Roscoe Ates
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.
Gone with the Wind
as Convalescent Soldier (uncredited)The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical...
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King Kong
as Press Photographer (uncredited)Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world...
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Freaks
as RoscoeA circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his...
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The Palm Beach Story
as Fourth Member Ale and Quail ClubA New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife,...
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Cimarron
as Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates)When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat...
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The Sheepman
as Town Loafer (uncredited)A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself...
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The Stranger Wore a Gun
as Jake HooperHaving been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a...
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The Ladies Man
as Pet Shop OwnerAfter his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching...
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City Girl
as ReaperA waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the...
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The Champ
as SpongeA broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
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Ziegfeld Girl
as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three...
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Woman in the Dark
as Tommy LoganA recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back...
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Alice in Wonderland
as FishIn Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called...
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The Big House
as PutnamConvicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where...
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A Free Soul
as Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects...
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Thunder in the Pines
as Wheezer, Boomer's head loggerLoggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a...
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The Great Moment
as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have...
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The Hawk of Powder River
as Soapy JonesB-western starring Eddie Dean as a singing lawman who comes to the aid of a pretty rancher (June...
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Reg'lar Fellers
as Emory McQuadeBased on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the "Reg'lar Fellers", and one girl-feller, tinker with...
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Bad Men of Missouri
as LafeThe Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds...
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Inner Sanctum
as WillieA killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.
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Those Redheads from Seattle
as Dan TaylorA woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.
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Chad Hanna
as Ike WayfishCountry boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he...
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God's Country and the Woman
as Gander HopkinsHard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son....
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Check and Double Check
as Brother ArthurAmos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in...
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Three Texas Steers
as Sheriff BrownNancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental...
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Billy the Kid
as Old StuffBilly, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is...
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What! No Beer?
as SchultzWhen Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against...
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Soup to Nuts
as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style...
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Lucy Gallant
as Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas...
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Scarlet River
as UlyssesUnable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy...
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Come Next Spring
as Shorty WilkinsMatt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has...
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Black Hills
as Soapy JonesWhen Hadley finds gold on his land, Kirby kills him and then goes after Hadley's ranch. After...
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Stars Over Texas
as Soapy JonesEddie Dean is a Cattlemen's Association agent investigating a serious rash of rustlings along...
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
as Wagon DriverHarry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman....
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Birth of the Blues
as Cab Driver (uncredited)Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He...
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The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
as Police Chief Dan CadyA New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to...
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She Knew All the Answers
as Gas Station AttendantChorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee...
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Captain Caution
as ChipsWhen her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the...
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The People's Enemy
as Slip LaflinMoney was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars...
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I'll Sell My Life
as Happy HoganA woman hoping to raise cash to pay for an operation to restore her blind brother's eyesight...
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One Foot in Heaven
as George Reynolds (uncredited)Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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The Big Caper
as FalkenburgA con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.
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She Made Her Bed
as Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates)"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally...
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Rancho Grande
as Ranch HandA ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure.
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Untamed
as Bert DillonA courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote...
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Golden Harvest
as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey LouA play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest....
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Can't Help Singing
as Lemuel (uncredited)With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young...
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On the Wagon
as ElmerHenry and Elmer stay out all night, then fear returning home because of their formidable...
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Shadow Valley
as Soapy JonesAt least 10 percent of the 58-minute Eddie Dean western Shadow Valley is comprised of stock...
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Reducing
as Ticket AgentCulture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister...
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Hold 'Em Jail
as Slippery Sam BrownTwo yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's...
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The Tioga Kid
as SoapyRanger Eddie Dean is looking for the outlaw the Tioga Kid, a man he closely resembles. He runs...
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The Big Shot
as RustyA young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next...
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Riders of the Black Hills
as Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates)Riders of the Black Hills is a 1938 American Western directed by George Sherman. The intrepid...
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Driftin' River
as SoapyEddie Dean (Eddie Dean) and his partner Soapy Jones (Roscoe Ates), under government orders,...
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Colorado Serenade
as SoapyDuke Dillon has his gang robbing stagecoaches carrying gold which is then melted down by his...
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Tornado Range
as Soapy JonesTornado Range is one of five Eddie Dean westerns originally produced by PRC in 1947 but released...
