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Roscoe Blevel Ates (January 20, 1895 – March 1, 1962) was an American vaudeville performer, actor of stage and screen, comedian and musician who primarily featured in western films and television. He was best known as western character Soapy Jones.[2] He was also billed as Rosco Ates.

Roscoe Ates
Ates in Chad Hanna (1940)
Born

Roscoe Blevel Ates[1]


(1895-01-20)January 20, 1895
Grange, Mississippi, U.S.
DiedMarch 1, 1962(1962-03-01) (aged 67)
Encino, California, U.S.
Resting placeForest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California
NationalityAmerican
Occupations
  • Actor
  • stage performer
  • comedian
  • vaudevillian
  • musician
    • Years active1929–1961
    Spouses

    Clara Callahan

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    (m. 1923; div. 1945)​

    Leonore Belle Jumps

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    (m. 1949; died 1955)​

    Beatrice Angelina Naranjo

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    (m. 1960)​

    Early years

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    Ates was born on January 20, 1895, in the northwest of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in the rural hamlet of Grange[2] (Grange is no longer included on road maps). Ates spent much of his childhood learning how to manage a speech impediment,[3] succeeding when he was 18.[4]

    Early career

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    Ates played violin to accompany silent films at a theater in Chickasha, Oklahoma.[4] Following that experience, he became an entertainer as a concert violinist but found economic opportunities greater as a vaudeville comedian, appearing as half of the team of Ates and Darling.[5] For 15 years, he was a headliner on the Orpheum Circuit,[6] and he revived his long-gone stutter for humorous effect

    Military service

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    Ates served in World War II, training of[clarification needed] the Air Force fighter squad program in Houston, TexasatEllington Field Texas.

    Theater and personal appearances

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    On Broadway, Ates appeared as James McCracken in the musical comedy Sea Legs (1937).[7]

    In the late 1930s, Ates made a personal appearance tour in Scotland and England. He also toured selected American cities with Hollywood Scandals, a stage revue with 35 people.[8]

    Film career

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    His first film role was a ship's cook in South Sea Rose. The next year he was cast as "Old Stuff" in the widescreen film Billy the Kid starring Wallace Beery. Here is a listing of his films:

