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.

All movies available from Trigger

Movies unavailable from Trigger

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Maid Marian's Horse

Movie 1938

Home in Oklahoma

Trigger

Movie 1946

Springtime in the Sierras

Trigger - Roy's Horse

Movie 1947

Apache Rose

Trigger

Movie 1947

Hollywood Canteen

Self

Movie 1944

The Yellow Rose of Texas

Roy's Horse

Movie 1944

Utah

Trigger

Movie 1945

Man from Music Mountain

Trigger - Roy's Horse

Movie 1943

My Pal Trigger

Trigger, Smartest Horse in the Movies

Movie 1946

Bells of San Angelo

Trigger

Movie 1947

Roll on Texas Moon

The Smartest Horse in the Movies

Movie 1946

San Fernando Valley

Trigger

Movie 1944

The Golden Stallion

Trigger - Roy's Horse

Movie 1949

Eyes of Texas

Trigger

Movie 1948

Twilight in the Sierras

Trigger

Movie 1950

Trigger, Jr.

Trigger - The Smartest Horse in the Movies

Movie 1950

Down Dakota Way

Trigger

Movie 1949

South of Caliente

Trigger

Movie 1951

Heldorado

Trigger - Roy's Horse

Movie 1946

The Far Frontier

Trigger - Roy's Horse

Movie 1948

Heart of the Rockies

Trigger

Movie 1951

In Old Amarillo

Trigger - Roy's Horse

Movie 1951

Pals of the Golden West

Trigger

Movie 1951

Spoilers of the Plains

Trigger

Movie 1951

It's Showtime

Trigger (archive footage)

Movie 1976

North of the Great Divide

Trigger

Movie 1950

Sunset in the West

Trigger - Roy's Horse

Movie 1950

Cowboy and the Senorita

Trigger

Movie 1944

Song of Nevada

Trigger, Roy's Horse

Movie 1944

Son of Paleface

Trigger

Movie 1952

Hands Across the Border

Trigger

Movie 1944

Man from Oklahoma

Trigger

Movie 1945

Along the Navajo Trail

Trigger

Movie 1945

Bells of Rosarita

Trigger

Movie 1945

Lights of Old Santa Fe

Trigger

Movie 1944

Sunset in El Dorado

Trigger

Movie 1945

Don't Fence Me In

Trigger

Movie 1945

Rainbow Over Texas

Trigger

Movie 1946

Out California Way

Trigger - Roy's Horse

Movie 1946

Song of Arizona

Trigger

Movie 1946

On the Old Spanish Trail

Trigger

Movie 1947

Susanna Pass

Trigger - Roy's Horse

Movie 1949

Under California Stars

Trigger

Movie 1948

Night Time in Nevada

Trigger - Roy's Horse

Movie 1948

The Gay Ranchero

Trigger

Movie 1948

Grand Canyon Trail

Trigger, Roy's Horse

Movie 1948

In Old Cheyenne

Trigger, Steve's Horse

Movie 1941

Bad Man of Deadwood

Brett's Horse

Movie 1941

Red River Valley

Trigger

Movie 1941

Nevada City

Jeff's Horse

Movie 1941

Jesse James at Bay

Jesse's Horse

Movie 1941

Sheriff of Tombstone

Brett's Horse

Movie 1941

Man from Cheyenne

Roy's Horse

Movie 1942

Sons of the Pioneers

Trigger

Movie 1942

South of Santa Fe

Trigger

Movie 1942

Sunset on the Desert

Trigger

Movie 1942

Ridin' Down the Canyon

Trigger

Movie 1942

Heart of the Golden West

Trigger

Movie 1942

Sunset Serenade

Trigger

Movie 1942

Romance on the Range

Trigger

Movie 1942

Trail of Robin Hood

Trigger The Smartest Horse in the West

Movie 1950

Silver Spurs

Trigger

Movie 1943

Song of Texas

Trigger

Movie 1943

Idaho

Trigger (uncredited)

Movie 1943

King of the Cowboys

Trigger

Movie 1943

Alias Jesse James

Trigger (uncredited)

Movie 1959

Under Nevada Skies

Roy's Horse

Movie 1946

Rodeo Dough

Trigger

Movie 1940

Tv series unavailable from Trigger

The Roy Rogers Show

Trigger

Tv 1951