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.

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Acting

1976

It's Showtime as Trigger (archive footage)

1959

Alias Jesse James as Trigger (uncredited)

1952

Son of Paleface as Trigger

1951		The Roy Rogers Show as Trigger
1951		Pals of the Golden West as Trigger
1951		South of Caliente as Trigger
1951		In Old Amarillo as Trigger - Roy's Horse
1951		Heart of the Rockies as Trigger
1951		Spoilers of the Plains as Trigger

1950		Trail of Robin Hood as Trigger The Smartest Horse in the West
1950		North of the Great Divide as Trigger
1950		Sunset in the West as Trigger - Roy's Horse
1950		Trigger, Jr. as Trigger - The Smartest Horse in the Movies
1950		Twilight in the Sierras as Trigger

1949		The Golden Stallion as Trigger - Roy's Horse
1949		Down Dakota Way as Trigger
1949		Susanna Pass as Trigger - Roy's Horse

1948		The Far Frontier as Trigger - Roy's Horse
1948		Grand Canyon Trail as Trigger, Roy's Horse
1948		Night Time in Nevada as Trigger - Roy's Horse
1948		Eyes of Texas as Trigger
1948		Melody Time as Trigger
1948		Under California Stars as Trigger
1948		The Gay Ranchero as Trigger

1947		On the Old Spanish Trail as Trigger
1947		Springtime in the Sierras as Trigger - Roy's Horse
1947		Bells of San Angelo as Trigger
1947		Apache Rose as Trigger

1946		Heldorado as Trigger - Roy's Horse
1946		Out California Way as Trigger - Roy's Horse
1946		Home in Oklahoma as Trigger
1946		Roll on Texas Moon as The Smartest Horse in the Movies
1946		Under Nevada Skies as Roy's Horse
1946		My Pal Trigger as Trigger, Smartest Horse in the Movies
1946		Rainbow Over Texas as Trigger
1946		Song of Arizona as Trigger

1945		Don't Fence Me In as Trigger
1945		Sunset in El Dorado as Trigger
1945		Along the Navajo Trail as Trigger
1945		Man from Oklahoma as Trigger
1945		Bells of Rosarita as Trigger
1945		Utah as Trigger

1944		Hollywood Canteen as Self
1944		Lights of Old Santa Fe as Trigger
1944		San Fernando Valley as Trigger
1944		Song of Nevada as Trigger, Roy's Horse
1944		The Yellow Rose of Texas as Roy's Horse
1944		Cowboy and the Senorita as Trigger
1944		Hands Across the Border as Trigger

1943		Man from Music Mountain as Trigger - Roy's Horse
1943		Silver Spurs as Trigger
1943		Song of Texas as Trigger
1943		King of the Cowboys as Trigger
1943		Idaho as Trigger (uncredited)

1942		Ridin' Down the Canyon as Trigger
1942		Heart of the Golden West as Trigger
1942		Sunset Serenade as Trigger
1942		Sons of the Pioneers as Trigger
1942		Romance on the Range as Trigger
1942		Sunset on the Desert as Trigger
1942		South of Santa Fe as Trigger
1942		Man from Cheyenne as Roy's Horse

1941		Red River Valley as Trigger
1941		Jesse James at Bay as Jesse's Horse
1941		Bad Man of Deadwood as Brett's Horse
1941		Nevada City as Jeff's Horse
1941		Sheriff of Tombstone as Brett's Horse
1941		In Old Cheyenne as Trigger, Steve's Horse

1940

Rodeo Dough as Trigger

1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood as Maid Marian's Horse