Roscoe Ates
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1895-01-19
Locus Natus: Grange, Mississippi, USA
Et ut: Roscoe Blevel Ates, Rosco Ates
The Palm Beach Story
A New York inventor, Tom Jeffers, needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife, Gerry (Geraldine), decides to raise it by divorcing him...
release : 1942.08.28popularis : 8.658
Alice in Wonderland
In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.
release : 1933.12.18popularis : 7.1
City Girl
A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm...
release : 1930.01.12popularis : 5.499
The Champ
A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.
release : 1931.11.21popularis : 5.824
Inner Sanctum
A killer hides out in a small-town boarding house.
release : 1948.10.15popularis : 3.527
Can't Help Singing
With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has...
release : 1944.12.25popularis : 10.644
The Big Caper
A con artist moves into a small town to spearhead a payroll robbery.
release : 1957.03.28popularis : 2.617
What! No Beer?
When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.
release : 1933.02.10popularis : 2.434
Sham Poo, the Magician
Hugh Herbert and Roscoe Ates are in a bar where all the men wear fezzes. They are trying to make time with cigarette girl Dorothy Granger. Their loud...
release : 1932.11.25popularis : 2.01
The People's Enemy
Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became...
release : 1935.04.29popularis : 2.479
Birth of the Blues
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots,...
release : 1941.11.07popularis : 4.19
Merry Wives of Reno
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
release : 1934.04.18popularis : 3.052
Three Texas Steers
Nancy Evans, lovely circus owner, has a ranch that she's never visited, but for sentimental reasons won't sell to Mike Abbott. Her partners, secretly...
release : 1939.05.12popularis : 3.653
God's Country and the Woman
Hard-nosed Jefferson Russett runs a logging company; his brother, Steve, is the prodigal son. Steve becomes stranded on the competition's property...
release : 1937.01.16popularis : 5.112
Chad Hanna
Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.
release : 1940.12.25popularis : 5.694
Black Hills
When Hadley finds gold on his land, Kirby kills him and then goes after Hadley's ranch. After Eddie Dean foils Kirby's robbery attempt, Kirby forces...
release : 1947.10.26popularis : 3.647
The Roadhouse Murder
After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news. Eric...
release : 1932.04.28popularis : 1.607
The Great Lover
An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.
release : 1931.07.18popularis : 5.532
Billy the Kid
Billy, after shooting down land baron William Donovan's henchmen for killing Billy's boss, is hunted down and captured by his friend, Sheriff Pat...
release : 1930.10.16popularis : 6.757
Dizzy & Daffy
A half-blind minor league pitcher meets, and nicknames, Dizzy and Daffy Dean, who go on to play for the St. Louis Cardinals.
release : 1934.12.14popularis : 1.146
Politics
A widow's decision to run for mayor kicks off a battle of the sexes in a small town.
release : 1931.02.26popularis : 1.972
The Big Shot
A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.
release : 1931.12.31popularis : 2.164
Woman in the Dark
A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is...
release : 1934.11.08popularis : 7.289
Hollywood on Parade No. A-3
Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.
release : 1932.10.20popularis : 1.689
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok is appointed to ensure...
release : 1938.06.30popularis : 2.253
The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok is appointed to ensure...
release : 1938.06.30popularis : 2.253
The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to...
release : 1942.03.27popularis : 4.158
Wild Country
Caxton has broken out of prison and Eddie has been sent to bring him in. Caxton is known by the polka dot band on his hat and Eddie has Soapy wear...
release : 1947.01.17popularis : 5.986
The Stranger Wore a Gun
Having been a spy for Quantrill's raiders during the Civil War, Jeff Travis thinking himself a wanted man, flees to Prescott Arizona where he runs...
release : 1953.07.30popularis : 6.738
I Want a Divorce
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
release : 1940.09.20popularis : 3.258
Too Many Cooks
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
release : 1931.07.18popularis : 5.027
Tumbleweed Trail
Eddie Dean's assignment is to thwart the efforts of a crooked gambler, Brad Barton, to take over the property of his half-brother Bill Ryan. In order...
release : 1946.07.19popularis : 6.055
The Tioga Kid
Ranger Eddie Dean is looking for the outlaw the Tioga Kid, a man he closely resembles. He runs into Joe Morino and his gang of rustlers at the same...
release : 1948.06.17popularis : 3.679
Colorado Serenade
Duke Dillon has his gang robbing stagecoaches carrying gold which is then melted down by his father. But Eddie and his sidekick Soapy are on the job...
