Birthday
1895/01/19
Day of death
1962/03/01 (67 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Grange, Mississippi, USA
Also know as
Roscoe Blevel Ates, Rosco Ates
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.
(1942) The Palm Beach Story
as Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club
(1933) Alice in Wonderland
as Fish
(1930) City Girl
as Reaper
(1931) The Champ
as Sponge
(1948) Inner Sanctum
as Willie
(1944) Can't Help Singing
as Lemuel (uncredited)
(1957) The Big Caper
as Falkenburg
(1933) What! No Beer?
as Schultz
(1932) Sham Poo, the Magician
as Tourist
(1935) The People's Enemy
as Slip Laflin
(1941) Birth of the Blues
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
(1934) Merry Wives of Reno
as The Trapper
(1939) Three Texas Steers
as Sheriff Brown
(1937) God's Country and the Woman
as Gander Hopkins
(1940) Chad Hanna
as Ike Wayfish
(1947) Black Hills
as Soapy Jones
(1932) The Roadhouse Murder
as Edmund Joyce
(1931) The Great Lover
as Rosco
(1930) Billy the Kid
as Old Stuff
(1934) Dizzy & Daffy
as 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
(1931) Politics
as Peter Higgins
(1931) The Big Shot
as Rusty
(1934) Woman in the Dark
as Tommy Logan
(1932) Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
as Self
(1938) The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith
(1938) The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Jim Blakely
(1942) The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
as Police Chief Dan Cady
(1947) Wild Country
as Soapy Jones
(1953) The Stranger Wore a Gun
as Jake Hooper
(1940) I Want a Divorce
as Process Server
(1931) Too Many Cooks
as Mr. Wilson
(1946) Tumbleweed Trail
as Soapy Jones
(1948) The Tioga Kid
as Soapy
(1946) Colorado Serenade
as Soapy
(1932) Young Bride
as Pool Room Bartender Mike
(1946) Driftin' River
as Soapy
(1956) Come Next Spring
as Shorty Wilkins
(1931) Reducing
as Ticket Agent
(1932) Ladies of the Jury
as Andrew MacKaig
(1952) The Blazing Forest
as Beans
(1933) Lucky Devils
as Gabby
(1933) Scarlet River
as Ulysses
(1935) On the Wagon
as Elmer
(1941) I'll Sell My Life
as Happy Hogan
(1948) The Hawk of Powder River
as Soapy Jones
(1941) Ziegfeld Girl
as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)
(1958) The Sheepman
as Town Loafer (uncredited)
(1931) Cimarron
as Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)
(1939) Gone with the Wind
as Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)
(1940) You're Next!
as Mr. Tillson
(1948) Tornado Range
as Soapy Jones
(1940) Untamed
as Bert Dillon
(1947) Shadow Valley
as Soapy Jones
(1941) Reg'lar Fellers
as Emory McQuade
(1944) The Great Moment
as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
(1932) Hold 'Em Jail
as Slippery Sam Brown
(1930) Check and Double Check
as Brother Arthur
(1940) Captain Caution
as Chips
(1933) The Cheyenne Kid
as Bush (as Rosco Ates)
(1946) Down Missouri Way
as Pappy
(1938) Riders of the Black Hills
as Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)
(1934) She Made Her Bed
as Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)
(1961) The Ladies Man
as Pet Shop Owner
(1932) Renegades of the West
as Dr. Henry Fawcett
(1940) The Cowboy from Sundown
as Deputy Gloomy Day
(1961) The Silent Call
as Sid
(1933) King Kong
as Press Photographer (uncredited)
(1930) Love in the Rough
as Proprietor
(1930) Those Three French Girls
as Elmer (uncredited)
(1948) Thunder in the Pines
as Wheezer, Boomer's head logger
(1936) Fair Exchange
as Elmer Goodge
(1946) Stars Over Texas
as Soapy Jones
(1950) Hills of Oklahoma
as Dismal - the Cook
(1940) Rancho Grande
as Ranch Hand
(1941) Robin Hood of the Pecos
as Jailer Guffy
(1946) Wild West
as Soapy Jones
(1948) The Westward Trail
as Soapy Jones
(1947) Range Beyond the Blue
as Soapy Jones
(1947) West to Glory
as Soapy Jones
(1933) Golden Harvest
as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
(1948) Check Your Guns
as Soapy Jones
(1941) Bad Men of Missouri
as Lafe
(1953) Those Redheads from Seattle
as Dan Taylor
(1930) Soup to Nuts
as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
(1934) So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
as Elmer Whipple
(1935) Why Pay Rent?
as Elmer Whipple
(1955) Lucy Gallant
as Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
(1930) The Big House
as Putnam
(1933) The Past of Mary Holmes
as Bill-poster Klondike
(1932) Come on Danger!
as Rusty (as Rosco Ates)
(1941) She Knew All the Answers
as Gas Station Attendant
(1931) A Free Soul
as Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)
(1950) Father's Wild Game
as Rancher
(1933) Signing 'em Up
as Himself
(1932) The Rainbow Trail
as Ike Wilkins
(1932) Freaks
as Roscoe
(1955) Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
as Wagon Driver
(1941) One Foot in Heaven
as George Reynolds (uncredited)
(1958) Man with a Camera
as ---
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Pop Henderson
(1957) M Squad
as Edwin Winkler
(1954) The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
as ---
(1958) Lawman
as ---
(1957) Sugarfoot
as Barber
(1956) State Trooper
as ---
The Marshal of Gunsight Pass
as ---
(1951) The Adventures of Boston Blackie
as ---
(1957) Maverick
as ---
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Zack Martin
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Ben White
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Tavern Customer
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Piano Player