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.

Filmography

• 1961The Ladies Man — Pet Shop Owner
• 1961The Silent Call — Sid
• Lawman
• Man with a Camera
• 1958The Sheepman — Town Loafer (uncredited)
• M Squad — Edwin Winkler
• Maverick — Albert
• Sugarfoot — Barber
• 1957The Big Caper — Falkenburg
• Wagon Train — Old Timer
• 1956Come Next Spring — Shorty Wilkins
• State Trooper
• 1955Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops — Wagon Driver
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Pop Henderson, Zack Martin, Ben White, Tavern Customer, Piano Player
• 1955Lucy Gallant — Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
• The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
• 1953The Stranger Wore a Gun — Jake Hooper
• 1953Those Redheads from Seattle — Dan Taylor
• 1952The Blazing Forest — Beans
• Boston Blackie
• 1950Father's Wild Game — Rancher
• 1950Hills of Oklahoma — Dismal - the Cook
• The Marshal of Gunsight Pass
• 1948Check Your Guns — Soapy Jones
• 1948Inner Sanctum — Willie
• 1948The Hawk of Powder River — Soapy Jones
• 1948The Tioga Kid — Soapy
• 1948The Westward Trail — Soapy Jones
• 1948Thunder in the Pines — Wheezer, Boomer's head logger
• 1948Tornado Range — Soapy Jones
• 1947Black Hills — Soapy Jones
• 1947Range Beyond the Blue — Soapy Jones
• 1947Shadow Valley — Soapy Jones
• 1947West to Glory — Soapy Jones
• 1947Wild Country — Soapy Jones
• 1946Colorado Serenade — Soapy
• 1946Down Missouri Way — Pappy
• 1946Driftin' River — Soapy
• 1946Stars Over Texas — Soapy Jones
• 1946Tumbleweed Trail — Soapy Jones
• 1946Wild West — Soapy Jones
• 1944Can't Help Singing — Lemuel (uncredited)
• 1944The Great Moment — Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
• 1942The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine — Police Chief Dan Cady
• 1942The Palm Beach Story — Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club
• 1941Bad Men of Missouri — Lafe
• 1941Birth of the Blues — Cab Driver (uncredited)
• 1941I'll Sell My Life — Happy Hogan
• 1941One Foot in Heaven — George Reynolds (uncredited)
• 1941Reg'lar Fellers — Emory McQuade
• 1941Robin Hood of the Pecos — Jailer Guffy
• 1941She Knew All the Answers — Gas Station Attendant
• 1941Ziegfeld Girl — Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)
• 1940Captain Caution — Chips
• 1940Chad Hanna — Ike Wayfish
• 1940I Want a Divorce — Process Server
• 1940Rancho Grande — Ranch Hand
• 1940The Cowboy from Sundown — Deputy Gloomy Day
• 1940Untamed — Bert Dillon
• 1940You're Next! — Mr. Tillson
• 1939Gone with the Wind — Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)
• 1939Three Texas Steers — Sheriff Brown
• 1938Riders of the Black Hills — Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)
• 1938The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok — Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith, Jim Blakely
• 1937God's Country and the Woman — Gander Hopkins
• 1936Fair Exchange — Elmer Goodge
• 1935On the Wagon — Elmer
• 1935The People's Enemy — Slip Laflin
• 1935Why Pay Rent? — Elmer Whipple
• 1934Dizzy & Daffy — 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire
• 1934Merry Wives of Reno — The Trapper
• 1934She Made Her Bed — Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)
• 1934So You Won't T-T-T-Talk — Elmer Whipple
• 1934Woman in the Dark — Tommy Logan
• 1933Alice in Wonderland — Fish
• 1933Golden Harvest — Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
• 1933King Kong — Press Photographer (uncredited)
• 1933Lucky Devils — Gabby
• 1933Scarlet River — Ulysses
• 1933The Cheyenne Kid — Bush (as Rosco Ates)
• 1933The Past of Mary Holmes — Bill-poster Klondike
• 1933What! No Beer? — Schultz
• 1932Come on Danger! — Rusty (as Rosco Ates)
• 1932Freaks — Roscoe
• 1932Hold 'Em Jail — Slippery Sam Brown
• 1932Ladies of the Jury — Andrew MacKaig
• 1932Never the Twins Shall Meet — Alfred Guppy / Albert Guppy
• 1932Renegades of the West — Dr. Henry Fawcett
• 1932Sham Poo, the Magician — Tourist
• 1932The Rainbow Trail — Ike Wilkins
• 1932The Roadhouse Murder — Edmund Joyce
• 1932Young Bride — Pool Room Bartender Mike
• 1931A Free Soul — Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)
• 1931Cimarron — Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)
• 1931Politics — Peter Higgins
• 1931Reducing — Ticket Agent
• 1931The Big Shot — Rusty
• 1931The Champ — Sponge
• 1931The Great Lover — Rosco
• 1931Too Many Cooks — Mr. Wilson
• 1930Billy the Kid — Old Stuff
• 1930Check and Double Check — Brother Arthur
• 1930City Girl — Reaper
• 1930Double Cross Roads — Ticket Agent
• 1930Love in the Rough — Proprietor
• 1930Soup to Nuts — Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
• 1930The Big House — Putnam
• 1930Those Three French Girls — Elmer (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (3)

• MGM Parade — Self
• 1933Signing 'em Up — Himself
• 1932Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 — Self