Trigger (Actor)

Reviews of Trigger Movies

Looking for reviews of Trigger movies? Cinafilm has a total of 812 reviews across 37 movies.

Movies starring Trigger have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.

The Adventures of Robin Hood - released in 1938 - is Trigger's highest rated movie, with a score of 83% based on 641 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Trigger is King of the Cowboys - released in 1943 - with a score of 45% based on 4 reviews.

Actor 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.

Trigger has acted in films with Roy Rogers, Bob Nolan, Dale Evans and George 'Gabby' Hayes.

Trigger has worked with these film directors: William Witney, Joseph Kane, Frank McDonald and John English.