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Trigger

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1934-07-04

Day of Death

1965-07-03

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.

Filmography (69)

⭐ 7.5 Role: Trigger (archive footage)

It's Showtime

1976
⭐ 6.0 Role: Trigger (uncredited)

Alias Jesse James

1959
⭐ 6.4 Role: Trigger

Son of Paleface

1952
⭐ 7.5 Role: Trigger

Pals of the Golden West

1951
⭐ 9.0 Role: Trigger

South of Caliente

1951
⭐ 8.0 Role: Trigger - Roy's Horse

In Old Amarillo

1951
⭐ 7.0 Role: Trigger

Heart of the Rockies

1951
⭐ 8.0 Role: Trigger

Spoilers of the Plains

1951
⭐ 6.3 Role: Trigger The Smartest Horse in the West

Trail of Robin Hood

1950
⭐ 8.0 Role: Trigger

North of the Great Divide

1950
⭐ 7.4 Role: Trigger - Roy's Horse

Sunset in the West

1950
⭐ 5.3 Role: Trigger - The Smartest Horse in the Movies

Trigger, Jr.

1950
⭐ 6.8 Role: Trigger

Twilight in the Sierras

1950
⭐ 7.0 Role: Trigger - Roy's Horse

The Golden Stallion

1949
⭐ 8.3 Role: Trigger

Down Dakota Way

1949