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

The Sheepman (1958)
as Town Loafer (uncredited)

Alice in Wonderland (1933)
as Fish

The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953)
as Jake Hooper

City Girl (1930)
as Reaper

Those Redheads from Seattle (1953)
as Dan Taylor

Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
as Lafe

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

I Want a Divorce (1940)
as Process Server

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

Check and Double Check (1930)
as Brother Arthur

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

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

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

The Champ (1931)
as Sponge

The Cowboy from Sundown (1940)
as Deputy Gloomy Day

Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941)
as Jailer Guffy

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

Love in the Rough (1930)
as Proprietor

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

The Hawk of Powder River (1948)
as Soapy Jones

Woman in the Dark (1934)
as Tommy Logan

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

The Big House (1930)
as Putnam

The Big Caper (1957)
as Falkenburg

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

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

Untamed (1940)
as Bert Dillon

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

Captain Caution (1940)
as Chips

Inner Sanctum (1948)
as Willie

Father's Wild Game (1950)
as Rancher

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

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

Ladies of the Jury (1932)
as Andrew MacKaig

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

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

Come Next Spring (1956)
as Shorty Wilkins

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)

Golden Harvest (1933)
as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou

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

Chad Hanna (1940)
as Ike Wayfish

Merry Wives of Reno (1934)
as The Trapper

The Great Lover (1931)
as Rosco

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

Those Three French Girls (1930)
as Elmer (uncredited)
Never the Twins Shall Meet (1932)
as Alfred Guppy / Albert Guppy

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

Range Beyond the Blue (1947)
as Soapy Jones

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

West to Glory (1947)
as Soapy Jones

The People's Enemy (1935)
as Slip Laflin

Three Texas Steers (1939)
as Sheriff Brown

Sham Poo, the Magician (1932)
as Tourist

The Westward Trail (1948)
as Soapy Jones

Wild Country (1947)
as Soapy Jones

Stars Over Texas (1946)
as Soapy Jones

Shadow Valley (1947)
as Soapy Jones

Billy the Kid (1930)
as Old Stuff

Too Many Cooks (1931)
as Mr. Wilson

Young Bride (1932)
as Pool Room Bartender Mike

What! No Beer? (1933)
as Schultz

The Tioga Kid (1948)
as Soapy

Wild West (1946)
as Soapy Jones

Black Hills (1947)
as Soapy Jones

Hills of Oklahoma (1950)
as Dismal - the Cook

Colorado Serenade (1946)
as Soapy

Tornado Range (1948)
as Soapy Jones

On the Wagon (1935)
as Elmer

Why Pay Rent? (1935)
as Elmer Whipple

Hold 'Em Jail (1932)
as Slippery Sam Brown

Down Missouri Way (1946)
as Pappy

The Blazing Forest (1952)
as Beans

Reducing (1931)
as Ticket Agent

The Roadhouse Murder (1932)
as Edmund Joyce

Politics (1931)
as Peter Higgins

Lucky Devils (1933)
as Gabby

Double Cross Roads (1930)
as Ticket Agent

The Rainbow Trail (1932)
as Ike Wilkins

The Silent Call (1961)
as Sid

Scarlet River (1933)
as Ulysses

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

Check Your Guns (1948)
as Soapy Jones

The Big Shot (1931)
as Rusty

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

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

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

Driftin' River (1946)
as Soapy

Rancho Grande (1940)
as Ranch Hand

Tumbleweed Trail (1946)
as Soapy Jones

Reg'lar Fellers (1941)
as Emory McQuade
Fair Exchange (1936)
as Elmer Goodge
Signing 'em Up (1933)
as Himself





