
Roscoe Ates
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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
Credits

Gone with the Wind (1939)
as Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)

King Kong (1933)
as Press Photographer (uncredited)

Freaks (1932)
as Roscoe

Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)

The Ladies Man (1961)
as Pet Shop Owner

The Sheepman (1958)
as Town Loafer (uncredited)

City Girl (1930)
as Reaper

Cimarron (1931)
as Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)

The Palm Beach Story (1942)
as Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club

Alice in Wonderland (1933)
as Fish

The Big House (1930)
as Putnam

The Champ (1931)
as Sponge

Wild Country (1947)
as Soapy Jones

Lucy Gallant (1955)
as Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

One Foot in Heaven (1941)
as George Reynolds (uncredited)

A Free Soul (1931)
as Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)

Chad Hanna (1940)
as Ike Wayfish

Colorado Serenade (1946)
as Soapy

Inner Sanctum (1948)
as Willie

Reducing (1931)
as Ticket Agent

Untamed (1940)
as Bert Dillon

The Past of Mary Holmes (1933)
as Bill-poster Klondike

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)
as Wagon Driver

The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)
as Jake Hooper

The Big Caper (1957)
as Falkenburg

The Cowboy from Sundown (1940)
as Deputy Gloomy Day

Hold 'Em Jail (1932)
as Slippery Sam Brown

The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942)
as Police Chief Dan Cady

Can't Help Singing (1944)
as Lemuel (uncredited)

Lucky Devils (1933)
as Gabby

Golden Harvest (1933)
as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou

Captain Caution (1940)
as Chips

The Great Lover (1931)
as Rosco

Billy the Kid (1930)
as Old Stuff

Those Redheads from Seattle (1953)
as Dan Taylor

Soup to Nuts (1930)
as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)

Woman in the Dark (1934)
as Tommy Logan

Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941)
as Jailer Guffy

Birth of the Blues (1941)
as Cab Driver (uncredited)

The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938)
as Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith

Scarlet River (1933)
as Ulysses

Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
as Lafe

Ladies of the Jury (1932)
as Andrew MacKaig

What! No Beer? (1933)
as Schultz

Young Bride (1932)
as Pool Room Bartender Mike

I Want a Divorce (1940)
as Process Server

Wild West (1946)
as Soapy Jones

Check and Double Check (1930)
as Brother Arthur

She Made Her Bed (1934)
as Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)

Black Hills (1947)
as Soapy Jones

The Great Moment (1944)
as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)

Riders of the Black Hills (1938)
as Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)

She Knew All the Answers (1941)
as Gas Station Attendant

Love in the Rough (1930)
as Proprietor

The People's Enemy (1935)
as Slip Laflin

Three Texas Steers (1939)
as Sheriff Brown

The Big Shot (1931)
as Rusty

God's Country and the Woman (1937)
as Gander Hopkins

Merry Wives of Reno (1934)
as The Trapper

Those Three French Girls (1930)
as Elmer (uncredited)

Shadow Valley (1947)
as Soapy Jones

Father's Wild Game (1950)
as Rancher

Come Next Spring (1956)
as Shorty Wilkins

The Hawk of Powder River (1948)
as Soapy Jones

Thunder in the Pines (1948)
as Wheezer, Boomer's head logger

Down Missouri Way (1946)
as Pappy

Hollywood on Parade No. A-3 (1932)
as Self

Renegades of the West (1932)
as Dr. Henry Fawcett
Never the Twins Shall Meet (1932)
as Alfred Guppy / Albert Guppy

Tornado Range (1948)
as Soapy Jones

Too Many Cooks (1931)
as Mr. Wilson

The Rainbow Trail (1932)
as Ike Wilkins

The Blazing Forest (1952)
as Beans

Sham Poo, the Magician (1932)
as Tourist

Reg'lar Fellers (1941)
as Emory McQuade

Politics (1931)
as Peter Higgins

Double Cross Roads (1930)
as Ticket Agent

The Westward Trail (1948)
as Soapy Jones

The Tioga Kid (1948)
as Soapy

Check Your Guns (1948)
as Soapy Jones

Come on Danger! (1932)
as Rusty (as Rosco Ates)

The Silent Call (1961)
as Sid

On the Wagon (1935)
as Elmer

You're Next! (1940)
as Mr. Tillson

Tumbleweed Trail (1946)
as Soapy Jones

Driftin' River (1946)
as Soapy

West to Glory (1947)
as Soapy Jones

I'll Sell My Life (1941)
as Happy Hogan

The Roadhouse Murder (1932)
as Edmund Joyce

Stars Over Texas (1946)
as Soapy Jones

Hills of Oklahoma (1950)
as Dismal - the Cook
Fair Exchange (1936)
as Elmer Goodge

Dizzy & Daffy (1934)
as 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the Umpire

Range Beyond the Blue (1947)
as Soapy Jones

Rancho Grande (1940)
as Ranch Hand

Why Pay Rent? (1935)
as Elmer Whipple

The Cheyenne Kid (1933)
as Bush (as Rosco Ates)

So You Won't T-T-T-Talk (1934)
as Elmer Whipple
Signing 'em Up (1933)
as Himself





