Roscoe Ates
- Birthday
- Jan 20, 1895
Bio: Mississippi-born Roscoe Ates spent a good portion of his childhood overcoming a severe stammer. Entering show business as a concert violinist, the shriveled, pop-eyed Ates found the money was better as a vaudeville comedian, reviving his long-gone stutter for humorous effect. In films from 1929, Ates appeared in sizeable roles in such films as The Champ (1931),… More Bio: Mississippi-born Roscoe Ates spent a good portion of his childhood overcoming a severe stammer. Entering show business as a concert violinist, the shriveled, pop-eyed Ates found the money was better as a vaudeville comedian, reviving his long-gone stutter for humorous effect. In films from 1929, Ates appeared in sizeable roles in such films as The Champ (1931), Freaks (1932) and Alice in Wonderland (1933), and also starred in his own short subject series with RKO and Vitaphone. Though his trademarked stammer is something of an endurance test when seen today, it paid off in big laughs in the 1930s, when speech impediments were considered the ne plus ultra of hilarity. By the late 1930s Ates's popularity waned, and he was reduced to unbilled bits in such films as Gone with the Wind (1939) and Dixie (1942). His best showing during the 1940s was as comic sidekick to singing cowboy Eddie Dean in a series of 15 low-budget westerns. Remaining busy in films and on TV into the 1960s, Roscoe Ates made his last appearance in the 1961 Jerry Lewis comedy The Errand Boy. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Filmography
-
The Ladies Man (1961)
- Actor
- 90%
-
The Errand Boy (1961)
- Actor
- 50%
-
The Sheepman (Stranger with a Gun) (1958)
- Person
-
Short Cut to Hell (1957)
- Ext. Road Driver
-
The Big Caper (1957)
- Keeler
- See all 55 films
Roscoe Ates Videos
Gone With The Wind
2 minutes 18 seconds
Freaks
1 minutes 19 seconds
King Kong
2 minutes 57 seconds
Sullivan's Travels
2 minutes 48 seconds
The Palm Beach Story
2 minutes 42 seconds
Born Today
- Drew Carey (55 years old)
- Herbert Marshall (123 years old)
- Adam Wylie (29 years old)
- John Ortiz (45 years old)
- Alexander De Jordy (20 years old)
- Heather Wahlquist (36 years old)
- Jewel (39 years old)
- Kappei Yamaguchi (48 years old)
- Tom Tykwer (48 years old)
- Kelly Monaco (37 years old)
- Zalman King (71 years old)
- Frank McHugh (115 years old)
- Laurel Holloman (42 years old)
- Guinevere Turner (45 years old)
- Joan Collins (80 years old)
- Charlie Yeung (39 years old)
- H. Jon Benjamin (47 years old)
- Mark Arnold (56 years old)
- Nigel Davenport (85 years old)
- Karen Duffy (52 years old)
- Sam Milby (31 years old)
- Linden Ashby (53 years old)
- Lane Garrison (33 years old)
- Felissa Rose (44 years old)
- See more (24)
