Trigger
Acting
Born July 4, 1934 · San Diego, California, USA
Died July 3, 1965
Also known as Golden Cloud · The Smartest Horse in the Movies
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.
Filmography50+ titles
South of Caliente
Spoilers of the Plains
San Fernando Valley
Man from Cheyenne
Pals of the Golden West
Out California Way
Under Nevada Skies
Ridin' Down the Canyon
Red River Valley
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Rainbow Over Texas
Hollywood Canteen
Sheriff of Tombstone
Heart of the Rockies
Eyes of Texas
Nevada City
Night Time in Nevada
The Roy Rogers Show
Home in Oklahoma
The Gay Ranchero
The Far Frontier
Romance on the Range
Apache Rose
Roll on Texas Moon
Song of Nevada
Song of Texas
Idaho
Bells of Rosarita
Sunset Serenade
Melody Time
The Yellow Rose of Texas
Alias Jesse James
Heldorado
Hands Across the Border
King of the Cowboys
Sunset on the Desert
Don't Fence Me In
Cowboy and the Senorita
Grand Canyon Trail
Sunset in El Dorado
Lights of Old Santa Fe
On the Old Spanish Trail
My Pal Trigger
Utah
Man from Music Mountain
Trigger, Jr.
Under California Stars
Bad Man of Deadwood
South of Santa Fe
Springtime in the Sierras