  • Marianne (1929) as Orderly (uncredited)
  • City Girl (1930) as Reaper
  • Double Cross Roads (1930) as Ticket Agent (uncredited)
  • Caught Short (1930) as Bit Part (uncredited)
  • The Big House (1930) as Putnam
  • Check and Double Check (1930) as Brother Arthur
  • Love in the Rough (1930) as Proprietor
  • Soup to Nuts (1930) as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited)
  • Those Three French Girls (1930) as Elmer (uncredited)
  • Billy the Kid (1930) as Old Stuff
  • Remote Control (1930) as Stuttering Piccolo Player (uncredited)
  • Cimarron (1931) as Jesse Rickey
  • The Champ (1931) as Sponge
  • Politics (1931) as Peter Higgins, the town barber
  • Reducing (1931) as Stuttering Ticket Agent (uncredited)
  • A Free Soul (1931) as Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited)
  • The Great Lover (1931) as Roscoe
  • Too Many Cooks (1931) as Mr. Wilson
  • She Went for a Tramp (Short) (1931)
  • The Voice of Hollywood Number 7 (Second Series) (Short) (1931)
  • Cut It Out, Doctor (Short) (1931)
  • Use Your Noodle (Short) (1931)
  • A Clean-Up on the Burb (Short) (1931)
  • The Lone Starved Ranger (Short) (1931) as Roscoe, the Stuttering Man
  • The Big Shot (1931) as Rusty, the Barber
  • The Rainbow Trail (1932) as Ike Wilkins
  • Come on Danger! (1932) as Rusty
  • Renegades of the West (1932) as Dr. Henry Fawcett
  • Freaks (1932) as Roscoe
  • The Roadhouse Murder (1932) as Edmund Joyce
  • Ladies of the Jury (1932) as Andrew MacKaig
  • Never the Twins Shall Meet (1932) as Alfred Guppy / Albert Guppy
  • Young Bride (1932) as Mike, the Pool Hall Bartender
  • Hold 'Em Jail (1932) as Slippery Sam Brown
  • Sham Poo, the Magician (1932) as Roscoe / Tourist
  • Deported (1932)
  • Lucky Devils (1933) as Gabby
  • What! No Beer? (1933) as Schultz the Brewmaster
  • Alice in Wonderland (1933) as Fish
  • The Cheyenne Kid (1933) as Bush
  • The Past of Mary Holmes (1933) as Bill-Poster Klondike
  • King Kong (1933) as Press Photographer (uncredited)
  • Scarlet River (1933) as Ulysses Mope
  • Golden Harvest (1933) as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou
  • She Made Her Bed (1934) as Santa Fe
  • Merry Wives of Reno (1934) as The Trapper
  • Woman in the Dark (1934) as Tommy Logan
  • Dizzy and Daffy (1934) as 'Call-'Em-Wrong Jones', the Umpire
  • So You Won't T-T-T-Talk (1934) as Elmer Whipple
  • The People's Enemy (1935) as Slip Laflin
  • Why Pay Rent? (Short) (1935) as Elmer Whipple
  • Once Over Lightly (Short) (1935)
  • On the Wagon (1935) as Elmer
  • Fair Exchange (1936) as Elmer Goodge
  • God's Country and the Woman (1937) as Gander Hopkins
  • Drug Store Follies (Short) (1937) as The Stuttering Comic
  • Alpine Cabaret (Short) (1937) as Elmer
  • The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938) as Oscar "Snake-Eyes" Smith
  • Riders of the Black Hills (1938) as Sheriff Brown
  • Gone with the Wind (1939) as a convalescing Confederate soldier. While scratching his back on a tent pole, he utters the line "These animules is driving me crazy!"
  • Three Texas Steers (1939) as Sheriff Brown
  • Rancho Grande (1940) as Tex
  • You're Next! (1940) as Mr. Tillson (uncredited)
  • The Cowboy from Sundown (1940) as Deputy Gloomy Day
  • Captain Caution (1940) as Chips
  • Chad Hanna (1940) as Ike Wayfish
  • Untamed (1940) as Bert Dillon
  • I Want a Divorce (1940) as Process Server (uncredited)
  • Fireman, Save My Choo Choo (Short) (1940) as Fireman
  • Bad Men of Missouri (1941) as Lafe
  • Sullivan's Travels (1941) as Hollywood Diner Counterman (uncredited)
  • I'll Sell My Life (1941) as Happy Hogan
  • Robin Hood of the Pecos (1941) as Jailer Guffy
  • She Knew All the Answers (1941) as Gas Station Attendant
  • Glove Affair (Short) (1941) as Uncle Tom
  • Ziegfield Girl (1941) as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited)
  • Mountain Moonlight (1941) as Gardener
  • Reg'lar Fellers (1941) as Emory McQuade
  • Birth of the Blues (1941) as Cab Driver (uncredited)
  • One Foot in Heaven (1941) as George Reynolds (uncredited)
  • The Palm Beach Story (1942) as Fourth Member, Ale and Quail Club
  • The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942) as Dan Kady
  • Can't Help Singing (1944) as Lemuel (uncredited)
  • The Great Moment (1944) as Morton's Sign Painter (uncredited)
  • Wild West (1946) as Soapy Jones
  • Colorado Serenade (1946) as Soapy
  • Driftin' River (1946) as Soapy Jones
  • Stars Over Texas (1946) as Soapy Jones
  • Tumbleweed Trail (1946) as Soapy Jones
  • West to Glory (1947) as Soapy Jones
  • Shadow Valley (1947) as Soapy Jones
  • Wild Country (1947) as Soapy Jones
  • Range Beyond the Blue (1947) as Soapy Jones
  • Black Hills (1947) as Soapy Jones
  • Check Your Guns (1948) as Soapy Jones
  • The Hawk of Powder River (1948) as Soapy Jones
  • The Westward Trail (1948) as Soapy Jones
  • Tornado Range (1948) as Soapy Jones
  • The Tioga Kid (1948) as Soapy Jones
  • Thunder in the Pines (1948) as Wheezer, Boomer's Head Logger
  • Inner Sanctum (1948) as Willie
  • Father's Wild Game (1950) as Rancher
  • Hills of Oklahoma (1950) as Dismal, the Cook
  • Honeychile (1951) as Bob
  • The Blazing Forest (1952) as Beans
  • Trail Guide (1952) as Stammering Man (uncredited)
  • Those Redheads from Seattle (1953) as Dan Taylor
  • The Stranger Wore a Gun (1953) as Jake Hooper, the Stage Driver (uncredited)
  • Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955) as Wagon Driver
  • Lucy Gallant (1955) as Clem Anderson, the Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
  • Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956) as Scotty (uncredited)
  • Come Next Spring (1956) as Shorty Wilkins
  • The Birds and the Bees (1956) as Vendor (uncredited)
  • The Kettles in the Ozarks (1956) as Townsman (uncredited)
  • The Big Caper (1957) as Falkenburg (uncredited)
  • Short Cut to Hell (1957) as Road Driver (uncredited)
  • The Sheepman (1958) as Town Loafer (uncredited)
  • Cissie (TV Movie) (1959) as Papa
  • The Silent Call (1961) as Sid
  • The Ladies Man (1961) as Pet Shop Owner
  • The Errand Boy (1961) as Ralph the Prop Man (uncredited)

