Roscoe Ates

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Known Credits 100

Gender Male

Birthday 1895-01-20

Day of Death 1962-03-01 (67 years old)

Place of Birth Grange, Mississippi, USA

Also Known As

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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Acting

—		The Marshal of Gunsight Pass (1 episode)
—		State Trooper (1 episode)

2018

as Himself (archive footage)

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)

1957		Maverick (4 episodes)
1957		M Squad (1 episode)
1957		Sugarfoot (1 episode)

1956

as Shorty Wilkins

1955		Lucy Gallant as Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents (3 episodes)
1955		Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops as Wagon Driver

1954

(1 episode)

1953

as Dan Taylor

1952		The Blazing Forest as Beans
1952		This Is Your Life (1 episode)

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

as Lemuel (uncredited)

1942		The Palm Beach Story as Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club
1942		The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine as Dan Kady

1941		Birth of the Blues as Cab Driver (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		Untamed as Bert Dillon
1940		I Want a Divorce as Process Server
1940		The Cowboy from Sundown as Deputy Gloomy Day
1940		Captain Caution as Chips
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

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		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		Come on Danger!
1932		Hold 'Em Jail as Slippery Sam Brown
1932		The Roadhouse Murder as Edmund Joyce
1932		Young Bride as Pool Room Bartender Mike
1932		Freaks as Roscoe
1932		Ladies of the Jury as Andrew MacKaig
1932		The Rainbow Trail as Ike Wilkins

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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