
Trigger
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.
70 acting credits
Acting · 70

The Roy Rogers Show
1951

The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938

Melody Time
1948

Alias Jesse James
1959

Silver Spurs
1943

Hollywood Canteen
1944

Idaho
1943

It's Showtime
1976

Song of Texas
1943

Heart of the Golden West
1942

Sunset Serenade
1942

Son of Paleface
1952

Grand Canyon Trail
1948

The Yellow Rose of Texas
1944

Hands Across the Border
1944

Cowboy and the Senorita
1944

The Far Frontier
1948

Springtime in the Sierras
1947

My Pal Trigger
1946

Jesse James at Bay
1941

Red River Valley
1941

Under California Stars
1948

Sunset in El Dorado
1945

South of Santa Fe
1942

Heldorado
1946

Utah
1945

Romance on the Range
1942

Susanna Pass
1949

The Golden Stallion
1949

On the Old Spanish Trail
1947

Eyes of Texas
1948

Man from Oklahoma
1945

The Gay Ranchero
1948

Along the Navajo Trail
1945

Twilight in the Sierras
1950

North of the Great Divide
1950

Ridin' Down the Canyon
1942

Apache Rose
1947

Night Time in Nevada
1948

Lights of Old Santa Fe
1944

In Old Amarillo
1951

King of the Cowboys
1943

Man from Music Mountain
1943

San Fernando Valley
1944

Roll on Texas Moon
1946

In Old Cheyenne
1941

Sunset on the Desert
1942

Bells of San Angelo
1947

Sunset in the West
1950

Out California Way
1946

Song of Arizona
1946

Heart of the Rockies
1951

Don't Fence Me In
1945

Nevada City
1941

Under Nevada Skies
1946

Trigger, Jr.
1950

Spoilers of the Plains
1951

Pals of the Golden West
1951

Song of Nevada
1944

Rodeo Dough
1940

Sons of the Pioneers
1942

Bells of Rosarita
1945

Home in Oklahoma
1946

South of Caliente
1951

Bad Man of Deadwood
1941

Down Dakota Way
1949

Sheriff of Tombstone
1941

Rainbow Over Texas
1946

Man from Cheyenne
1942

Trail of Robin Hood
1950