
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)

Alice in Wonderland (1933)
as Fish

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

The Sheepman (1958)
as Town Loafer (uncredited)

The Ladies Man (1961)
as Pet Shop Owner

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

City Girl (1930)
as Reaper

The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)
as Jake Hooper

The Champ (1931)
as Sponge

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

The Big House (1930)
as Putnam

The Big Caper (1957)
as Falkenburg

What! No Beer? (1933)
as Schultz

Three Texas Steers (1939)
as Sheriff Brown

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

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

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

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

Captain Caution (1940)
as Chips

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

Come Next Spring (1956)
as Shorty Wilkins

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

Billy the Kid (1930)
as Old Stuff

Lucky Devils (1933)
as Gabby

Woman in the Dark (1934)
as Tommy Logan

The Roadhouse Murder (1932)
as Edmund Joyce

Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
as Lafe

Those Redheads from Seattle (1953)
as Dan Taylor

Untamed (1940)
as Bert Dillon

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

Scarlet River (1933)
as Ulysses

Golden Harvest (1933)
as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou

Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941)
as Jailer Guffy

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

I Want a Divorce (1940)
as Process Server

Reducing (1931)
as Ticket Agent

Ladies of the Jury (1932)
as Andrew MacKaig

Love in the Rough (1930)
as Proprietor

Young Bride (1932)
as Pool Room Bartender Mike

Chad Hanna (1940)
as Ike Wayfish

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

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

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

Down Missouri Way (1946)
as Pappy

Politics (1931)
as Peter Higgins

The Cowboy from Sundown (1940)
as Deputy Gloomy Day

Check and Double Check (1930)
as Brother Arthur

Hills of Oklahoma (1950)
as Dismal - the Cook

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

Wild Country (1947)
as Soapy Jones

The Great Lover (1931)
as Rosco

The Rainbow Trail (1932)
as Ike Wilkins

Stars Over Texas (1946)
as Soapy Jones

The People's Enemy (1935)
as Slip Laflin

Black Hills (1947)
as Soapy Jones

Driftin' River (1946)
as Soapy

Wild West (1946)
as Soapy Jones

Sham Poo, the Magician (1932)
as Tourist
Never the Twins Shall Meet (1932)
as Alfred Guppy / Albert Guppy

The Big Shot (1931)
as Rusty

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

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

Too Many Cooks (1931)
as Mr. Wilson

The Westward Trail (1948)
as Soapy Jones

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

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

Reg'lar Fellers (1941)
as Emory McQuade

Father's Wild Game (1950)
as Rancher

The Blazing Forest (1952)
as Beans

Renegades of the West (1932)
as Dr. Henry Fawcett

Hold 'Em Jail (1932)
as Slippery Sam Brown

West to Glory (1947)
as Soapy Jones

Tornado Range (1948)
as Soapy Jones

Why Pay Rent? (1935)
as Elmer Whipple

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

The Tioga Kid (1948)
as Soapy

Colorado Serenade (1946)
as Soapy

The Hawk of Powder River (1948)
as Soapy Jones

Merry Wives of Reno (1934)
as The Trapper

Check Your Guns (1948)
as Soapy Jones

Tumbleweed Trail (1946)
as Soapy Jones

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

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

Shadow Valley (1947)
as Soapy Jones

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

Inner Sanctum (1948)
as Willie

The Silent Call (1961)
as Sid

Rancho Grande (1940)
as Ranch Hand

Double Cross Roads (1930)
as Ticket Agent

Range Beyond the Blue (1947)
as Soapy Jones
Fair Exchange (1936)
as Elmer Goodge

On the Wagon (1935)
as Elmer

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

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

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





