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.

Most Known For

The Roy Rogers Show

as Trigger

The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Maid Marian's Horse

Heldorado

as Trigger - Roy's Horse

Melody Time

as Trigger

Alias Jesse James

as Trigger (uncredited)

Son of Paleface

as Trigger

Jesse James at Bay

as Jesse's Horse

Trigger, Jr.

as Trigger - The Smartest Horse in the Movies

Sunset Serenade

as Trigger

Silver Spurs

as Trigger

Home in Oklahoma

as Trigger

King of the Cowboys

as Trigger

It's Showtime

as Trigger (archive footage)

In Old Cheyenne

as Trigger, Steve's Horse

Bells of Rosarita

as Trigger

Under California Stars

as Trigger

Cowboy and the Senorita

as Trigger

Utah

as Trigger

Bells of San Angelo

as Trigger

My Pal Trigger

as Trigger, Smartest Horse in the Movies