
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.

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1951

as Maid Marian's Horse
1938

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1945

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1948

as Trigger - The Smartest Horse in the Movies
1950

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1943

as Jeff's Horse
1941

as Trigger - Roy's Horse
1946

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as Trigger (uncredited)
1959

as Trigger (archive footage)
1976
as Trigger
1952

as Trigger (archive footage)
1976

as Trigger (uncredited)
1959

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1951

as Trigger - Roy's Horse
1951

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1951

as Trigger The Smartest Horse in the West
1950

as Trigger
1950

as Trigger - Roy's Horse
1950

as Trigger - The Smartest Horse in the Movies
1950

as Trigger
1950

as Trigger - Roy's Horse
1949

as Trigger
1949

as Trigger - Roy's Horse
1949

as Trigger - Roy's Horse
1948

as Trigger, Roy's Horse
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