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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1895-01-19 (130 years old)

Place of Birth

Grange, Mississippi, USA

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

Acting

1961

The Ladies Man as Pet Shop Owner

1958

The Sheepman as Town Loafer (uncredited)

1957

The Big Caper as Falkenburg
M Squad as Edwin Winkler
Sugarfoot as Barber

1956

Come Next Spring as Shorty Wilkins

1955

Lucy Gallant as Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Pop Henderson
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Tavern Customer

1954

1953

1952

1951

1950

Hills of Oklahoma as Dismal - the Cook

1948

Inner Sanctum as Willie
The Tioga Kid as Soapy
Tornado Range as Soapy Jones
Thunder in the Pines as Wheezer, Boomer's head logger
The Westward Trail as Soapy Jones
Check Your Guns as Soapy Jones

1947

Black Hills as Soapy Jones
Wild Country as Soapy Jones
Shadow Valley as Soapy Jones
Range Beyond the Blue as Soapy Jones
West to Glory as Soapy Jones

1946

Tumbleweed Trail as Soapy Jones
Stars Over Texas as Soapy Jones
Wild West as Soapy Jones

1944

Can't Help Singing as Lemuel (uncredited)
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
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine as Police Chief Dan Cady

1941

Birth of the Blues as Cab Driver (uncredited)
I'll Sell My Life as Happy Hogan
Ziegfeld Girl as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)
Reg'lar Fellers as Emory McQuade
Robin Hood of the Pecos as Jailer Guffy
She Knew All the Answers as Gas Station Attendant
One Foot in Heaven as George Reynolds (uncredited)

1940

Chad Hanna as Ike Wayfish
I Want a Divorce as Process Server
You're Next! as Mr. Tillson
Untamed as Bert Dillon
The Cowboy from Sundown as Deputy Gloomy Day
Rancho Grande as Ranch Hand

1939

Three Texas Steers as Sheriff Brown
Gone with the Wind as Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)

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

The People's Enemy as Slip Laflin
On the Wagon as Elmer
Why Pay Rent? as Elmer Whipple

1934

Merry Wives of Reno as The Trapper
Dizzy & Daffy as 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
Woman in the Dark as Tommy Logan
She Made Her Bed as Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)
So You Won't T-T-T-Talk as Elmer Whipple

1933

What! No Beer? as Schultz
Lucky Devils as Gabby
Scarlet River as Ulysses
The Cheyenne Kid as Bush (as Rosco Ates)
King Kong as Press Photographer (uncredited)
Golden Harvest as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
The Past of Mary Holmes as Bill-poster Klondike
Signing 'em Up as Himself

1932

The Roadhouse Murder as Edmund Joyce
Young Bride as Pool Room Bartender Mike
Ladies of the Jury as Andrew MacKaig
Hold 'Em Jail as Slippery Sam Brown
Renegades of the West as Dr. Henry Fawcett
Come on Danger! as Rusty (as Rosco Ates)
The Rainbow Trail as Ike Wilkins
Freaks as Roscoe

1931

The Champ as Sponge
Politics as Peter Higgins
The Big Shot as Rusty
Too Many Cooks as Mr. Wilson
Reducing as Ticket Agent
Cimarron as Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)
A Free Soul as Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)

1930

City Girl as Reaper
Billy the Kid as Old Stuff
Check and Double Check as Brother Arthur
Love in the Rough as Proprietor
Those Three French Girls as Elmer (uncredited)
Soup to Nuts as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
The Big House as Putnam
Double Cross Roads as Ticket Agent

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