Roy Rogers

Roy Rogers

Born: November 5, 1911
Died: July 6, 1998
in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Roy Rogers, born Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), was an American singer and cowboy actor, as well as the namesake of the Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino, Trigger, and his German Shepherd dog, Bullet, were featured in more than 100 movies and The Roy Rogers Show. The show ran on radio for nine years before moving to television from 1951 through 1957. His productions usually featured a sidekick, often either Pat Brady, (who drove a Jeep called "Nellybelle"), Andy Devine, or the crotchety George "Gabby" Hayes. Rogers's nickname was "King of the Cowboys". Evans's nickname was "Queen of the West."

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Movies for Roy Rogers...

Title: Challenger: The Final Flight
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 16, 2020
Type: TV
Engineers, officials and the crew members' families provide their perspective on the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and its aftermath.
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Tammy Wynette: Legendary Performances
Title: Tammy Wynette: Legendary Performances
Character: himself
Released: September 19, 2008
Type: Movie
This collection of rare performances includes footage captured on video between 1967 and 1981 that has since been archived by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Throughout the late 1960s and '70s, Tammy Wynette reigned supreme on the country charts, contributing 20 #1 hits on her way to becoming the First Lady of Country Music. Her humble beginnings and tumultuous relationships throughout her life laid the groundwork for introspective and emotional singing and songwriting that helped her to define the role of the female country artist.
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All My Friends Are Cowboys
Title: All My Friends Are Cowboys
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
All My Friends Are Cowboys is a musical play based on the formative years of Kelly C. Crabb, who worked on a livestock farm in Utah before becoming an author and entertainment lawyer. The show was produced for television by PBS, and featured performances by Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Wilford Brimley, Joe Diffie and (in his final taped appearance) Roy Rogers.
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Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show'
Title: Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show'
Character: self
Released: December 25, 1992
Type: Movie
A comical and musical collection of yuletide appearances on the Ed Sullivan show. Timeless appearances by musical guests such as Johnny Mathis, Sergio Franchi and Bing Crosby are included along with comedic performers such as Topo Gigio and the Muppets.
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Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys
Title: Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys
Character: Himself
Released: October 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Thys Ockersen enjoyed in his childhood in the Fifties with his friends the Roy Rogers pictures in the local cinema. Many years later he starts his search for the old singing cowboy and his wife Dale Evans. A journey that starts in Amsterdam with a meeting with Roy's granddaughter Mindy who lives there. On his travels he meets co-stars of Roy and Dale and their director William Witney. And then there's the Roy Rogers Museum in Victorville where Thys talks with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and sees the stuffed Trigger.
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Title: Hot Country Nights
Released: November 24, 1991
Type: TV
Hot Country Nights is an American television series which presented country music acts performing their biggest hits. The series aired on NBC from November 1991 to March 1992. Each episode featured between four to six singing acts, including established stars, up-and-comers and a veteran star. A featured comedian would also perform between acts. Some of the comedians who appeared included Tim Allen and Jeff Dunham. The first broadcast featured Alabama, Clint Black, K.T. Oslin, Kenny Rogers and Pam Tillis.
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The Republic Pictures Story
Title: The Republic Pictures Story
Character: Self
Released: March 15, 1991
Type: Movie
A history of Republic Pictures studios, featuring hundreds of clips plus on-camera interviews with stars, director, stuntman, etc.
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Title: The Fall Guy
Released: November 4, 1981
Type: TV
Hollywood stuntman Colt Seavers picks up some extra pocket money by using his rough-and-tumble skills to track and capture bail jumpers.
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Title: Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters
Character: Self
Released: November 18, 1980
Type: TV
Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters is an American variety show hosted by Barbara, Louise, and Irlene Mandrell that aired on NBC for two season in 1980.
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Mickey's 50
Title: Mickey's 50
Character: Self
Released: November 19, 1978
Type: Movie
"Mickey's 50" is a 90-minute special that aired on The Wonderful World of Disney on November 19, 1978. The special was made to commemorate the 50th birthday of Mickey Mouse and highlights many moments in his career.
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Title: Western von gestern
Character: Roy Rogers (archive footage)
Released: May 5, 1978
Type: TV
Western von gestern is a German television series.
