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Trigger

Birthday: 1934-07-04 | Place of Birth: San Diego, California, USA

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1951
The Roy Rogers Show

as    Trigger

1951
Spoilers of the Plains

as    Trigger

1951
Heart of the Rockies

as    Trigger

1951
South of Caliente

as    Trigger

1951
In Old Amarillo

as    Trigger - Roy's Horse

1950
Sunset in the West

as    Trigger - Roy's Horse

1950
Trigger, Jr.

as    Trigger - The Smartest Horse in the Movies

1950
Trail of Robin Hood

as    Trigger The Smartest Horse in the West

1949
Susanna Pass

as    Trigger - Roy's Horse

1949
The Golden Stallion

as    Trigger - Roy's Horse

1948
Melody Time

as    Trigger

1948
The Gay Ranchero

as    Trigger

1948
Eyes of Texas

as    Trigger

1948
The Far Frontier

as    Trigger - Roy's Horse

1948
Grand Canyon Trail

as    Trigger, Roy's Horse

1947
Bells of San Angelo

as    Trigger

1947
On the Old Spanish Trail

as    Trigger

1946
Under Nevada Skies

as    Roy's Horse

1946
Rainbow Over Texas

as    Trigger

1946
Heldorado

as    Trigger - Roy's Horse

1946
My Pal Trigger

as    Trigger, Smartest Horse in the Movies

1945
Sunset in El Dorado

as    Trigger

1945
Don't Fence Me In

as    Trigger

1945
Along the Navajo Trail

as    Trigger

1945
Bells of Rosarita

as    Trigger