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Roscoe Ates was an American vaudeville performer, actor of stage and screen, comedian and musician who primarily featured in western films and television. He was best known as western character Soapy Jones. He was also billed as Rosco Ates.
Birth Name
Roscoe Blevel Ates
Born
Sunday, 20 January 1895
Died
Thursday, 01 March 1962
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | Roscoe | 2007 |
| Dream On | (archive footage) (as Rosco Ates) | 1990 |
| Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch | Sidekick | 1976 |
| The Errand Boy | Ralph - Prop Man | 1961 |
| The Ladies Man | Pet Shop Owner | 1961 |
| The Silent Call | Sid | 1961 |
| Whispering Smith | Sheriff Ben Stanley | 1961 |
| Surfside 6 | Clem | 1960 |
| Outlaws | Old Timer / Bartender | 1960 |
| Shotgun Slade | Lou Nugget | 1959 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | Roscoe | 2007 |
| Dream On | (archive footage) (as Rosco Ates) | 1990 |
| Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch | Sidekick | 1976 |
| The Errand Boy | Ralph - Prop Man | 1961 |
| The Ladies Man | Pet Shop Owner | 1961 |
| The Silent Call | Sid | 1961 |
| Whispering Smith | Sheriff Ben Stanley | 1961 |
| Surfside 6 | Clem | 1960 |
| Outlaws | Old Timer / Bartender | 1960 |
| Shotgun Slade | Lou Nugget | 1959 |
| Bourbon Street Beat | Deputy Boak | 1959 |
| The Untouchables | Drunk | 1959 |
| Man with a Camera | Fenton | 1958 |
| Lawman | Ike Jenkins / Old Timer / Ike - Townsman | 1958 |
| Buckskin | Harrison | 1958 |
| The Sheepman | Town Loafer | 1958 |
| The Restless Gun | Hotel Clerk / Juniper Dunlap | 1957 |
| Maverick | Albert / Barfly / Joe the Barber / Kibitzer | 1957 |
| M Squad | Edwin Winkler | 1957 |
| Wagon Train | Old Timer / Joe - Bartender | 1957 |
| Sugarfoot | Old Timer / Lew Long / Barber | 1957 |
| Run of the Arrow | Man on Pier | 1957 |
| Short Cut to Hell | Road Driver | 1957 |
| The Big Caper | Falkenburg | 1957 |
| Tales of Wells Fargo | Flanny - Typesetter / Spoon | 1957 |
| The Gabby Hayes Show | Soapy Jones | 1956 |
| The Birds and the Bees | Vendor | 1956 |
| The Kettles in the Ozarks | Townsman | 1956 |
| Meet Me in Las Vegas | Scotty | 1956 |
| State Trooper | Dusty Peabody | 1956 |
| Come Next Spring | Shorty Wilkins | 1956 |
| Lucy Gallant | Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk | 1955 |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Ben White / Cemetery Clerk / Piano Player / Pop Henderson / Tavern Customer / Zack Martin | 1955 |
| The Adventures of Champion | Canary Twigg | 1955 |
| MGM Parade | Sponge in 'The Champ' | 1955 |
| Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops | Wagon Driver | 1955 |
| The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin | Jorgenson | 1954 |
| The Mickey Rooney Show | Henry | 1954 |
| Annie Oakley | Neighborly Walsh / Telegrapher Curly Dawes | 1954 |
| Those Redheads from Seattle | Dan Taylor | 1953 |
| The Stranger Wore a Gun | Jake Hooper - Stage Driver | 1953 |
| The Blazing Forest | Beans | 1952 |
| This Is Your Life | Self | 1952 |
| My Little Margie | Zeke | 1952 |
| Death Valley Days | Pop McCrary | 1952 |
| Trail Guide | Stammering Man | 1952 |
| Honeychile | Bob | 1951 |
| Schlitz Playhouse | Emil | 1951 |
| The Red Skelton Hour | Sheriff | 1951 |
| Boston Blackie | Prof. Edgar Franklin | 1951 |
| Big Town | Ed Crowley | 1950 |
| Hills of Oklahoma | Dismal - the Cook | 1950 |
| The Marshal of Gunsight Pass | Deputy Roscoe | 1950 |
| The Cisco Kid | Henry Wilson | 1950 |
| Thunder in the Pines | Wheezer - Boomer's Head Logger / Wheezer, Boomer's head logger | 1948 |
| Inner Sanctum | Willie | 1948 |
| The Tioga Kid | Soapy / Soapy Jones | 1948 |
| The Hawk of Powder River | Soapy Jones | 1948 |
| The Westward Trail | Soapy Jones | 1948 |
| Tornado Range | Soapy Jones | 1948 |
| Check Your Guns | Soapy Jones | 1948 |
| Shadow Valley | Soapy Jones | 1947 |
| Black Hills | Soapy Jones | 1947 |
| West to Glory | Soapy Jones | 1947 |
| Range Beyond the Blue | Soapy Jones | 1947 |
