
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)

City Girl (1930)
as Reaper

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

The Ladies Man (1961)
as Pet Shop Owner

The Sheepman (1958)
as Town Loafer (uncredited)

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

Alice in Wonderland (1933)
as Fish

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

The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)
as Jake Hooper

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

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

The Big Caper (1957)
as Falkenburg

Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
as Lafe

Ladies of the Jury (1932)
as Andrew MacKaig

Driftin' River (1946)
as Soapy

Check and Double Check (1930)
as Brother Arthur

The Champ (1931)
as Sponge

The Big House (1930)
as Putnam

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

Those Redheads from Seattle (1953)
as Dan Taylor

I Want a Divorce (1940)
as Process Server

Wild Country (1947)
as Soapy Jones

What! No Beer? (1933)
as Schultz

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

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

Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941)
as Jailer Guffy

So You Won't T-T-T-Talk (1934)
as Elmer Whipple

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

Golden Harvest (1933)
as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou

Black Hills (1947)
as Soapy Jones

Love in the Rough (1930)
as Proprietor

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

Wild West (1946)
as Soapy Jones

Sham Poo, the Magician (1932)
as Tourist

The Roadhouse Murder (1932)
as Edmund Joyce
Never the Twins Shall Meet (1932)
as Alfred Guppy / Albert Guppy

Range Beyond the Blue (1947)
as Soapy Jones

Scarlet River (1933)
as Ulysses

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

The Cowboy from Sundown (1940)
as Deputy Gloomy Day

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

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

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

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

Captain Caution (1940)
as Chips

Father's Wild Game (1950)
as Rancher

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

Come Next Spring (1956)
as Shorty Wilkins

Billy the Kid (1930)
as Old Stuff

Three Texas Steers (1939)
as Sheriff Brown

The People's Enemy (1935)
as Slip Laflin

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

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

Check Your Guns (1948)
as Soapy Jones

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

Politics (1931)
as Peter Higgins

Chad Hanna (1940)
as Ike Wayfish

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

Woman in the Dark (1934)
as Tommy Logan

The Silent Call (1961)
as Sid

Too Many Cooks (1931)
as Mr. Wilson

Inner Sanctum (1948)
as Willie

Stars Over Texas (1946)
as Soapy Jones

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

Untamed (1940)
as Bert Dillon

Merry Wives of Reno (1934)
as The Trapper

Down Missouri Way (1946)
as Pappy

The Hawk of Powder River (1948)
as Soapy Jones

Reducing (1931)
as Ticket Agent

Hold 'Em Jail (1932)
as Slippery Sam Brown

The Great Lover (1931)
as Rosco

West to Glory (1947)
as Soapy Jones

The Westward Trail (1948)
as Soapy Jones

The Rainbow Trail (1932)
as Ike Wilkins

Tornado Range (1948)
as Soapy Jones

On the Wagon (1935)
as Elmer

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

Hills of Oklahoma (1950)
as Dismal - the Cook

Rancho Grande (1940)
as Ranch Hand

Why Pay Rent? (1935)
as Elmer Whipple

Tumbleweed Trail (1946)
as Soapy Jones

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

Colorado Serenade (1946)
as Soapy

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

Reg'lar Fellers (1941)
as Emory McQuade

Shadow Valley (1947)
as Soapy Jones

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

Young Bride (1932)
as Pool Room Bartender Mike

Lucky Devils (1933)
as Gabby

The Big Shot (1931)
as Rusty

The Tioga Kid (1948)
as Soapy

The Blazing Forest (1952)
as Beans
Fair Exchange (1936)
as Elmer Goodge

Double Cross Roads (1930)
as Ticket Agent

You're Next! (1940)
as Mr. Tillson
Signing 'em Up (1933)
as Himself