release : 1946.06.30popularis : 1.219
Driftin' River
Eddie Dean (Eddie Dean) and his partner Soapy Jones (Roscoe Ates), under government orders, proceed to the ranch of J.C. Morgan (Shirley Patterson to...
release : 1946.10.01popularis : 3.471
Young Bride
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
release : 1932.04.08popularis : 3.315
Come Next Spring
Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and...
release : 1956.03.09popularis : 7.642
Reducing
Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.
release : 1931.01.03popularis : 2.65
Ladies of the Jury
Society matron Mrs. Livingston Baldwin Crane is selected as a juror in the trial of former chorus girl Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her...
release : 1932.02.02popularis : 1.807
The Blazing Forest
Estranged brothers (John Payne, Richard Arlen) find themselves on the same lumberjack crew hired by a feisty widow to clear the timber from her...
release : 1952.12.01popularis : 2.595
Lucky Devils
Two Hollywood stuntmen compete for the same pretty extra.
release : 1933.02.03popularis : 1.531
Scarlet River
Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.
release : 1933.03.10popularis : 2.194
On the Wagon
Henry and Elmer stay out all night, then fear returning home because of their formidable mother-in-law.
release : 1935.08.24popularis : 1.965
I'll Sell My Life
A woman hoping to raise cash to pay for an operation to restore her blind brother's eyesight finds herself implicated in a nightclub murder.
release : 1941.09.12popularis : 1.465
The Hawk of Powder River
B-western starring Eddie Dean as a singing lawman who comes to the aid of a pretty rancher (June Carlson) who's been targeted for murder by a...
release : 1948.04.09popularis : 1.033
Ziegfeld Girl
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on...
release : 1941.04.25popularis : 5.271
The Sheepman
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears...
release : 1958.05.01popularis : 7.099
Cimarron
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his...
release : 1931.01.26popularis : 8.062
Gone with the Wind
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and...
release : 1939.03.12popularis : 36.932
You're Next!
Two goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad scientist.
release : 1940.05.03popularis : 1.226
Tornado Range
Tornado Range is one of five Eddie Dean westerns originally produced by PRC in 1947 but released the following year by Eagle-Lion. Cast as a...
release : 1948.02.21popularis : 1.994
Untamed
A courageous doctor braves a fierce blizzard in the Canadian wilderness to save a remote community from a deadly epidemic. He has come North to visit...
release : 1940.07.24popularis : 1.896
Shadow Valley
At least 10 percent of the 58-minute Eddie Dean western Shadow Valley is comprised of stock shots from earlier Dean oaters. This time, the star plays...
release : 1947.11.29popularis : 2.051
Reg'lar Fellers
Based on the comic strip by Gene Byrnes, the "Reg'lar Fellers", and one girl-feller, tinker with building a land/water machine, form a kid-band and...
release : 1941.09.05popularis : 4.487
The Great Moment
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public...
release : 1944.07.18popularis : 2.901
Hold 'Em Jail
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
release : 1932.08.19popularis : 1.287
Check and Double Check
Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a...
release : 1930.10.02popularis : 8.635
Captain Caution
When her father dies, a young girl helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.
release : 1940.08.09popularis : 5.921
The Cheyenne Kid
Chasing a gambler that stole money, Tom Larkin gets his horse shot out from under him. Meeting an outlaw with a horse, after a fight Tom rides away...
release : 1933.01.20popularis : 6.119
Down Missouri Way
When an agricultural professor returns home to the farm with her scientifically-raised mule for a needed rest, they find themselves caught up in a...
release : 1946.08.15popularis : 1.305
Riders of the Black Hills
Riders of the Black Hills is a 1938 American Western directed by George Sherman. The intrepid cowboys known as the Three Mesquiteers; Stony (Robert...
release : 1938.06.15popularis : 0.88
She Made Her Bed
"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers), just as he does his lions. But she is a one-man...
release : 1934.04.26popularis : 1.442
The Ladies Man
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which...
release : 1961.06.21popularis : 6.961
Renegades of the West
A cowboy goes undercover to catch the cattle thieves who killed his father.
release : 1932.11.25popularis : 2.315
The Cowboy from Sundown
The drought-plagued ranchers of Sundown have to market their cattle at a loss in order to meet mortgage payments held by banker Cylus Cuttler. Then,...
release : 1940.09.05popularis : 2.224
The Silent Call
Young Guy Brancato and parents have to move from Elko, Nevada to Los Angeles, California, they are unable to take Guy's dog Pete. Guy is angry at...
