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.
Acted in 105
1960s
- 1961
The Ladies Man
Pet Shop Owner
The Silent Call
Sid
1950s
- 1958
Man with a Camera
TV
The Sheepman
Town Loafer (uncredited)
- 1957
The Big Caper
Falkenburg
- 1956
Come Next Spring
Shorty Wilkins
- 1955
Lucy Gallant
Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Wagon Driver
- 1954
- 1953
Those Redheads from Seattle
Dan Taylor
- 1952
The Blazing Forest
Beans
- 1951
- 1950
Father's Wild Game
Rancher
Hills of Oklahoma
Dismal - the Cook
1940s
- 1948
Thunder in the Pines
Wheezer, Boomer's head logger
Inner Sanctum
Willie
The Tioga Kid
Soapy
The Hawk of Powder River
Soapy Jones
The Westward Trail
Soapy Jones
Tornado Range
Soapy Jones
Check Your Guns
Soapy Jones
- 1947
Shadow Valley
Soapy Jones
Black Hills
Soapy Jones
West to Glory
Soapy Jones
Range Beyond the Blue
Soapy Jones
Wild Country
Soapy Jones
- 1946
Wild West
Soapy Jones
Stars Over Texas
Soapy Jones
Down Missouri Way
Pappy
Tumbleweed Trail
Soapy Jones
Colorado Serenade
Soapy
- 1944
Can't Help Singing
Lemuel (uncredited)
The Great Moment
Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
- 1942
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
Police Chief Dan Cady
- 1941
Birth of the Blues
Cab Driver (uncredited)
One Foot in Heaven
George Reynolds (uncredited)
I'll Sell My Life
Happy Hogan
Reg'lar Fellers
Emory McQuade
She Knew All the Answers
Gas Station Attendant
Robin Hood of the Pecos
Jailer Guffy
- 1940
Chad Hanna
Ike Wayfish
I Want a Divorce
Process Server
Captain Caution
Chips
Untamed
Bert Dillon
You're Next!
Mr. Tillson
Rancho Grande
Ranch Hand
1930s
- 1939
Three Texas Steers
Sheriff Brown
- 1938
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith, Jim Blakely
Riders of the Black Hills
Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)
- 1937
God's Country and the Woman
Gander Hopkins
- 1935
On the Wagon
Elmer
Why Pay Rent?
Elmer Whipple
The People's Enemy
Slip Laflin
- 1934
Dizzy & Daffy
'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
Woman in the Dark
Tommy Logan
So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
Elmer Whipple
She Made Her Bed
Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)
Merry Wives of Reno
The Trapper
- 1933
Golden Harvest
Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
Scarlet River
Ulysses
What! No Beer?
Schultz
Lucky Devils
Gabby
The Cheyenne Kid
Bush (as Rosco Ates)
The Past of Mary Holmes
Bill-poster Klondike
- 1932
Sham Poo, the Magician
Tourist
Renegades of the West
Dr. Henry Fawcett
Come on Danger!
Rusty (as Rosco Ates)
Hold 'Em Jail
Slippery Sam Brown
The Roadhouse Murder
Edmund Joyce
Young Bride
Pool Room Bartender Mike
Ladies of the Jury
Andrew MacKaig
The Rainbow Trail
Ike Wilkins
- 1931
The Big Shot
Rusty
The Champ
Sponge
The Great Lover
Rosco
Too Many Cooks
Mr. Wilson
A Free Soul
Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)
Politics
Peter Higgins
Reducing
Ticket Agent
- 1930
Billy the Kid
Old Stuff
Those Three French Girls
Elmer (uncredited)
Check and Double Check
Brother Arthur
Soup to Nuts
Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
The Big House
Putnam
Double Cross Roads
Ticket Agent
Appearances2
1950s
- 1955
1930s
- 1932
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Self