- Comedy actor, on stage from 1915, best known for his lugubrious face and nervous stutter (although he appeared in eight episodes of the western series Lawman (1958) and never stuttered once.).
- Barbara Ray divorced Roscoe Ates in 1944 and remarried him in 1949.
- Was in two Oscar Best Picture winners: Cimarron (1931) and Autant en emporte le vent (1939), and three other nominees: Big House (1930), Le champion (1931) and Au seuil du paradis (1941).
- He served in the US military in World War I and in the US Army Air Force in World War II.
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