Roscoe Ates

from Grange, Mississippi, USA

Artwork for Gone with the WindImage of 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.

Timeline

1961Aged 66

  • Poster for The Silent Call

    Sid

  • Poster for The Ladies Man

    Pet Shop Owner

1958Aged 63

  • Poster for The Sheepman

    Town Loafer (uncredited)

1957Aged 62

  • Poster for The Big Caper

    Falkenburg

1956Aged 61

  • Poster for Come Next Spring

    Shorty Wilkins

1955Aged 60

  • Poster for Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

    Wagon Driver

  • Poster for Lucy Gallant

    Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

1953Aged 58

  • Poster for The Stranger Wore a Gun

    Jake Hooper

  • Poster for Those Redheads from Seattle

    Dan Taylor

1952Aged 57

  • Poster for The Blazing Forest

    Beans

1950Aged 55

  • Poster for Hills of Oklahoma

    Dismal - the Cook

  • Poster for Father's Wild Game

    Rancher

1948Aged 53

  • Poster for Check Your Guns

    Soapy Jones

  • Poster for Tornado Range

    Soapy Jones

  • Poster for The Westward Trail

    Soapy Jones

  • Poster for The Hawk of Powder River

    Soapy Jones

  • Poster for The Tioga Kid

    Soapy

  • Poster for Inner Sanctum

    Willie

  • Poster for Thunder in the Pines

    Wheezer, Boomer's head logger

1947Aged 52

  • Poster for Wild Country

    Soapy Jones

  • Poster for Range Beyond the Blue

    Soapy Jones

  • Poster for West to Glory

    Soapy Jones

  • Poster for Black Hills

    Soapy Jones

  • Poster for Shadow Valley

    Soapy Jones

1946Aged 51

  • Poster for Colorado Serenade

    Soapy

  • Poster for Tumbleweed Trail

    Soapy Jones

  • Poster for Down Missouri Way

    Pappy

  • Poster for Driftin' River

    Soapy

  • Poster for Stars Over Texas

    Soapy Jones

  • Poster for Wild West

    Soapy Jones

1944Aged 49

  • Poster for The Great Moment

    Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)

  • Poster for Can't Help Singing

    Lemuel (uncredited)

1942Aged 47

  • Poster for The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine

    Police Chief Dan Cady

  • Poster for The Palm Beach Story

    Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club

1941Aged 46

  • Poster for Robin Hood of the Pecos

    Jailer Guffy

  • Poster for Ziegfeld Girl

    Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)

  • Poster for She Knew All the Answers

    Gas Station Attendant

  • Poster for Bad Men of Missouri

    Lafe

  • Poster for Reg'lar Fellers

    Emory McQuade

  • Poster for I'll Sell My Life

    Happy Hogan

  • Poster for One Foot in Heaven

    George Reynolds (uncredited)

  • Poster for Birth of the Blues

    Cab Driver (uncredited)

1940Aged 45

  • Poster for Rancho Grande

    Ranch Hand

  • Poster for You're Next!

    Mr. Tillson

  • Poster for Untamed

    Bert Dillon

  • Poster for Captain Caution

    Chips

  • Poster for The Cowboy from Sundown

    Deputy Gloomy Day

  • Poster for I Want a Divorce

    Process Server

  • Poster for Chad Hanna

    Ike Wayfish

1939Aged 44

  • Poster for Three Texas Steers

    Sheriff Brown

  • Poster for Gone with the Wind

    Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)

1938Aged 43

  • Poster for Riders of the Black Hills

    Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)

  • Poster for The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

    Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith

1937Aged 42

  • Poster for God's Country and the Woman

    Gander Hopkins

1936Aged 41

1935Aged 40

  • Poster for The People's Enemy

    Slip Laflin

  • Poster for Why Pay Rent?

    Elmer Whipple

  • Poster for On the Wagon

    Elmer

1934Aged 39

  • Poster for Merry Wives of Reno

    The Trapper

  • Poster for She Made Her Bed

    Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)

  • Poster for So You Won't T-T-T-Talk

    Elmer Whipple

  • Poster for Woman in the Dark

    Tommy Logan

  • Poster for Dizzy & Daffy

    'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire

1933Aged 38

  • Poster for The Past of Mary Holmes

    Bill-poster Klondike

  • Poster for The Cheyenne Kid

    Bush (as Rosco Ates)

  • Poster for Lucky Devils

    Gabby

  • Poster for What! No Beer?

    Schultz

  • Poster for Scarlet River

    Ulysses

  • Poster for King Kong

    Press Photographer (uncredited)

  • Poster for Golden Harvest

    Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou

  • Signing 'em Up

    Himself

  • Poster for Alice in Wonderland

    Fish

1932Aged 37

  • Poster for Freaks

    Roscoe

  • Poster for The Rainbow Trail

    Ike Wilkins

  • Poster for Ladies of the Jury

    Andrew MacKaig

  • Never the Twins Shall Meet

    Alfred Guppy / Albert Guppy

  • Poster for Young Bride

    Pool Room Bartender Mike

  • Poster for The Roadhouse Murder

    Edmund Joyce

  • Poster for Hold 'Em Jail

    Slippery Sam Brown

  • Poster for Come on Danger!

    Rusty (as Rosco Ates)

  • Poster for Hollywood on Parade No. A-3

    Self

  • Poster for Sham Poo, the Magician

    Tourist

  • Poster for Renegades of the West

    Dr. Henry Fawcett

1931Aged 36

  • Poster for Reducing

    Ticket Agent

  • Poster for Cimarron

    Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)

  • Poster for Politics

    Peter Higgins

  • Poster for A Free Soul

    Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)

  • Poster for Too Many Cooks

    Mr. Wilson

  • Poster for The Great Lover

    Rosco

  • Poster for The Champ

    Sponge

  • Poster for The Big Shot

    Rusty

1930Aged 35

  • Poster for City Girl

    Reaper

  • Poster for Double Cross Roads

    Ticket Agent

  • Poster for The Big House

    Putnam

  • Poster for Love in the Rough

    Proprietor

  • Poster for Soup to Nuts

    Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)

  • Poster for Check and Double Check

    Brother Arthur

  • Poster for Those Three French Girls

    Elmer (uncredited)

  • Poster for Billy the Kid

    Old Stuff

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