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Roscoe Ates

Roscoe Ates

Birthday: 1895-01-20 | Place of Birth: Grange, Mississippi, USA

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2018
Schlitzie: One of Us

as    Himself (archive footage)

1955
1953
Those Redheads from Seattle

as    Dan Taylor

1952
The Blazing Forest

as    Beans

1950
Hills of Oklahoma

as    Dismal - the Cook

1948
The Tioga Kid

as    Soapy

1948
Inner Sanctum

as    Willie

1947
Shadow Valley

as    Soapy Jones

1947
Black Hills

as    Soapy Jones

1947
Wild Country

as    Soapy Jones

1946
Down Missouri Way

as    Pappy

1946
Colorado Serenade

as    Soapy

1946
Tumbleweed Trail

as    Soapy Jones

1942
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

as    Police Chief Dan Cady

1941
Reg'lar Fellers

as    Emory McQuade

1941
I'll Sell My Life

as    Happy Hogan

1940
Captain Caution

as    Chips

1940
Chad Hanna

as    Ike Wayfish

1939
Three Texas Steers

as    Sheriff Brown

1938
1938
Riders of the Black Hills

as    Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)

1935
The People's Enemy

as    Slip Laflin

1934
She Made Her Bed

as    Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)

1934
Woman in the Dark

as    Tommy Logan

1933
The Cheyenne Kid

as    Bush (as Rosco Ates)

1933
Alice in Wonderland

as    Fish

1933
King Kong

as    Press Photographer (uncredited)

1933
Scarlet River

as    Ulysses

1932
Freaks

as    Roscoe