Trigger
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.
The Adventures of Robin Hood
(Maid Marian's Horse)
Home in Oklahoma
(Trigger)
Springtime in the Sierras
(Trigger - Roy's Horse)
Apache Rose
(Trigger)
My Pal Trigger
(Trigger, Smartest Horse in the Movies)
Hollywood Canteen
(Self)
Bells of San Angelo
(Trigger)
Utah
(Trigger)
Melody Time
(Trigger)
The Yellow Rose of Texas
(Roy's Horse)
Man from Music Mountain
(Trigger - Roy's Horse)
Roll on Texas Moon
(The Smartest Horse in the Movies)
San Fernando Valley
(Trigger)
The Golden Stallion
(Trigger - Roy's Horse)
Eyes of Texas
(Trigger)
Trigger, Jr.
(Trigger - The Smartest Horse in the Movies)
Twilight in the Sierras
(Trigger)
South of Caliente
(Trigger)
Down Dakota Way
(Trigger)
Heldorado
(Trigger - Roy's Horse)
The Far Frontier
(Trigger - Roy's Horse)
Heart of the Rockies
(Trigger)
In Old Amarillo
(Trigger - Roy's Horse)
Pals of the Golden West
(Trigger)
Spoilers of the Plains
(Trigger)
It's Showtime
(Trigger (archive footage))
North of the Great Divide
(Trigger)
Sunset in the West
(Trigger - Roy's Horse)
Cowboy and the Senorita
(Trigger)
Song of Nevada
(Trigger, Roy's Horse)
Son of Paleface
(Trigger)
Hands Across the Border
(Trigger)
Man from Oklahoma
(Trigger)
Along the Navajo Trail
(Trigger)
Bells of Rosarita
(Trigger)
Lights of Old Santa Fe
(Trigger)
Sunset in El Dorado
(Trigger)
Don't Fence Me In
(Trigger)
Rainbow Over Texas
(Trigger)
Out California Way
(Trigger - Roy's Horse)
Song of Arizona
(Trigger)
On the Old Spanish Trail
(Trigger)
Susanna Pass
(Trigger - Roy's Horse)
Under California Stars
(Trigger)
The Gay Ranchero
(Trigger)
Grand Canyon Trail
(Trigger, Roy's Horse)
Night Time in Nevada
(Trigger - Roy's Horse)
In Old Cheyenne
(Trigger, Steve's Horse)
Sheriff of Tombstone
(Brett's Horse)
Red River Valley
(Trigger)
Nevada City
(Jeff's Horse)
Bad Man of Deadwood
(Brett's Horse)
Jesse James at Bay
(Jesse's Horse)
Man from Cheyenne
(Roy's Horse)
Sons of the Pioneers
(Trigger)
South of Santa Fe
(Trigger)
Sunset on the Desert
(Trigger)
Romance on the Range
(Trigger)
Heart of the Golden West
(Trigger)
Ridin' Down the Canyon
(Trigger)
Sunset Serenade
(Trigger)
Trail of Robin Hood
(Trigger The Smartest Horse in the West)
Silver Spurs
(Trigger)
King of the Cowboys
(Trigger)
Idaho
(Trigger (uncredited))
Song of Texas
(Trigger)
Alias Jesse James
(Trigger (uncredited))
Under Nevada Skies
(Roy's Horse)
Rodeo Dough
(Trigger)
The Roy Rogers Show
(Trigger)