Roscoe Ates
Date of birth: 1895-01-19
Place of birth: Grange, Mississippi, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Roscoe Blevel Ates, Rosco Ates
Biography
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 Palm Beach Story
1942-08-28
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry, de
Alice in Wonderland
1933-12-18
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderla
City Girl
1930-01-12
A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the inte
The Champ
1931-11-21
A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
Inner Sanctum
1948-10-15
A killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.
Can't Help Singing
1944-12-25
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young arm
The Big Caper
1957-03-28
A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.
What! No Beer?
1933-02-10
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters
Sham Poo, the Magician
1932-11-25
Hugh Herbert and Roscoe Ates are in a bar where all the men wear fezzes. They are trying to make tim
The People's Enemy
1935-04-29
Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by
Birth of the Blues
1941-11-07
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts
Merry Wives of Reno
1934-04-18
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
Three Texas Steers
1939-05-12
Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons
God's Country and the Woman
1937-01-16
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve
Chad Hanna
1940-12-25
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls i
Black Hills
1947-10-26
When Hadley finds gold on his land, Kirby kills him and then goes after Hadley's ranch. After Eddie
The Roadhouse Murder
1932-04-28
After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper
The Great Lover
1931-07-18
An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
Billy the Kid
1930-10-16
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted
Dizzy & Daffy
1934-12-14
A half-blind minor league pitcher meets, and nicknames, Dizzy and Daffy Dean, who go on to play for
Politics
1931-02-26
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
The Big Shot
1931-12-31
A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to
Woman in the Dark
1934-11-08
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in a
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
1932-10-20
Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1938-06-30
A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S.
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1938-06-30
A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S.
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
1942-03-27
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify
Wild Country
1947-01-17
Caxton has broken out of prison and Eddie has been sent to bring him in. Caxton is known by the polk
The Stranger Wore a Gun
1953-07-30
Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wante
I Want a Divorce
1940-09-20
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
Too Many Cooks
1931-07-18
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause
Tumbleweed Trail
1946-07-19
Eddie Dean's assignment is to thwart the efforts of a crooked gambler, Brad Barton, to take over the
The Tioga Kid
1948-06-17
Ranger Eddie Dean is looking for the outlaw the Tioga Kid, a man he closely resembles. He runs into
Colorado Serenade
1946-06-30
Duke Dillon has his gang robbing stagecoaches carrying gold which is then melted down by his father.
Driftin' River
1946-10-01
Eddie Dean (Eddie Dean) and his partner Soapy Jones (Roscoe Ates), under government orders, proceed
Young Bride
1932-04-08
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
Come Next Spring
1956-03-09
Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed
Reducing
1931-01-03
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out
Ladies of the Jury
1932-02-02
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus gi
The Blazing Forest
1952-12-01
Estranged brothers (John Payne, Richard Arlen) find themselves on the same lumberjack crew hired by
Lucky Devils
1933-02-03
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
Scarlet River
1933-03-10
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake'
On the Wagon
1935-08-24
Henry and Elmer stay out all night, then fear returning home because of their formidable mother-in-l
I'll Sell My Life
1941-09-12
A woman hoping to raise cash to pay for an operation to restore her blind brother's eyesight finds h
The Hawk of Powder River
1948-04-09
B-western starring Eddie Dean as a singing lawman who comes to the aid of a pretty rancher (June Car
Ziegfeld Girl
1941-04-25
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautif
The Sheepman
1958-05-01
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as
Cimarron
1931-01-26
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a
Gone with the Wind
1939-12-15
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof
You're Next!
1940-05-03
Two goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad scie
Tornado Range
1948-02-21
Tornado Range is one of five Eddie Dean westerns originally produced by PRC in 1947 but released the
Untamed
1940-07-24
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community f
Shadow Valley
1947-11-29
At least 10 percent of the 58-minute Eddie Dean western Shadow Valley is comprised of stock shots fr
Reg'lar Fellers
1941-09-05
Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the "Reg'lar Fellers", and one girl-feller, tinker with bui
The Great Moment
1944-07-18
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia
Hold 'Em Jail
1932-08-19
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship
Check and Double Check
1930-10-02
Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a so
Captain Caution
1940-08-09
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British d
The Cheyenne Kid
1933-01-20
Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting an ou
Down Missouri Way
1946-08-15
When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a ne
Riders of the Black Hills
1938-06-15
Riders of the Black Hills is a 1938 American Western directed by George Sherman. The intrepid cowboy
She Made Her Bed
1934-04-26
"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers)
The Ladies Man
1961-06-21
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a
Renegades of the West
1932-11-25
A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.
The Cowboy from Sundown
1940-09-05
The drought-plagued ranchers of Sundown have to market their cattle at a loss in order to meet mortg
The Silent Call
1961-05-10
Young Guy Brancato and parents have to move from Elko, Nevada to Los Angeles, California, they are
King Kong
1933-03-15
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has
Love in the Rough
1930-09-05
When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he concea
Those Three French Girls
1930-10-10
An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and lea
Fair Exchange
1936-09-14
“Criminologist stages the theft of a picture to thwart his son's ambitions to be a detective.” - BFI
Thunder in the Pines
1948-11-11
Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting c
Stars Over Texas
1946-11-18
Eddie Dean is a Cattlemen's Association agent investigating a serious rash of rustlings along with s
Hills of Oklahoma
1950-06-01
In this remake of Gene Autry's 1942 "Call of the Canyon", Rex Allen, the newly-elected head of the c
Rancho Grande
1940-03-22
A ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure.
Robin Hood of the Pecos
1941-01-14
Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Fol
Wild West
1946-12-01
Eddie and his sidekicks have been called in to help get a new telegraph line through. Dawson and his
Range Beyond the Blue
1947-03-16
Singing cowboy Eddie Dean and his sidekick Soapy (Roscoe Ates) enter into the thick of things when t
The Westward Trail
1948-03-13
Ann and Tom Howard arrive from the east to take up ranching. But Tom wants to return and forges his
West to Glory
1947-04-11
Two con-men from the East come out West to join up with Avery. They plan to steal the Lopez diamond
Golden Harvest
1933-09-21
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious
Check Your Guns
1948-01-24
Singing sheriff enacts old west gun control to thwart outlaws and crooked judge.
Bad Men of Missouri
1941-07-26
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of Wi
Those Redheads from Seattle
1953-10-16
A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.
Soup to Nuts
1930-09-28
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions
So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
1934-11-01
A hen-pecked husband takes his shrewish wife, and her obnoxious little brother, on a weekend camping
Why Pay Rent?
1935-05-04
Elmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds
Lucy Gallant
1955-10-20
A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil
The Big House
1930-06-14
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he m
The Past of Mary Holmes
1933-01-20
Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down s
Come on Danger!
1932-09-23
Sam Dunning, one of the wealthiest ranchers in the Pecos Valley is found dead with a bullet in his b
She Knew All the Answers
1941-05-13
A rich playboy wants to marry a chorus girl, but he'll lose his fortune if his trustee doesn't appro
A Free Soul
1931-06-02
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when hi
Father's Wild Game
1950-12-03
The fourth entry in Monogram's "Father" series. Henry Latham decides he'll save money by hunting for
Signing 'em Up
1933-12-01
An all-star short designed to promote the National Recovery Act.
The Rainbow Trail
1932-01-03
The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's
Freaks
1932-01-01
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his defor
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
1955-02-02
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They de
One Foot in Heaven
1941-11-01
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Double Cross Roads
1930-04-20
Ex-convict David Harvey attempts to go straight and settles in a small town where he meets and falls