Actor
Trigger
Born 1934 · San Diego, California, USA
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
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Maid Marian's Horse · 1938
Melody Time
Trigger · 1948
Hollywood Canteen
Self · 1944
Son of Paleface
Trigger · 1952
Sons of the Pioneers
Trigger · 1942
South of Caliente
Trigger · 1951
Alias Jesse James
Trigger (uncredited) · 1959
Down Dakota Way
Trigger · 1949
Sunset in the West
Trigger - Roy's Horse · 1950
Spoilers of the Plains
Trigger · 1951
Man from Cheyenne
Roy's Horse · 1942
In Old Amarillo
Trigger - Roy's Horse · 1951
The Roy Rogers Show
Trigger · 1951
North of the Great Divide
Trigger · 1950
Red River Valley
Trigger · 1941
Susanna Pass
Trigger - Roy's Horse · 1949
Sheriff of Tombstone
Brett's Horse · 1941
San Fernando Valley
Trigger · 1944
Rainbow Over Texas
Trigger · 1946
The Yellow Rose of Texas
Roy's Horse · 1944
It's Showtime
Trigger (archive footage) · 1976
Pals of the Golden West
Trigger · 1951
Ridin' Down the Canyon
Trigger · 1942
Out California Way
Trigger · 1946