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Title: Western von gestern
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: May 5, 1978
Type: TV
Western von gestern is a German television series.
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Title: The Muppet Show
Character: Self - Special Guest Star
Released: September 5, 1976
Type: TV
Go behind the curtains as Kermit the Frog and his muppet friends struggle to put on a weekly variety show.
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Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Title: Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A Western-genre narrative, loosely woven from old clips from B-Western features.
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It's Showtime
Title: It's Showtime
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 31, 1976
Type: Movie
A collection of film clips profiling animal actors.
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Title: Donny & Marie
Character: Self
Released: January 23, 1976
Type: TV
Donny & Marie is an American variety show which aired on ABC from January 1976 to January 1979. The show stars brother and sister pop duo Donny Osmond and Marie Osmond. Donny had first become popular singing in a music group with his brothers, The Osmonds, and Marie was one of the youngest singers to reach #1 on the Billboard Country Music charts. The siblings were offered a weekly show by ABC-TV President Fred Silverman after he saw the duo co-host a week on The Mike Douglas Show which followed their series of popular remakes of oldies, such as "I'm Leaving It Up To You", "Morning Side Of The Mountain", "Deep Purple" and "Make The World Go Away". Donny and Marie were the youngest entertainers in TV history to host their own variety show. A year later, The Keane Brothers would break this record.
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Mackintosh and T.J.
Title: Mackintosh and T.J.
Character: Mackintosh
Released: November 21, 1975
Type: Movie
Roy is a ranch hand and a drifter. He takes a young man into his care and helps him to grow up.
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Title: Wonder Woman
Character: J.P. Hadley
Released: November 7, 1975
Type: TV
With the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of Aphrodite, she’s Wonder Woman. Beautiful Amazon princess Wonder Woman travels to 1940s America disguised as Diana Prince, assistant to handsome but trouble-prone Major Steve Trevor. Using her golden belt, which imbues her with astonishing strength, her bullet-deflecting bracelets, a golden lasso that dispels dishonesty and an invisible supersonic plane, Wonder Woman combats evil.
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Title: Tony Orlando and Dawn
Character: Self
Released: December 4, 1974
Type: TV
CBS gave the group a television variety show (entitled Tony Orlando and Dawn) from the summer of 1974, after The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour ended its run, until December 1976. The show was in the same vein as its predecessor (with sketches featuring sarcastic back-and-forth banter between Orlando, Hopkins and Vincent, similar to the sarcastic dialogue between Sonny and Cher) and became a Top 20 hit. They are most famous for "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" &  "Knock Three Times"!
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Saga of Sonora
Title: Saga of Sonora
Character: Roy
Released: May 3, 1973
Type: Movie
A musical TV special with Vince Edwards as a hero who must stop gold-greedy villains, Jill St. John and Zero Mostel, and prove his love to his girl, Lesley Ann Warren.
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Title: The Don Knotts Show
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 1970
Type: TV
The Don Knotts Show was a variety program aired by NBC as part of its 1970-71 lineup. Long relegated to the role of sidekick, which he had portrayed for many years in several television series and films, Don Knotts was the headliner here. Each week, he and his guests put on standard TV variety fare of the era. Two recurring features were a skit about the effort involved in putting a weekly television series on the air, much in the spirit of The Jack Benny Show, and The Front Porch, in which Don and a guest would sit in rocking chairs and quietly discuss their philosophies of life. Notable regulars in his cast included Elaine Joyce and Gary Burghoff, who had previously portrayed "Radar O'Reilly" in the film version of M*A*S*H and was about to achieve his greatest fame in reprising that role for the television version of it.
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Title: The Jim Nabors Hour
Released: September 25, 1969
Type: TV
The Jim Nabors Hour is an American variety television series hosted by Jim Nabors that aired on the CBS television network from 1969 to 1971. Fresh from his success with Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., which put his backwoods "Gomer Pyle" character from The Andy Griffith Show in a military context, the show not only built on that success, including Ronnie Schell and Frank Sutton, two of Nabors' old co-stars, but also displayed his baritone singing voice, which had been used on the Pyle show on occasion and had gotten Nabors several gold records in the late 1960s. The show was consistently in the top thirty and performed strongly in its time slot, but fell victim to the infamous CBS "rural purge" and was axed by the network.
