy

Peter Higgins

Politics

Rusty

The Big Shot

Tommy Logan

Woman in the Dark

Self

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3

Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Jim Blakely

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Police Chief Dan Cady

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

Soapy Jones

Wild Country

Jake Hooper

The Stranger Wore a Gun

Process Server

I Want a Divorce

Mr. Wilson

Too Many Cooks

Soapy Jones

Tumbleweed Trail

Soapy

The Tioga Kid

Soapy

Colorado Serenade

Soapy

Driftin' River

Pool Room Bartender Mike

Young Bride

Shorty Wilkins

Come Next Spring

Ticket Agent

Reducing

Andrew MacKaig

Ladies of the Jury

Beans

The Blazing Forest

Gabby

Lucky Devils

Ulysses

Scarlet River

Elmer

On the Wagon

Happy Hogan

I'll Sell My Life

Soapy Jones

The Hawk of Powder River

Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)

Ziegfeld Girl

Town Loafer (uncredited)

The Sheepman

Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)

Cimarron

Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)

Gone with the Wind

Mr. Tillson

You're Next!

Soapy Jones

Tornado Range

Bert Dillon

Untamed

Soapy Jones

Shadow Valley

Emory McQuade

Reg'lar Fellers

Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)

The Great Moment

Slippery Sam Brown

Hold 'Em Jail

Brother Arthur

Check and Double Check

Chips

Captain Caution

Bush (as Rosco Ates)

The Cheyenne Kid

Pappy

Down Missouri Way

Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)

Riders of the Black Hills

Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)

She Made Her Bed

Pet Shop Owner

The Ladies Man

Dr. Henry Fawcett

Renegades of the West

Deputy Gloomy Day

The Cowboy from Sundown

Sid

The Silent Call

Press Photographer (uncredited)

King Kong

Proprietor

Love in the Rough

Elmer (uncredited)

Those Three French Girls

Wheezer, Boomer's head logger

Thunder in the Pines

Elmer Goodge

Fair Exchange

Soapy Jones

Stars Over Texas

Dismal - the Cook

Hills of Oklahoma

Ranch Hand

Rancho Grande

Jailer Guffy

Robin Hood of the Pecos

Soapy Jones

Wild West

Soapy Jones

The Westward Trail

Soapy Jones

Range Beyond the Blue

Soapy Jones

West to Glory

Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou

Golden Harvest

Soapy Jones

Check Your Guns

Lafe

Bad Men of Missouri

Dan Taylor

Those Redheads from Seattle

Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)

Soup to Nuts

Elmer Whipple

So You Won't T-T-T-Talk

Elmer Whipple

Why Pay Rent?

Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

Lucy Gallant

Putnam

The Big House

Bill-poster Klondike

The Past of Mary Holmes

Rusty (as Rosco Ates)

Come on Danger!

Gas Station Attendant

She Knew All the Answers

Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)

A Free Soul

Rancher

Father's Wild Game

Himself

Signing 'em Up

Ike Wilkins

The Rainbow Trail

Roscoe

Freaks

Wagon Driver

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

George Reynolds (uncredited)

One Foot in Heaven

Ticket Agent

Double Cross Roads

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

99

Gender

Male

Birthday

1895-01-19

Place of Birth

Grange, Mississippi, USA

Also Known As

Roscoe Blevel Ates