Actor

Roscoe Ates

Birthday: January 19, 1895

Born in: 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.

Movie Credits

The Ladies Man (1961) as Pet Shop Owner
Age: 66
The Silent Call (1961) as Sid
Age: 66
The Sheepman (1958) as Town Loafer (uncredited)
Age: 63
The Big Caper (1957) as Falkenburg
Age: 62
Come Next Spring (1956) as Shorty Wilkins
Age: 61
Lucy Gallant (1955) as Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Age: 60
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955) as Wagon Driver
Age: 60
Those Redheads from Seattle (1953) as Dan Taylor
Age: 58
The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953) as Jake Hooper
Age: 58
The Blazing Forest (1952) as Beans
Age: 57
Father's Wild Game (1950) as Rancher
Age: 55
Hills of Oklahoma (1950) as Dismal - the Cook
Age: 55
Thunder in the Pines (1948) as Wheezer, Boomer's head logger
Age: 53
Inner Sanctum (1948) as Willie
Age: 53
The Tioga Kid (1948) as Soapy
Age: 53
The Hawk of Powder River (1948) as Soapy Jones
Age: 53
The Westward Trail (1948) as Soapy Jones
Age: 53
Tornado Range (1948) as Soapy Jones
Age: 53
Check Your Guns (1948) as Soapy Jones
Age: 53
Shadow Valley (1947) as Soapy Jones
Age: 52
Black Hills (1947) as Soapy Jones
Age: 52
West to Glory (1947) as Soapy Jones
Age: 52
Range Beyond the Blue (1947) as Soapy Jones
Age: 52
Wild Country (1947) as Soapy Jones
Age: 51
Wild West (1946) as Soapy Jones
Age: 51
Stars Over Texas (1946) as Soapy Jones
Age: 51
Driftin' River (1946) as Soapy
Age: 51
Down Missouri Way (1946) as Pappy
Age: 51
Tumbleweed Trail (1946) as Soapy Jones
Age: 51
Colorado Serenade (1946) as Soapy
Age: 51
Can't Help Singing (1944) as Lemuel (uncredited)
Age: 49
The Great Moment (1944) as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
Age: 49
The Palm Beach Story (1942) as Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club
Age: 47
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942) as Police Chief Dan Cady
Age: 47
Birth of the Blues (1941) as Cab Driver (uncredited)
Age: 46
One Foot in Heaven (1941) as George Reynolds (uncredited)
Age: 46
I'll Sell My Life (1941) as Happy Hogan
Age: 46
Reg'lar Fellers (1941) as Emory McQuade
Age: 46
Bad Men of Missouri (1941) as Lafe
Age: 46
She Knew All the Answers (1941) as Gas Station Attendant
Age: 46
Ziegfeld Girl (1941) as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)
Age: 46
Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941) as Jailer Guffy
Age: 45
Chad Hanna (1940) as Ike Wayfish
Age: 45
I Want a Divorce (1940) as Process Server
Age: 45
The Cowboy from Sundown (1940) as Deputy Gloomy Day
Age: 45
Captain Caution (1940) as Chips
Age: 45
Untamed (1940) as Bert Dillon
Age: 45
You're Next! (1940) as Mr. Tillson
Age: 45
Rancho Grande (1940) as Ranch Hand
Age: 45
Gone with the Wind (1939) as Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)
Age: 44
Three Texas Steers (1939) as Sheriff Brown
Age: 44
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938) as Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith
Age: 43
Riders of the Black Hills (1938) as Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)
Age: 43
God's Country and the Woman (1937) as Gander Hopkins
Age: 41
Fair Exchange (1936) as Elmer Goodge
Age: 41
On the Wagon (1935) as Elmer
Age: 40
Why Pay Rent? (1935) as Elmer Whipple
Age: 40
The People's Enemy (1935) as Slip Laflin
Age: 40
Dizzy & Daffy (1934) as 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
Age: 39
Woman in the Dark (1934) as Tommy Logan
Age: 39
So You Won't T-T-T-Talk (1934) as Elmer Whipple
Age: 39
She Made Her Bed (1934) as Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)
Age: 39
Merry Wives of Reno (1934) as The Trapper
Age: 39
Alice in Wonderland (1933) as Fish
Age: 38
Signing 'em Up (1933) as Himself
Age: 38
Golden Harvest (1933) as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
Age: 38
King Kong (1933) as Press Photographer (uncredited)
Age: 38
Scarlet River (1933) as Ulysses
Age: 38
What! No Beer? (1933) as Schultz
Age: 38
Lucky Devils (1933) as Gabby
Age: 38
The Cheyenne Kid (1933) as Bush (as Rosco Ates)
Age: 38
The Past of Mary Holmes (1933) as Bill-poster Klondike
Age: 38
Sham Poo, the Magician (1932) as Tourist
Age: 37
Renegades of the West (1932) as Dr. Henry Fawcett
Age: 37
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 (1932) as Self
Age: 37
Come on Danger! (1932) as Rusty (as Rosco Ates)
Age: 37
Hold 'Em Jail (1932) as Slippery Sam Brown
Age: 37
The Roadhouse Murder (1932) as Edmund Joyce
Age: 37
Young Bride (1932) as Pool Room Bartender Mike
Age: 37
Ladies of the Jury (1932) as Andrew MacKaig
Age: 37
The Rainbow Trail (1932) as Ike Wilkins
Age: 36
Freaks (1932) as Roscoe
Age: 36
The Big Shot (1931) as Rusty
Age: 36
The Champ (1931) as Sponge
Age: 36
The Great Lover (1931) as Rosco
Age: 36
Too Many Cooks (1931) as Mr. Wilson
Age: 36
A Free Soul (1931) as Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)
Age: 36
Politics (1931) as Peter Higgins
Age: 36
Cimarron (1931) as Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)
Age: 36
Reducing (1931) as Ticket Agent
Age: 35
Billy the Kid (1930) as Old Stuff
Age: 35
Those Three French Girls (1930) as Elmer (uncredited)
Age: 35
Check and Double Check (1930) as Brother Arthur
Age: 35
Soup to Nuts (1930) as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
Age: 35
Love in the Rough (1930) as Proprietor
Age: 35
The Big House (1930) as Putnam
Age: 35
Double Cross Roads (1930) as Ticket Agent
Age: 35
City Girl (1930) as Reaper
Age: 34