Trigger
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1934-07-04
Day of Death
1965-07-03 (30 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.
Acting
(1976)
It's Showtime
as Trigger (archive footage)
(1959)
Alias Jesse James
as Trigger (uncredited)
(1952)
Son of Paleface
as Trigger
(1951)
Heart of the Rockies
as Trigger
(1951)
Spoilers of the Plains
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
(1950)
Trigger, Jr.
as Trigger - The Smartest Horse in the Movies
(1950)
Twilight in the Sierras
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
(1949)
Susanna Pass
as Trigger - Roy's Horse
(1949)
Down Dakota Way
as Trigger
(1949)
The Golden Stallion
as Trigger - Roy's Horse
(1948)
Melody Time
as Trigger
(1948)
Grand Canyon Trail
as Trigger, Roy's Horse
(1948)
Under California Stars
as Trigger
(1948)
Eyes of Texas
as Trigger
(1948)
The Far Frontier
as Trigger - Roy's Horse
(1948)
The Gay Ranchero
as Trigger
(1948)
Night Time in Nevada
as Trigger - Roy's Horse
(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)
Under Nevada Skies
as Roy's Horse
(1946)
Roll on Texas Moon
as The Smartest Horse in the Movies
(1946)
Home in Oklahoma
as Trigger
(1946)
Heldorado
as Trigger - Roy's Horse
(1946)
Song of Arizona
as Trigger
(1946)
My Pal Trigger
as Trigger, Smartest Horse in the Movies
(1946)
Out California Way
as Trigger - Roy's Horse
(1946)
Rainbow Over Texas
as Trigger
(1945)
Utah
as Trigger
(1945)
Along the Navajo Trail
as Trigger
(1945)
Sunset in El Dorado
as Trigger
(1945)
Man from Oklahoma
as Trigger
(1945)
Don't Fence Me In
as Trigger
(1945)
Bells of Rosarita
as Trigger
(1944)
Cowboy and the Senorita
as Trigger
(1944)
Hollywood Canteen
as Self
(1944)
Song of Nevada
as Trigger, Roy's Horse
(1944)
The Yellow Rose of Texas
as Roy's Horse
(1944)
Hands Across the Border
as Trigger
(1944)
San Fernando Valley
as Trigger
(1944)
Lights of Old Santa Fe
as Trigger
(1943)
Idaho
as Trigger (uncredited)
(1943)
Silver Spurs
as Trigger
(1943)
King of the Cowboys
as Trigger
(1943)
Man from Music Mountain
as Trigger - Roy's Horse
(1943)
Song of Texas
as Trigger
(1942)
Sunset Serenade
as Trigger
(1942)
Sons of the Pioneers
as Trigger
(1942)
Ridin' Down the Canyon
as Trigger
(1942)
Heart of the Golden West
as Trigger
(1942)
Sunset on the Desert
as Trigger
(1942)
South of Santa Fe
as Trigger
(1942)
Man from Cheyenne
as Roy's Horse
(1942)
Romance on the Range
as Trigger
(1941)
Red River Valley
as Trigger
(1941)
In Old Cheyenne
as Trigger, Steve's Horse
(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
(1940)
Rodeo Dough
as Trigger
(1938)
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Maid Marian's Horse