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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1934-07-04 (90 years old)

Place of Birth

San Diego, California, USA

Trigger

Biography:

Trigger made an early appearance as the mount of Maid Marian, played by Olivia de Havilland in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). A short while later, when Roy Rogers was preparing to make his first movie in a starring role, he was offered a choice of five rented "movie" horses to ride and chose him. Rogers bought him eventually in 1943 for his quickness of both foot and mind. Trigger learned 150 trick cues and could walk 50 feet on his hind legs (according to sources close to Roy Rogers). They were said to have run out of places to cue Trigger. Trigger was ridden by Rogers in many of his motion pictures, becoming much loved by the youthful audience that saw him on film and in Rogers' 1950s television series with his wife Dale Evans, who rode her trusty buckskin Quarter Horse Buttermilk.

Known For

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The Roy Rogers Show

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

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Alias Jesse James

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Hollywood Canteen

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Under California Stars

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Bad Man of Deadwood

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It's Showtime

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Eyes of Texas

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Silver Spurs

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Melody Time

Acting

1976

It's Showtime as Trigger (archive footage)

1959

Alias Jesse James as Trigger (uncredited)

1952

Son of Paleface as Trigger

1951

South of Caliente as Trigger

Heart of the Rockies as Trigger

In Old Amarillo as Trigger - Roy's Horse

Pals of the Golden West as Trigger

Spoilers of the Plains as Trigger

The Roy Rogers Show as Trigger

1950

Trigger, Jr. as Trigger - The Smartest Horse in the Movies

Twilight in the Sierras as Trigger

North of the Great Divide as Trigger

Sunset in the West as Trigger - Roy's Horse

Trail of Robin Hood as Trigger The Smartest Horse in the West

1949

The Golden Stallion as Trigger - Roy's Horse

Down Dakota Way as Trigger

Susanna Pass as Trigger - Roy's Horse

1948

Melody Time as Trigger

Eyes of Texas as Trigger

The Far Frontier as Trigger - Roy's Horse

Under California Stars as Trigger

The Gay Ranchero as Trigger

Grand Canyon Trail as Trigger, Roy's Horse

Night Time in Nevada as Trigger - Roy's Horse

1947

Springtime in the Sierras as Trigger - Roy's Horse

Apache Rose as Trigger

Bells of San Angelo as Trigger

On the Old Spanish Trail as Trigger

1946

Home in Oklahoma as Trigger

My Pal Trigger as Trigger, Smartest Horse in the Movies

Roll on Texas Moon as The Smartest Horse in the Movies

Heldorado as Trigger - Roy's Horse

Out California Way as Trigger - Roy's Horse

Rainbow Over Texas as Trigger

Song of Arizona as Trigger

Under Nevada Skies as Roy's Horse

1945

Utah as Trigger

Man from Oklahoma as Trigger

Along the Navajo Trail as Trigger

Bells of Rosarita as Trigger

Sunset in El Dorado as Trigger

Don't Fence Me In as Trigger

1944

Hollywood Canteen as Self

The Yellow Rose of Texas as Roy's Horse

San Fernando Valley as Trigger

Cowboy and the Senorita as Trigger

Song of Nevada as Trigger, Roy's Horse

Hands Across the Border as Trigger

Lights of Old Santa Fe as Trigger

1943

Man from Music Mountain as Trigger - Roy's Horse

Silver Spurs as Trigger

King of the Cowboys as Trigger

Idaho as Trigger (uncredited)

Song of Texas as Trigger

1942

Man from Cheyenne as Roy's Horse

Sons of the Pioneers as Trigger

South of Santa Fe as Trigger

Sunset on the Desert as Trigger

Romance on the Range as Trigger

Sunset Serenade as Trigger

Heart of the Golden West as Trigger

Ridin' Down the Canyon as Trigger

1941

In Old Cheyenne as Trigger, Steve's Horse

Sheriff of Tombstone as Brett's Horse

Nevada City as Jeff's Horse

Bad Man of Deadwood as Brett's Horse

Jesse James at Bay as Jesse's Horse

Red River Valley as Trigger

1940

Rodeo Dough as Trigger

1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood as Maid Marian's Horse