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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 19, 1895
Died
March 1, 1962
Place of Birth
Grange, Mississippi, USA
Also Known As
- Roscoe Blevel Ates
- Rosco Ates
Roscoe Ates
0.3 Popularity
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
Credits
The Ladies Man
as Pet Shop Owner
1961
6.3
The Silent Call
as Sid
1961
9.0
Man with a Camera
1958
4.6
Lawman
1958
5.6
The Sheepman
as Town Loafer (uncredited)
1958
6.9
Maverick
1957
6.9
M Squad
as Edwin Winkler
1957
5.2
Wagon Train
as Old Timer
1957
6.6
Sugarfoot
as Barber
1957
4.8
The Big Caper
as Falkenburg
1957
6.2
🎬
State Trooper
1956
5.0
Come Next Spring
as Shorty Wilkins
1956
5.6
Lucy Gallant
as Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1955
7.0
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Pop Henderson
1955
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Zack Martin
1955
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Ben White
1955
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Tavern Customer
1955
7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Piano Player
1955
7.8
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
as Wagon Driver
1955
6.1
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1954
6.9
Those Redheads from Seattle
as Dan Taylor
1953
5.3
The Stranger Wore a Gun
as Jake Hooper
1953
5.4
The Blazing Forest
as Beans
1952
6.0
Boston Blackie
1951
4.0
Father's Wild Game
as Rancher
1950
0.0
Hills of Oklahoma
as Dismal - the Cook
1950
0.0
Thunder in the Pines
as Wheezer, Boomer's head logger
1948
3.7
Inner Sanctum
as Willie
1948
5.0
The Tioga Kid
as Soapy
1948
5.0
The Hawk of Powder River
as Soapy Jones
1948
5.5
The Westward Trail
as Soapy Jones
1948
0.0
Tornado Range
as Soapy Jones
1948
0.0
Check Your Guns
as Soapy Jones
1948
0.0
Shadow Valley
as Soapy Jones
1947
0.0
Black Hills
as Soapy Jones
1947
0.0
West to Glory
as Soapy Jones
1947
0.0
Range Beyond the Blue
as Soapy Jones
1947
0.0
Wild Country
as Soapy Jones
1947
5.8
Wild West
as Soapy Jones
1946
0.0
Stars Over Texas
as Soapy Jones
1946
5.5
Driftin' River
as Soapy
1946
0.0
Down Missouri Way
as Pappy
1946
0.0
Tumbleweed Trail
as Soapy Jones
1946
0.0
Colorado Serenade
as Soapy
1946
0.0
Can't Help Singing
as Lemuel (uncredited)
1944
5.4
The Great Moment
as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
1944
5.6
The Palm Beach Story
as Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club
1942
7.0
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
as Police Chief Dan Cady
1942
6.0
Birth of the Blues
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
1941
6.0
One Foot in Heaven
as George Reynolds (uncredited)
1941
6.6
I'll Sell My Life
as Happy Hogan
1941
6.0
Reg'lar Fellers
as Emory McQuade
1941
3.9
Bad Men of Missouri
as Lafe
1941
5.6
She Knew All the Answers
as Gas Station Attendant
1941
6.3
Ziegfeld Girl
as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)
1941
6.5
Robin Hood of the Pecos
as Jailer Guffy
1941
5.0
Chad Hanna
as Ike Wayfish
1940
6.0
I Want a Divorce
as Process Server
1940
0.0
The Cowboy from Sundown
as Deputy Gloomy Day
1940
0.0
Captain Caution
as Chips
1940
5.6
Untamed
as Bert Dillon
1940
4.2
You're Next!
as Mr. Tillson
1940
0.0
Rancho Grande
as Ranch Hand
1940
4.0
Gone with the Wind
as Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)
1939
7.9
Three Texas Steers
as Sheriff Brown
1939
4.9
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith
1938
0.0
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Jim Blakely
1938
0.0
Riders of the Black Hills
as Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)
1938
0.0
God's Country and the Woman
as Gander Hopkins
1937
4.2
🎬
Fair Exchange
as Elmer Goodge
1936
0.0
On the Wagon
as Elmer
1935
0.0
Why Pay Rent?
as Elmer Whipple
1935
0.0
The People's Enemy
as Slip Laflin
1935
6.0
Dizzy & Daffy
as 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
1934
6.0
Woman in the Dark
as Tommy Logan
1934
6.0
So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
as Elmer Whipple
1934
3.5
She Made Her Bed
as Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)
1934
2.7
Merry Wives of Reno
as The Trapper
1934
4.0
Alice in Wonderland
as Fish
1933
6.1
🎬
Signing 'em Up
as Himself
1933
0.0
Golden Harvest
as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
1933
5.0
King Kong
as Press Photographer (uncredited)
1933
7.6
Scarlet River
as Ulysses
1933
4.5
What! No Beer?
as Schultz
1933
5.5
Lucky Devils
as Gabby
1933
6.2
The Cheyenne Kid
as Bush (as Rosco Ates)
1933
0.0
The Past of Mary Holmes
as Bill-poster Klondike
1933
0.0
Renegades of the West
as Dr. Henry Fawcett
1932
5.5
Sham Poo, the Magician
as Tourist
1932
0.0
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
as Self
1932
0.0
Come on Danger!
as Rusty (as Rosco Ates)
1932
0.0
Hold 'Em Jail
as Slippery Sam Brown
1932
6.8
The Roadhouse Murder
as Edmund Joyce
1932
4.3
Young Bride
as Pool Room Bartender Mike
1932
3.0
Ladies of the Jury
as Andrew MacKaig
1932
6.4
The Rainbow Trail
as Ike Wilkins
1932
0.0
Freaks
as Roscoe
1932
7.8
The Big Shot
as Rusty
1931
0.0
The Champ
as Sponge
1931
7.1
Too Many Cooks
as Mr. Wilson
1931
2.5
The Great Lover
as Rosco
1931
5.3
A Free Soul
as Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)
1931
6.0
Politics
as Peter Higgins
1931
6.3
Cimarron
as Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)
1931
5.6
Reducing
as Ticket Agent
1931
4.3
Billy the Kid
as Old Stuff
1930
4.3
Those Three French Girls
as Elmer (uncredited)
1930
4.0
Check and Double Check
as Brother Arthur
1930
5.3
Soup to Nuts
as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
1930
5.7
Love in the Rough
as Proprietor
1930
4.3
The Big House
as Putnam
1930
6.6
Double Cross Roads
as Ticket Agent
1930
0.0
City Girl
as Reaper
1930
7.4
🎬
The Marshal of Gunsight Pass
N/A
0.0