Trigger
Actor
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
Melody Time
as Trigger 1948
Son of Paleface
as Trigger 1952
Hollywood Canteen
as Self 1944
Alias Jesse James
as Trigger (uncredited) 1959
The Yellow Rose of Texas
as Roy's Horse 1944
My Pal Trigger
as Trigger, Smartest Horse in the Movies 1946
Bells of San Angelo
as Trigger 1947
Under California Stars
as Trigger 1948
Jesse James at Bay
as Jesse's Horse 1941
Heldorado
as Trigger - Roy's Horse 1946
Song of Arizona
as Trigger 1946
Home in Oklahoma
as Trigger 1946
Trigger, Jr.
as Trigger - The Smartest Horse in the Movies 1950
Sunset in the West
as Trigger - Roy's Horse 1950
Hands Across the Border
as Trigger 1944
In Old Cheyenne
as Trigger, Steve's Horse 1941