release : 1961.05.10popularis : 3.576
King Kong
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann...
release : 1933.03.15popularis : 23.624
Love in the Rough
When a shipping clerk is recruited by his employer to help his golf game, his boss insists he conceal his humble identity at the country club.
release : 1930.09.05popularis : 3.097
Those Three French Girls
An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.
release : 1930.10.10popularis : 3.741
Fair Exchange
“Criminologist stages the theft of a picture to thwart his son's ambitions to be a detective.” - BFI.
release : 1936.09.14popularis : 3.049
Thunder in the Pines
Loggers Jeff Collins and Boomer Benson compete for a mail-order bride by means of a timber-cutting contest.
release : 1948.11.11popularis : 3.43
Stars Over Texas
Eddie Dean is a Cattlemen's Association agent investigating a serious rash of rustlings along with sidekicks Soapy (Roscoe Ates) and Waco (Lee...
release : 1946.11.18popularis : 1.01
Hills of Oklahoma
In this remake of Gene Autry's 1942 "Call of the Canyon", Rex Allen, the newly-elected head of the cattleman's association, is driving the combined...
release : 1950.06.01popularis : 4.567
Rancho Grande
A ranch foreman (Gene Autry) helps three youngsters protect their inheritance from foreclosure.
release : 1940.03.22popularis : 2.089
Robin Hood of the Pecos
Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Following the Civil War, the South still faced many...
release : 1941.01.14popularis : 4.817
Wild West
Eddie and his sidekicks have been called in to help get a new telegraph line through. Dawson and his men along with his stooge Judge are out to stop...
release : 1946.12.01popularis : 1.601
Range Beyond the Blue
Singing cowboy Eddie Dean and his sidekick Soapy (Roscoe Ates) enter into the thick of things when they thwart a stagecoach holdup. Our heroes take...
release : 1947.03.16popularis : 0.893
The Westward Trail
Ann and Tom Howard arrive from the east to take up ranching. But Tom wants to return and forges his sister's name to the deed and sells it to Larson....
release : 1948.03.13popularis : 1.366
West to Glory
Two con-men from the East come out West to join up with Avery. They plan to steal the Lopez diamond from Don Lopez. With the drought, Lopez has sold...
release : 1947.04.11popularis : 1.227
Golden Harvest
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat...
release : 1933.09.21popularis : 1.298
Check Your Guns
Singing sheriff enacts old west gun control to thwart outlaws and crooked judge.
release : 1948.01.24popularis : 2.299
Bad Men of Missouri
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been...
release : 1941.07.26popularis : 5.905
Those Redheads from Seattle
A woman takes her four beautiful daughters to Alaska during the Gold Rush to find their fortune.
release : 1953.10.16popularis : 5.034
Soup to Nuts
Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls...
release : 1930.09.28popularis : 3.563
So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
A hen-pecked husband takes his shrewish wife, and her obnoxious little brother, on a weekend camping trip. Along for the ride are the boorish...
release : 1934.11.01popularis : 1.262
Why Pay Rent?
Elmer fixes up a room for his just-married, freeloading brother-in-law and wife. When the newlyweds show up, Henry brings a surprise in the form of...
release : 1935.05.04popularis : 2.13
Lucy Gallant
A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.
release : 1955.10.20popularis : 6.375
The Big House
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are...
release : 1930.06.14popularis : 5.581
The Past of Mary Holmes
Mary Holmes (MacKellar), once a famous opera star known as Maria di Nardi, now lives in a run-down shanty and suffers from alcoholism. Known for her...
release : 1933.01.20popularis : 2.383
Come on Danger!
Sam Dunning, one of the wealthiest ranchers in the Pecos Valley is found dead with a bullet in his back. Pinned to his body is a note which reads "An...
release : 1932.09.23popularis : 1.194
She Knew All the Answers
Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's...
release : 1941.05.13popularis : 3.283
A Free Soul
An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically...
release : 1931.06.02popularis : 3.903
Father's Wild Game
The fourth entry in Monogram's "Father" series. Henry Latham decides he'll save money by hunting for his meat rather than buying it from the store.
release : 1950.12.03popularis : 3.309
Signing 'em Up
An all-star short designed to promote the National Recovery Act.
release : 1933.12.01popularis : 0.913
The Rainbow Trail
The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.
release : 1932.01.03popularis : 2.015
Freaks
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for...
release : 1932.01.01popularis : 17.229
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where,...
release : 1955.02.02popularis : 5.542
One Foot in Heaven
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
release : 1941.11.01popularis : 6.208