Trigger

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1934-07-04 (31 years old)

Deathday

1965-07-03

Place of Birth

San Diego, California, USA

Also known As

Golden Cloud

The Smartest Horse in the Movies

Trigger

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 ...

Acting

1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood

as Maid Marian's Horse

1946

Home in Oklahoma

as Trigger

1947

Springtime in the Sierras

as Trigger - Roy's Horse

1947

as Trigger

1946

as Trigger, Smartest Horse in the Movies

1944

Hollywood Canteen

as Self

1947

Bells of San Angelo

as Trigger

1945

as Trigger

1948

as Trigger

1944

The Yellow Rose of Texas

as Roy's Horse

1943

Man from Music Mountain

as Trigger - Roy's Horse

1946

Roll on Texas Moon

as The Smartest Horse in the Movies

1944

San Fernando Valley

as Trigger

1949

The Golden Stallion

as Trigger - Roy's Horse

1948

as Trigger

1950

as Trigger - The Smartest Horse in the Movies

1950

Twilight in the Sierras

as Trigger

1951

South of Caliente

as Trigger

1949

Down Dakota Way

as Trigger

1946

as Trigger - Roy's Horse

1948

The Far Frontier

as Trigger - Roy's Horse

1951

Heart of the Rockies

as Trigger

1951

In Old Amarillo

as Trigger - Roy's Horse

1951

Pals of the Golden West

as Trigger

1951

Spoilers of the Plains

as Trigger

1976

as Trigger (archive footage)

1950

North of the Great Divide

as Trigger

1950

Sunset in the West

as Trigger - Roy's Horse

1944

Cowboy and the Senorita

as Trigger

1944

as Trigger, Roy's Horse

1952

Son of Paleface

as Trigger

1944

Hands Across the Border

as Trigger

1945

Man from Oklahoma

as Trigger

1945

Along the Navajo Trail

as Trigger

1945

Bells of Rosarita

as Trigger

1944

Lights of Old Santa Fe

as Trigger

1945

Sunset in El Dorado

as Trigger

1945

Don't Fence Me In

as Trigger

1946

Rainbow Over Texas

as Trigger

1946

Out California Way

as Trigger - Roy's Horse

1946

Song of Arizona

as Trigger

1947

On the Old Spanish Trail

as Trigger

1949

as Trigger - Roy's Horse

1948

Under California Stars

as Trigger

1948

The Gay Ranchero

as Trigger

1948

Grand Canyon Trail

as Trigger, Roy's Horse

1948

Night Time in Nevada

as Trigger - Roy's Horse

1941

In Old Cheyenne

as Trigger, Steve's Horse

1941

Sheriff of Tombstone

as Brett's Horse

1941

Red River Valley

as Trigger

1941

as Jeff's Horse

1941

Bad Man of Deadwood

as Brett's Horse

1941

Jesse James at Bay

as Jesse's Horse

1942

Man from Cheyenne

as Roy's Horse

1942

Sons of the Pioneers

as Trigger

1942

South of Santa Fe

as Trigger

1942

Sunset on the Desert

as Trigger

1942

Romance on the Range

as Trigger

1942

Heart of the Golden West

as Trigger

1942

Ridin' Down the Canyon

as Trigger

1942

Sunset Serenade

as Trigger

1950

Trail of Robin Hood

as Trigger The Smartest Horse in the West

1943

as Trigger

1943

King of the Cowboys

as Trigger

1943

as Trigger (uncredited)

1943

as Trigger

1959

Alias Jesse James

as Trigger (uncredited)

1946

Under Nevada Skies

as Roy's Horse

1940

as Trigger

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