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.
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
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
99
Gender
Male
Birthday
1895-01-19
Place of Birth
Grange, Mississippi, USA
Also Known As
Roscoe Blevel Ates