Trigger

Trigger

Birthday: 1934-07-04

Deathday: 1965-07-03

Place of birth: San Diego, California, USA

Also known as: Golden Cloud, The Smartest Horse in the Movies

imdb_id: nm1022326

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.

Played in movies:

Red River Valley

Score: 7.7

Man from Cheyenne

Score: 7.5

Sunset in the West

Score: 7.5

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Score: 7.5

Hollywood Canteen

Score: 7.3

Ridin' Down the Canyon

Score: 7.0

It's Showtime

Score: 7.0

Down Dakota Way

Score: 7.0

Sheriff of Tombstone

Score: 6.8

Son of Paleface

Score: 6.3

Night Time in Nevada

Score: 6.2

Apache Rose

Score: 6.2

Home in Oklahoma

Score: 6.2

Melody Time

Score: 6.1

Out California Way

Score: 6.0

Song of Nevada

Score: 6.0

Spoilers of the Plains

Score: 6.0

In Old Amarillo

Score: 6.0

Heart of the Rockies

Score: 6.0

The Far Frontier

Score: 6.0

Eyes of Texas

Score: 6.0

Roll on Texas Moon

Score: 6.0

Alias Jesse James

Score: 5.8

Sunset on the Desert

Score: 5.8

Idaho

Score: 5.7

Romance on the Range

Score: 5.7

Heldorado

Score: 5.6

King of the Cowboys

Score: 5.5

Sunset Serenade

Score: 5.5

Hands Across the Border

Score: 5.5

Twilight in the Sierras

Score: 5.5

The Golden Stallion

Score: 5.5

The Yellow Rose of Texas

Score: 5.5

Bells of Rosarita

Score: 5.4

My Pal Trigger

Score: 5.4

Rodeo Dough

Score: 5.3

Trail of Robin Hood

Score: 5.2

On the Old Spanish Trail

Score: 5.2

Lights of Old Santa Fe

Score: 5.2

Under Nevada Skies

Score: 5.0

Song of Texas

Score: 5.0

Nevada City

Score: 5.0

Grand Canyon Trail

Score: 5.0

Susanna Pass

Score: 5.0

Man from Music Mountain

Score: 5.0

Utah

Score: 5.0

Under California Stars

Score: 4.7

Trigger, Jr.

Score: 4.6

South of Santa Fe

Score: 4.5

Bad Man of Deadwood

Score: 4.4

Don't Fence Me In

Score: 4.3

Song of Arizona

Score: 4.3

Jesse James at Bay

Score: 4.2

Sunset in El Dorado

Score: 4.2

Springtime in the Sierras

Score: 4.2

In Old Cheyenne

Score: 4.1

Bells of San Angelo

Score: 4.1

The Gay Ranchero

Score: 4.0

Rainbow Over Texas

Score: 4.0

Man from Oklahoma

Score: 4.0

Silver Spurs

Score: 3.8

Cowboy and the Senorita

Score: 3.7

Heart of the Golden West

Score: 1.5

Sons of the Pioneers

Score: 0.0

Along the Navajo Trail

Score: 0.0

North of the Great Divide

Score: 0.0

Pals of the Golden West

Score: 0.0

South of Caliente

Score: 0.0

San Fernando Valley

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

The Roy Rogers Show

Score: 6.4