Roscoe Ates

Career timeline

1. 1895 · Born

   Born in Grange, Mississippi, USA

2. 1930 · Screen debut

   City Girl (Movie)

3. 1939 · Breakthrough

   Gone with the Wind (Movie)

4. 1961 · Latest release

   The Ladies Man (Movie)

5. 1962 · Died

   March 1, 1962

Career in numbers

34 1930s

18 1940s

19 1950s

2 1960s

• Drama30
• Comedy25
• Western22
• Romance14
• Crime10
• Adventure6

Highest-rated title Gone with the Wind 1939 7.9 Most popular title Gone with the Wind 1939 7.9

Frequent collaborators

People who appear most often alongside Roscoe Ates in our catalogue.

Edward Brophy

4 titles together

Max Steiner

3 titles together

Cliff Edwards

3 titles together

Robert Altman

3 titles together

Eric Linden

3 titles together

Grady Sutton

2 titles together

Robert Armstrong

2 titles together

Edward Everett Horton

2 titles together

Ray Taylor

2 titles together

Max Terhune

2 titles together

1. 1961 The Ladies Man as Pet Shop Owner 6.3 Movie
2. 1961 The Silent Call as Sid Movie
3. 1958 Man with a Camera TV
4. 1958 The Sheepman as Town Loafer (uncredited) 6.9 Movie
5. 1957 Maverick 7.1 TV
6. 1957 M Squad as Edwin Winkler TV
7. 1957 Wagon Train as Old Timer 6.6 TV
8. 1957 Sugarfoot as Barber TV
9. 1957 The Big Caper as Falkenburg 6.3 Movie
10. 1956 State Trooper TV
11. 1956 Come Next Spring as Shorty Wilkins Movie
12. 1955 Lucy Gallant as Clem Anderson - Hotel Clerk (uncredited) Movie
13. 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Pop Henderson 7.8 TV
14. 1955 Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops as Wagon Driver 6.2 Movie
15. 1954 The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin 7.0 TV
16. 1953 Those Redheads from Seattle as Dan Taylor Movie
17. 1953 The Stranger Wore a Gun as Jake Hooper 5.5 Movie
18. 1951 Boston Blackie TV
19. 1950 Father's Wild Game as Rancher Movie
20. 1950 The Cisco Kid as Henry Wilson TV
21. 1950 The Marshal of Gunsight Pass TV
22. 1948 Thunder in the Pines as Wheezer, Boomer's head logger Movie
23. 1948 Inner Sanctum as Willie 5.1 Movie
24. 1948 The Hawk of Powder River as Soapy Jones Movie
25. 1947 Shadow Valley as Soapy Jones Movie
26. 1946 Down Missouri Way as Pappy Movie
27. 1944 Can't Help Singing as Lemuel (uncredited) Movie
28. 1944 The Great Moment as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited) 5.9 Movie
29. 1942 The Palm Beach Story as Fourth Member Ale and Quail Club 7.0 Movie
30. 1942 The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine as Police Chief Dan Cady Movie
31. 1941 Birth of the Blues as Cab Driver (uncredited) Movie
32. 1941 One Foot in Heaven as George Reynolds (uncredited) 6.9 Movie
33. 1941 Bad Men of Missouri as Lafe Movie
34. 1941 She Knew All the Answers as Gas Station Attendant Movie
35. 1941 Ziegfeld Girl as Janitor Changing Pictures (uncredited) 6.6 Movie
36. 1941 Robin Hood of the Pecos as Jailer Guffy Movie
37. 1940 I Want a Divorce as Process Server Movie
38. 1940 Captain Caution as Chips Movie
39. 1940 Untamed as Bert Dillon Movie
40. 1939 Gone with the Wind as Convalescent Soldier (uncredited) 7.9 Movie
41. 1939 Three Texas Steers as Sheriff Brown Movie
42. 1938 The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok as Oscar Snake-Eyes Smith Movie
43. 1938 Riders of the Black Hills as Sheriff Brown (as Rosco Ates) Movie
44. 1937 God's Country and the Woman as Gander Hopkins Movie
45. 1934 Woman in the Dark as Tommy Logan 6.1 Movie
46. 1934 So You Won't T-T-T-Talk as Elmer Whipple Movie
47. 1934 She Made Her Bed as Santa Fe (as Rosco Ates) Movie
48. 1934 Merry Wives of Reno as The Trapper Movie
49. 1933 Alice in Wonderland as Fish 6.1 Movie
50. 1933 Golden Harvest as Louis Jenkins aka Loopey Lou Movie
51. 1933 King Kong as Press Photographer (uncredited) 7.6 Movie
52. 1933 What! No Beer? as Schultz Movie
53. 1933 The Past of Mary Holmes as Bill-poster Klondike Movie
54. 1932 Sham Poo, the Magician as Tourist Movie
55. 1932 Renegades of the West as Dr. Henry Fawcett Movie
56. 1932 Hold 'Em Jail as Slippery Sam Brown Movie
57. 1932 The Roadhouse Murder as Edmund Joyce Movie
58. 1932 Young Bride as Pool Room Bartender Mike Movie
59. 1932 Never the Twins Shall Meet as Alfred Guppy / Albert Guppy Movie
60. 1932 Ladies of the Jury as Andrew MacKaig Movie
61. 1932 Freaks as Roscoe 7.8 Movie
62. 1931 The Champ as Sponge 7.1 Movie
63. 1931 The Great Lover as Rosco Movie
64. 1931 A Free Soul as Man Shot at in Men's Room (uncredited) 6.2 Movie
65. 1931 Cimarron as Jesse Rickey (as Rosco Ates) 5.5 Movie
66. 1931 Reducing as Ticket Agent Movie
67. 1930 Billy the Kid as Old Stuff Movie
68. 1930 Those Three French Girls as Elmer (uncredited) Movie
69. 1930 Check and Double Check as Brother Arthur Movie
70. 1930 Soup to Nuts as Pants Presser at Al's Tailor Shop (uncredited) Movie
71. 1930 Love in the Rough as Proprietor Movie
72. 1930 The Big House as Putnam 6.5 Movie
73. 1930 City Girl as Reaper 7.5 Movie

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