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Trigger
Actor
Died July 3, 1965 (30 years)
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
| 1976 | It's Showtime · as Trigger (archive footage) |
| 1964 | The Hollywood Palace (TV Series) · as Trigger |
| 1959 | Alias Jesse James · as Trigger (uncredited) |
| 1952 | Son of Paleface · as Trigger |
| 1951 | Spoilers of the Plains · as Trigger |
| 1951 | South of Caliente · as Trigger |
| 1951 | Heart of the Rockies · as Trigger |
| 1951 | In Old Amarillo · as Trigger - Roy's Horse |
| 1951 | Pals of the Golden West · as Trigger |
| 1951 | The Roy Rogers Show (TV Series) · as Trigger |
| 1950 | Trigger, Jr. · as Trigger - The Smartest Horse in the Movies |
| 1950 | Trail of Robin Hood · as Trigger The Smartest Horse in the West |
| 1950 | Twilight in the Sierras · as Trigger |
| 1950 | Bells of Coronado · as Roy's Horse |
| 1950 | North of the Great Divide · as Trigger |
| 1950 | The Colgate Comedy Hour (TV Series) · as Trigger |
| 1949 | The Golden Stallion · as Trigger - Roy's Horse |
| 1949 | Susanna Pass · as Trigger - Roy's Horse |
| 1949 | Down Dakota Way · as Trigger |
| 1948 | Under California Stars · as Trigger |
| 1948 | Eyes of Texas · as Trigger |
| 1948 | Grand Canyon Trail · as Trigger, Roy's Horse |
| 1948 | The Far Frontier · as Trigger - Roy's Horse |
| 1948 | Nighttime in Nevada · as Trigger - Roy's Horse |
| 1948 | The Gay Ranchero · as Trigger |
| 1948 | Melody Time · as Trigger |
| 1947 | Bells of San Angelo · as Trigger |
| 1947 | Springtime in the Sierras · as Trigger - Roy's Horse |
| 1947 | On the Old Spanish Trail · as Trigger |
| 1947 | Apache Rose · as Trigger |
| 1946 | My Pal Trigger · as Trigger, Smartest Horse in the Movies |
| 1946 | Heldorado · as Trigger - Roy's Horse |
| 1946 | Roll on Texas Moon · as The Smartest Horse in the Movies |
| 1946 | Under Nevada Skies · as Roy's Horse |
| 1946 | Home in Oklahoma · as Trigger |
| 1946 | Rainbow Over Texas · as Trigger |
| 1946 | Song of Arizona · as Trigger |
| 1945 | Bells of Rosarita · as Trigger |
| 1945 | Sunset in El Dorado · as Trigger |
| 1945 | Don't Fence Me In · as Trigger |
| 1945 | Utah · as Trigger |
| 1945 | Along the Navajo Trail · as Trigger |
| 1945 | Man from Oklahoma · as Trigger |
| 1944 | Lights of Old Santa Fe · as Trigger |
| 1944 | Hands Across the Border · as Trigger |
| 1944 | Cowboy and the Senorita · as Trigger |
| 1944 | The Yellow Rose of Texas · as Roy's Horse |
| 1944 | Song of Nevada · as Trigger, Roy's Horse |
| 1944 | San Fernando Valley · as Trigger |
| 1943 | King of the Cowboys · as Trigger |
| 1943 | Song of Texas · as Trigger |
| 1943 | |
| 1943 | Man from Music Mountain · as Trigger - Roy's Horse |
| 1943 | Silver Spurs · as Trigger |
| 1942 | Sunset Serenade · as Trigger |
| 1942 | Ridin' Down the Canyon · as Trigger |
| 1942 | Man from Cheyenne · as Roy's Horse |
| 1942 | Heart of the Golden West · as Trigger |
| 1942 | Sunset on the Desert · as Trigger |
| 1942 | South of Santa Fe · as Trigger |
| 1942 | Romance on the Range · as Trigger |
| 1942 | Sons of the Pioneers · as Trigger |
| 1941 | Bad Man of Deadwood · as Brett's Horse |
| 1941 | Sheriff of Tombstone · as Brett's Horse |
| 1941 | In Old Cheyenne · as Trigger, Steve's Horse |
| 1941 | Red River Valley · as Trigger |
| 1941 | Jesse James at Bay · as Jesse's Horse |
| 1941 | Robin Hood of the Pecos · as Corbin's Horse |
| 1941 | Nevada City · as Jeff's Horse |
| 1940 | The Border Legion · as Steve's Horse |
| 1940 | Young Bill Hickok · as Hickok's Horse |
| 1940 | |
| 1940 | The Carson City Kid · as The Kid's Horse |
| 1940 | Young Buffalo Bill · as Cody's Horse |
| 1940 | The Ranger and the Lady · as Colt's Horse |
| 1939 | Rough Riders' Round-up · as Roy's Horse |
| 1939 | In Old Caliente · as Trigger |
| 1939 | Southward Ho! · as Trigger |
| 1939 | The Arizona Kid · as Trigger |
| 1939 | Wall Street Cowboy · as Trigger |
| 1939 | Days of Jesse James · as Trigger |
| 1939 | Saga of Death Valley · as Roy's Horse |
| 1939 | Frontier Pony Express · as Trigger |
| 1938 | Billy the Kid Returns · as Trigger |
| 1938 | Under Western Stars · as Trigger |
| 1938 | Come on, Rangers! · as Trigger |
| 1938 | Shine on Harvest Moon · as Trigger |
| 1938 | The Adventures of Robin Hood · as Maid Marian's Horse |