Roper — High Lonesome Character Profile

About Roper

Smiling Man's accomplice who provided Cooncat with the gun used in the Shell murder. He ambushes the ranch with Smiling Man and is killed by Horse during the trading post confrontation.

Character Facts

Played by

Dave Kashner

Appears in

High Lonesome (1950)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (2)

• Roper — Conflict Framer — Cooncat (John Drew Barrymore)

  Roper is the accomplice who provides the murder weapon and participates in the frame-up.

• Roper — Alliance Partners In Crime — Smiling Man (Jack Elam)

  Smiling Man and Roper operate as a coordinated criminal duo.

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More characters from High Lonesome

• Cooncat (John Drew Barrymore)
• Boatwhistle (Chill Wills)
• Pat Farrell (John Archer)
• Meagan Davis (Lois Butler)
• Art Simms (Hugh Aiken)
• Abby Davis (Kristine Miller)
• Jim Shell (Howard Joslin)
• 'Horse' Davis (Basil Ruysdael)
• Smiling Man (Jack Elam)
• Frank (Frank Cordell)
• Dixie (Clem Fuller)