Trigger

Birthday: 1934-07-04
Deathday: 1965-07-03
Birthplace: San Diego, California, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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.

Credits

Year	Title	Character
1959-03-20	Alias Jesse James	Trigger (uncredited)
1952-07-14	Son of Paleface	Trigger
1951-11-15	Pals of the Golden West	Trigger
1951-10-15	South of Caliente	Trigger
1951-05-15	In Old Amarillo	Trigger - Roy's Horse
1951-03-29	Heart of the Rockies	Trigger
1951-02-02	Spoilers of the Plains	Trigger
1950-12-15	Trail of Robin Hood	Trigger The Smartest Horse in the West
1950-11-15	North of the Great Divide	Trigger
1950-09-25	Sunset in the West	Trigger - Roy's Horse
1950-06-30	Trigger, Jr.	Trigger - The Smartest Horse in the Movies
1950-05-20	Twilight in the Sierras	Trigger
1949-11-15	The Golden Stallion	Trigger - Roy's Horse
1949-09-09	Down Dakota Way	Trigger
1949-04-29	Susanna Pass	Trigger - Roy's Horse
1948-12-29	The Far Frontier	Trigger - Roy's Horse
1948-11-04	Grand Canyon Trail	Trigger, Roy's Horse
1948-09-05	Night Time in Nevada	Trigger - Roy's Horse
1948-06-15	Eyes of Texas	Trigger
1948-05-27	Melody Time	Trigger
1948-04-30	Under California Stars	Trigger
1948-01-14	The Gay Ranchero	Trigger
1947-10-15	On the Old Spanish Trail	Trigger
1947-07-15	Springtime in the Sierras	Trigger - Roy's Horse
1947-04-15	Bells of San Angelo	Trigger
1947-02-15	Apache Rose	Trigger
1946-12-15	Heldorado	Trigger - Roy's Horse
1946-12-15	Out California Way	Trigger - Roy's Horse
1946-10-18	Home in Oklahoma	Trigger
1946-09-12	Roll on Texas Moon	The Smartest Horse in the Movies
1946-08-26	Under Nevada Skies	Roy's Horse
1946-07-10	My Pal Trigger	Trigger, Smartest Horse in the Movies
1946-05-09	Rainbow Over Texas	Trigger
1946-03-08	Song of Arizona	Trigger
1945-10-20	Don't Fence Me In	Trigger
1945-09-29	Sunset in El Dorado	Trigger
1945-09-15	Along the Navajo Trail	Trigger
1945-07-01	Man from Oklahoma	Trigger
1945-06-19	Bells of Rosarita	Trigger
1945-03-21	Utah	Trigger
1944-11-06	Lights of Old Santa Fe	Trigger
1944-09-15	San Fernando Valley	Trigger
1944-08-05	Song of Nevada	Trigger, Roy's Horse
1944-06-24	The Yellow Rose of Texas	Roy's Horse
1944-05-13	Cowboy and the Senorita	Trigger
1944-01-05	Hands Across the Border	Trigger
1943-10-30	Man from Music Mountain	Trigger - Roy's Horse
1943-08-12	Silver Spurs	Trigger
1943-06-14	Song of Texas	Trigger
1943-04-09	King of the Cowboys	Trigger
1943-03-10	Idaho	Trigger (uncredited)
1942-12-30	Ridin' Down the Canyon	Trigger
1942-11-16	Heart of the Golden West	Trigger
1942-09-14	Sunset Serenade	Trigger
1942-07-02	Sons of the Pioneers	Trigger
1942-05-18	Romance on the Range	Trigger
1942-04-01	Sunset on the Desert	Trigger
1942-02-17	South of Santa Fe	Trigger
1942-01-16	Man from Cheyenne	Roy's Horse
1941-12-12	Red River Valley	Trigger
1941-10-17	Jesse James at Bay	Jesse's Horse
1941-09-05	Bad Man of Deadwood	Brett's Horse
1941-06-19	Nevada City	Jeff's Horse
1941-05-07	Sheriff of Tombstone	Brett's Horse
1941-04-04	In Old Cheyenne	Trigger, Steve's Horse
1940-11-09	Rodeo Dough	Trigger
1938-05-13	The Adventures of Robin Hood	Maid Marian's Horse