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