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Roscoe Ates
Acting
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.
BODY OF WORK
Roscoe Ates's Filmography
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The Ladies Man
as Pet Shop Owner
The Silent Call
as Sid
The Sheepman
as Town Loafer (uncredited)
The Big Caper
as Falkenburg
Come Next Spring
as Shorty Wilkins
Lucy Gallant
as Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
as Wagon Driver
Those Redheads from Seattle
as Dan Taylor
The Stranger Wore a Gun
as Jake Hooper
The Blazing Forest
as Beans
Father's Wild Game
as Rancher
Hills of Oklahoma
as Dismal - the Cook
Thunder in the Pines
as Wheezer, Boomer's head logger
Inner Sanctum
as Willie
The Tioga Kid
as Soapy
The Hawk of Powder River
as Soapy Jones
The Westward Trail
as Soapy Jones
Tornado Range
as Soapy Jones
Check Your Guns
as Soapy Jones
Shadow Valley
as Soapy Jones
Black Hills
as Soapy Jones
West to Glory
as Soapy Jones
Range Beyond the Blue
as Soapy Jones
Wild Country
as Soapy Jones
Wild West
as Soapy Jones
Stars Over Texas
as Soapy Jones
Driftin' River
as Soapy
Down Missouri Way
as Pappy
Tumbleweed Trail
as Soapy Jones
Colorado Serenade
as Soapy
Can't Help Singing
as Lemuel (uncredited)
The Great Moment
as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
The Palm Beach Story
as Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
as Police Chief Dan Cady
Birth of the Blues
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
One Foot in Heaven
as George Reynolds (uncredited)
I'll Sell My Life
as Happy Hogan
Reg'lar Fellers
as Emory McQuade
Bad Men of Missouri
as Lafe
She Knew All the Answers
as Gas Station Attendant
Ziegfeld Girl
as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)
Robin Hood of the Pecos
as Jailer Guffy
Chad Hanna
as Ike Wayfish
I Want a Divorce
as Process Server
The Cowboy from Sundown
as Deputy Gloomy Day
Captain Caution
as Chips
Untamed
as Bert Dillon
You're Next!
as Mr. Tillson
Rancho Grande
as Ranch Hand
Gone with the Wind
as Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)
Three Texas Steers
as Sheriff Brown
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Jim Blakely
Riders of the Black Hills
as Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)
God's Country and the Woman
as Gander Hopkins
No Poster
Fair Exchange
as Elmer Goodge
On the Wagon
as Elmer
Why Pay Rent?
as Elmer Whipple
The People's Enemy
as Slip Laflin
Dizzy & Daffy
as 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
Woman in the Dark
as Tommy Logan
So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
as Elmer Whipple
She Made Her Bed
as Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)
Merry Wives of Reno
as The Trapper
Alice in Wonderland
as Fish
No Poster
Signing 'em Up
as Himself
Golden Harvest
as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
King Kong
as Press Photographer (uncredited)
Scarlet River
as Ulysses
What! No Beer?
as Schultz
Lucky Devils
as Gabby
The Past of Mary Holmes
as Bill-poster Klondike
The Cheyenne Kid
as Bush (as Rosco Ates)
Sham Poo, the Magician
as Tourist
Renegades of the West
as Dr. Henry Fawcett
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
as Self
Come on Danger!
as Rusty (as Rosco Ates)
Hold 'Em Jail
as Slippery Sam Brown
The Roadhouse Murder
as Edmund Joyce
Young Bride
as Pool Room Bartender Mike
No Poster
Never the Twins Shall Meet
as Alfred Guppy / Albert Guppy
Ladies of the Jury
as Andrew MacKaig
The Rainbow Trail
as Ike Wilkins
Freaks
as Roscoe
The Big Shot
as Rusty
The Champ
as Sponge
The Great Lover
as Rosco
Too Many Cooks
as Mr. Wilson
A Free Soul
as Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)
Politics
as Peter Higgins
Cimarron
as Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)
Reducing
as Ticket Agent
Billy the Kid
as Old Stuff
Those Three French Girls
as Elmer (uncredited)
Check and Double Check
as Brother Arthur
Soup to Nuts
as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
Love in the Rough
as Proprietor
The Big House
as Putnam
Double Cross Roads
as Ticket Agent
City Girl
as Reaper