
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 Roy Rogers Show
TV • 1951

Son of Paleface
MOVIE • 1952

The Adventures of Robin Hood
MOVIE • 1938

Melody Time
MOVIE • 1948

It's Showtime
MOVIE • 1976

Heldorado
MOVIE • 1946

Along the Navajo Trail
MOVIE • 1945

Pals of the Golden West
MOVIE • 1951

Trail of Robin Hood
MOVIE • 1950

Song of Arizona
MOVIE • 1946

Hollywood Canteen
MOVIE • 1944

Trigger, Jr.
MOVIE • 1950

King of the Cowboys
MOVIE • 1943

Alias Jesse James
MOVIE • 1959

Heart of the Rockies
MOVIE • 1951

Silver Spurs
MOVIE • 1943

Idaho
MOVIE • 1943

Ridin' Down the Canyon
MOVIE • 1942