    • Musical performances

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    Ates performed these songs in his films:

    Television career

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    In 1950, Ates appeared in his first television role as Deputy Roscoe on ABC series The Marshal of Gunsight Pass.

    Ates appeared on television in multiple roles. He was cast as Henry Wilson in the episode "The Census Taker" of the syndicated western series The Cisco Kid, and he also appeared that same year in the Gale Storm sitcom, My Little Margie and Boston Blackie. He appeared on Gail Davis's Annie Oakley series as Curly Dawes, the telegraph operator.[9]

    In 1958, Ates was cast as "Old Timer" in the episode "The Sacramento Story" of NBC's Wagon Train. In 1959, Ates appeared in western series The Restless Gun, State Trooper, and Buckskin. He had a nameless role as a barfly in the 1958 episode of "Maverick" called "Gun-Shy", a spoof of the series Gunsmoke. In 1960, he was cast as Fenton in the episode "Hot Ice Cream" of Charles Bronson's ABC series Man with a Camera, as Lou Nugget in "The Fabulous Fiddle" of Scott Brady's syndicated Shotgun Slade, and as Deputy Boak in "The Missing Queen" of Andrew Duggan's ABC crime drama Bourbon Street Beat, set in New Orleans.

    Later roles

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    From 1958 to 1960, Ates appeared five times on CBS's Alfred Hitchcock Presents mystery series.[10]

    In 1960, Ates appeared as a guest in the presentation of the life story of honorary Hollywood mayor Johnny Grant on NBC's This Is Your Life biography series with host Ralph Edwards.

    Ates's last credited roles were in 1961 as a drunk in Robert Stack's ABC series The Untouchables and as sheriffs in The Red Skelton Show. His final screen appearance in Jerry Lewis's 1961 film The Errand Boy was uncredited.

    Family and death

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    Ates was married three times. After his divorce from the former Clara Callahan, he married Leonore Belle Jumps in 1949. She died in 1955.[11] In December 1960, Ates married model Beatrice Heisser.[12][13]

    Ates died of lung cancer at the age of 67 at the West Valley Community HospitalinEncino, California.[2]

    Television Appearances

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    References

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    1. ^ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZDV-BGV : 25 December 2021), Rosco Blevel Ates, 1917-1918.
  • ^ a b c "Roscoe Ates, 67, Comedian, Dies. Veteran Of Movies Played Stuttering Cowboy Roles". New York Times. March 2, 1962.
  • ^ "Roscoe Ates": Biography by Hal Erickson". allmovie.com. Retrieved March 1, 2009.
  • ^ a b Slide, Anthony (2012). The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 15. ISBN 9781617032509. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  • ^ "Exits and Entrances". Oakland Tribune. California, Oakland. September 25, 1929. p. 20. Retrieved February 27, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.  
  • ^ "(untitled brief)". The Times. Indiana, Munster. August 4, 1930. p. 8. Retrieved February 27, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.  
  • ^ "Rosco Ates". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on February 28, 2018. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  • ^ "Roscoe Ates and Big Stage Revue at The New Bradford Friday and Saturday". Bradford Evening Star and The Bradford Daily Record. Pennsylvania, Bradford. September 22, 1938. p. 12. Retrieved February 27, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.  
  • ^ "Annie Oakley". retroland.com. Archived from the original on December 10, 2009. Retrieved January 11, 2010.
  • ^ "Roscoe Ates Filmography". Fandango.com. Retrieved March 1, 2009.
  • ^ "Mrs. Roscoe Ates". New York Times. May 20, 1955.
  • ^ "Marriages". Variety. January 11, 1961. p. 62.
  • ^ Parish, James Robert (1978). Hollywood Character Actors. Westport, CN: Arlington House Publishers. p. 37. ISBN 0870003844.
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