| Wild Country | Soapy Jones | 1947 |
| Wild West | Soapy Jones | 1946 |
| Stars Over Texas | Soapy Jones | 1946 |
| Driftin' River | Soapy Jones / Soapy | 1946 |
| Down Missouri Way | Pappy | 1946 |
| Tumbleweed Trail | Soapy Jones | 1946 |
| Colorado Serenade | Soapy | 1946 |
| Can't Help Singing | Lemuel | 1944 |
| The Great Moment | Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden | 1944 |
| The Palm Beach Story | Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club | 1942 |
| The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine | Dan Kady / Police Chief Dan Cady | 1942 |
| Sullivan's Travels | Hollywood Diner Counterman | 1941 |
| Birth of the Blues | Cab Driver | 1941 |
| Birth of the Oases | Cab Driver | 1941 |
| One Foot in Heaven | George Reynolds | 1941 |
| I'll Sell My Life | Happy Hogan | 1941 |
| Reg'lar Fellers | Emory McQuade | 1941 |
| Bad Men of Missouri | Lafe | 1941 |
| Mountain Moonlight | Gardener | 1941 |
| She Knew All the Answers | Gas Station Attendant | 1941 |
| Ziegfeld Girl | Janitor Changing Pictures / Janitor Changing Pictures (Uncredited) | 1941 |
| Robin Hood of the Pecos | Jailer Guffy | 1941 |
| Chad Hanna | Ike Wayfish | 1940 |
| I Want a Divorce | Process Server | 1940 |
| Captain Caution | Chips | 1940 |
| Untamed | Bert Dillon | 1940 |
| The Cowboy from Sundown | Deputy Gloomy Day | 1940 |
| You're Next! | Mr. Tillson | 1940 |
| Rancho Grande | Ranch Hand / Tex | 1940 |
| Gone with the Wind | Convalescent Soldier | 1940 |
| Three Texas Steers | Sheriff Brown | 1939 |
| The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok | Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith / Jim Blakely | 1938 |
| Riders of the Black Hills | Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates) / Sheriff Brown | 1938 |
| God's Country and the Woman | Gander Hopkins | 1937 |
| Fair Exchange | Elmer Goodge | 1936 |
| On the Wagon | Elmer | 1935 |
| The People's Enemy | Slip Laflin | 1935 |
| Dizzy & Daffy | 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire | 1934 |
| Woman in the Dark | Tommy Logan | 1934 |
| She Made Her Bed | Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates) / Santa Fe | 1934 |
| Merry Wives of Reno | The Trapper | 1934 |
| Alice in Wonderland | Fish | 1933 |
| Golden Harvest | Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou | 1933 |
| King Kong | Press Photographer | 1933 |
| Scarlet River | Ulysses | 1933 |
| What-No Beer? | Schultz | 1933 |
| Lucky Devils | Gabby | 1933 |
| The Past of Mary Holmes | Bill-Poster Klondike | 1933 |
| The Cheyenne Kid | Bush (as Rosco Ates) / Bush | 1933 |
| Renegades of the West | Dr. Henry Fawcett | 1932 |
| Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 | Self | 1932 |
| Come on Danger! | Rusty (as Rosco Ates) / Rusty | 1932 |
| Hold 'Em Jail | Slippery Sam Brown | 1932 |
| The Roadhouse Murder | Edmund Joyce | 1932 |
| Young Bride | Mike, the Pool Room Bartender / Pool Room Bartender Mike | 1932 |
| Never the Twins Shall Meet | Alfred Guppy / Albert Guppy | 1932 |
| Freaks | Roscoe | 1932 |
| Ladies of the Jury | Andrew MacKaig | 1932 |
| The Rainbow Trail | Ike Wilkins | 1932 |
| The Big Shot | Rusty, the Barber / Rusty | 1931 |
| The Champ | Sponge | 1931 |
| Politics | Peter Higgins | 1931 |
| Too Many Cooks | Mr. Wilson | 1931 |
| The Great Lover | Rosco | 1931 |
| A Free Soul | Man Shot at in Men's Room | 1931 |
| Cimarron | Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates) / Jesse Rickey | 1931 |
| Reducing | Ticket Agent / Stuttering Ticket Agent | 1931 |
| Remote Control | Stuttering Piccolo Player | 1930 |
| Billy the Kid | Old Stuff | 1930 |
| Those Three French Girls | Elmer | 1930 |
| Check and Double Check | Brother Arthur | 1930 |
| Soup to Nuts | Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop | 1930 |
| Love in the Rough | Proprietor | 1930 |
| The Big House | Putnam | 1930 |
| Caught Short | Bit Part | 1930 |
| Double Cross Roads | Ticket Agent | 1930 |
| City Girl | Reaper | 1930 |
| South Sea Rose | Ship's Cook | 1929 |