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Robin Hood of the Pecos
as Jailer GuffyRobin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane....
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Check Your Guns
as Soapy JonesSinging sheriff enacts old west gun control to thwart outlaws and crooked judge.
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Renegades of the West
as Dr. Henry FawcettA cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.
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Tumbleweed Trail
as Soapy JonesEddie Dean's assignment is to thwart the efforts of a crooked gambler, Brad Barton, to take over...
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Ladies of the Jury
as Andrew MacKaigSociety matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former...
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You're Next!
as Mr. TillsonTwo goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad...
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Hills of Oklahoma
as Dismal - the CookIn this remake of Gene Autry's 1942 "Call of the Canyon", Rex Allen, the newly-elected head of...
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Wild Country
as Soapy JonesCaxton has broken out of prison and Eddie has been sent to bring him in. Caxton is known by the...
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The Great Lover
as RoscoAn aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
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Down Missouri Way
as PappyWhen an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for...
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The Past of Mary Holmes
as Bill-poster KlondikeMary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a...
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Why Pay Rent?
as Elmer WhippleElmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the...
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The Cheyenne Kid
as Bush (as Rosco Ates)Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting...
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The Silent Call
as SidYoung Guy Brancato and parents have to move from Elko, Nevada to Los Angeles, California, they...
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The Cowboy from Sundown
as Deputy Gloomy DayThe drought-plagued ranchers of Sundown have to market their cattle at a loss in order to meet...
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Range Beyond the Blue
as Soapy JonesSinging cowboy Eddie Dean and his sidekick Soapy (Roscoe Ates) enter into the thick of things...
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The Roadhouse Murder
as Edmund JoyceAfter he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his...
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The Rainbow Trail
as Ike WilkinsThe wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between...
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Lucky Devils
as GabbyTwo Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
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Too Many Cooks
as Mr. WilsonA young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives...
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The Blazing Forest
as BeansEstranged brothers (John Payne, Richard Arlen) find themselves on the same lumberjack crew hired...
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The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Oscar Snake-Eyes SmithA group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately,...
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The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
as Jim BlakelyA group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately,...
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as Process ServerComedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
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Love in the Rough
as ProprietorWhen a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he...
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Wild West
as Soapy JonesEddie and his sidekicks have been called in to help get a new telegraph line through. Dawson and...
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Young Bride
as Pool Room Bartender MikeA newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
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Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
as SelfEddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.
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The Westward Trail
as Soapy JonesAnn and Tom Howard arrive from the east to take up ranching. But Tom wants to return and forges...
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Father's Wild Game
as RancherThe fourth entry in Monogram's "Father" series. Henry Latham decides he'll save money by hunting...
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Politics
as Peter HigginsA widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
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Merry Wives of Reno
as The TrapperThree couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
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Come on Danger!
as Rusty (as Rosco Ates)Sam Dunning, one of the wealthiest ranchers in the Pecos Valley is found dead with a bullet in...
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Dizzy & Daffy
as 'Call-'Em-Wrong' Jones, the UmpireA half-blind minor league pitcher meets, and nicknames, Dizzy and Daffy Dean, who go on to play...
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So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
as Elmer WhippleA hen-pecked husband takes his shrewish wife, and her obnoxious little brother, on a weekend...
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West to Glory
as Soapy JonesTwo con-men from the East come out West to join up with Avery. They plan to steal the Lopez...
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Those Three French Girls
as Elmer (uncredited)An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and...
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Sham Poo, the Magician
as TouristHugh Herbert and Roscoe Ates are in a bar where all the men wear fezzes. They are trying to make...
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Maverick
as uncreditedThe Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers...
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Lawman
as uncreditedLawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962...
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Sugarfoot
as BarberSugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The...
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M Squad
as Edwin WinklerLt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The...
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Pop HendersonA television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Zack MartinA television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Ben WhiteA television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Tavern CustomerA television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Piano PlayerA television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
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State Trooper
as uncreditedState Trooper is an American crime drama set in the 1950s American West, starring Rod Cameron as...
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The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
as uncreditedThe Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October...
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Man with a Camera
as uncreditedMan with a Camera is an American 1950s television crime drama starring Charles Bronson. Former...
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