Roscoe Ates

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

112

Gender

Male

Birthday

1895-01-19

Deathday

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

Gone with the Wind
7.9%

Gone with the Wind

Dec 15, 1939

King Kong
7.6%

King Kong

Mar 15, 1933

Freaks
7.8%

Freaks

Jan 1, 1932

The Palm Beach Story
7.0%

The Palm Beach Story

Aug 28, 1942

Cimarron
5.6%

Cimarron

Jan 26, 1931

The Ladies Man
6.3%

The Ladies Man

Jun 21, 1961

City Girl
7.4%

City Girl

Jan 12, 1930

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Acting

The Marshal of Gunsight Pass
1961
The Ladies Man as Pet Shop Owner
1961
The Silent Call as Sid
1958
Man with a Camera
1958
Lawman
1958
The Sheepman as Town Loafer (uncredited)
1957
Maverick
1957
M Squad as Edwin Winkler
1957
Sugarfoot as Barber
1957
The Big Caper as Falkenburg
1956
State Trooper
1956
Come Next Spring as Shorty Wilkins
1955
Lucy Gallant as Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Pop Henderson
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Zack Martin
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Ben White
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Tavern Customer
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Piano Player
1955
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops as Wagon Driver
1954
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1953
Those Redheads from Seattle as Dan Taylor
1953
The Stranger Wore a Gun as Jake Hooper
1952
The Blazing Forest as Beans
1951
The Adventures of Boston Blackie
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 Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith
1938
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok as Jim Blakely
1938
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
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 Cheyenne Kid as Bush (as Rosco Ates)
1933
The Past of Mary Holmes as Bill-poster Klondike
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
The Great Lover as Rosco
1931
Too Many Cooks as Mr. Wilson
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
City Girl as Reaper
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