
Roscoe Ates
Department: Acting
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.
Known For

The Palm Beach Story
1942

Alice in Wonderland
1933

City Girl
1930

The Champ
1931

Inner Sanctum
1948

Can't Help Singing
1944

The Big Caper
1957

What! No Beer?
1933

Sham Poo, the Magician
1932

The People's Enemy
1935

Birth of the Blues
1941

Merry Wives of Reno
1934

Three Texas Steers
1939

God's Country and the Woman
1937

Chad Hanna
1940

Black Hills
1947

The Roadhouse Murder
1932

The Great Lover
1931

Billy the Kid
1930

Dizzy & Daffy
1934

Politics
1931

The Big Shot
1931

Woman in the Dark
1934

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
1932

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1938

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1938

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942

Wild Country
1947

The Stranger Wore a Gun
1953

I Want a Divorce
1940

Too Many Cooks
1931

Tumbleweed Trail
1946

The Tioga Kid
1948

Colorado Serenade
1946

Driftin' River
1946

Young Bride
1932

Come Next Spring
1956

Reducing
1931

Ladies of the Jury
1932

The Blazing Forest
1952

Lucky Devils
1933

Scarlet River
1933

On the Wagon
1935

I'll Sell My Life
1941

The Hawk of Powder River
1948

Ziegfeld Girl
1941

The Sheepman
1958

Cimarron
1931

Gone with the Wind
1939

You're Next!
1940

Tornado Range
1948

Untamed
1940

Shadow Valley
1947

Reg'lar Fellers
1941

The Great Moment
1944

Hold 'Em Jail
1932

Check and Double Check
1930

Captain Caution
1940

The Cheyenne Kid
1933

Down Missouri Way
1946

Riders of the Black Hills
1938

She Made Her Bed
1934

The Ladies Man
1961

Renegades of the West
1932

The Cowboy from Sundown
1940

The Silent Call
1961

King Kong
1933

Love in the Rough
1930

Those Three French Girls
1930

Thunder in the Pines
1948

Fair Exchange
1936

Stars Over Texas
1946

Hills of Oklahoma
1950

Rancho Grande
1940

Robin Hood of the Pecos
1941

Wild West
1946

The Westward Trail
1948

Range Beyond the Blue
1947

West to Glory
1947

Golden Harvest
1933

Check Your Guns
1948

Bad Men of Missouri
1941

Those Redheads from Seattle
1953

Soup to Nuts
1930

So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
1934

Why Pay Rent?
1935

Lucy Gallant
1955

The Big House
1930

The Past of Mary Holmes
1933

Come on Danger!
1932

She Knew All the Answers
1941

A Free Soul
1931

Father's Wild Game
1950

Signing 'em Up
1933

The Rainbow Trail
1932

Freaks
1932

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
1955

One Foot in Heaven
1941

Double Cross Roads
1930

Never the Twins Shall Meet
1932

Man with a Camera
1958

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

M Squad
1957

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1954

Lawman
1958

Sugarfoot
1957

State Trooper
1956

The Marshal of Gunsight Pass
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Boston Blackie
1951

Maverick
1957

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955

Wagon Train
1957

MGM Parade
1955

Maverick
1957