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Title: The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 1969
Type: TV
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour is an American network television music and comedy variety show hosted by singer Glen Campbell from January 1969 through June 1972 on CBS. He was offered the show after he hosted a 1968 summer replacement for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. Campbell used "Gentle on My Mind" as the theme song of the show. The show was one of the few rural-oriented shows to survive CBS's rural purge of 1971.
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The Dean Martin Christmas Show
Title: The Dean Martin Christmas Show
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1968
Type: Movie
A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends.
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The Movie Orgy
Title: The Movie Orgy
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
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Title: The Hollywood Palace
Character: Self - Singer
Released: January 4, 1964
Type: TV
The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. Originally titled The Saturday Night Hollywood Palace, it began as a mid-season replacement for The Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood. A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl", who placed the names of the acts on a placard.
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The Sound of Laughter
Title: The Sound of Laughter
Character: Band Member (Hillbilly Guitarist)
Released: December 17, 1963
Type: Movie
A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
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Title: Petticoat Junction
Character: Fireater
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: TV
The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show
Released: September 29, 1962
Type: TV
The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show is a Western comedy and variety program. In addition to Rogers and Evans, the program featured the Sons of the Pioneers, Pat Brady, and Cliff Arquette.
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Title: The Beverly Hillbillies
Character: Fire Eater
Released: September 26, 1962
Type: TV
Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
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Alias Jesse James
Title: Alias Jesse James
Character: Roy Rogers (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse. And when Jesse learns that Milford's boss is on the way out with more cash, he plans to rob him too and have Milford get killed in the robbery while dressed as Jesse, and collect on the policy.
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Title: Kraft Music Hall
Character: Self - Host
Released: October 8, 1958
Type: TV
Kraft Music Hall is an umbrella title for several television series aired by NBC in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s in the musical variety genre, sponsored by Kraft Foods, the producers of a well-known line of cheeses and related dairy products. Their commercials were usually announced by "The Voice of Kraft", Ed Herlihy.
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Title: The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show is an American variety series hosted by Dinah Shore, and broadcast on NBC from October 1956 to June 1963. The series was sponsored by the Chevrolet Motor Division of General Motors and its theme song, sung by Shore, was "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet", which continued to be used in Chevrolet advertising for several more years after the cancellation of the show.
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Music Land
Title: Music Land
Character: Singer (archive footage)
Released: June 11, 1955
Type: Movie
Walt Disney animation animated cartoon musical compilation ("The BIG Parade of MIRTH and MELODY"; "Offering hits re-released from 'Make Mine Music' and 'Melody Time'"; featuring cartoons from the 1946 musical, "Make Mine Music," and the 1948 musical "Melody Time") featuring Donald Duck, Joe Carioca, and other Disney cartoon characters, and also songs by Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Frances Langford, Roy Rogers and Trigger, The Andrews Sisters (Laverne, Maxene, and Patty Andrews), Freddy Martin and his orchestra, Sons of the Pioneers, Jerry Colonna, and Ethel Smith
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Title: This Is Your Life
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: TV
This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961. In the show, the host surprises a guest, and proceeds to take them through their life in front of an audience, including special guest appearances by colleagues, friends and family. Edwards revived the show in 1971-72, while Joseph Campanella hosted a version in 1983. Edwards returned for some specials in the late 1980s, before his death in 2005. The show originated as a radio show on NBC Radio airing from 1948 to 1952.
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Son of Paleface
Title: Son of Paleface
Character: Roy Barton
Released: July 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Peter Potter Jr. returns to claim his father's gold, which is nowhere to be found.
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Title: The Roy Rogers Show
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: December 30, 1951
Type: TV
Roy Rogers is the owner of the RR Ranch in the Mineral City area, which he runs with the help of the German shepherd dog Bullet and his horse Trigger. Roy, supported by his friend Pat Brady, is often helping the weakest usually threatened by cattle thieves, dishonest sheriffs and villains of various kinds. Pat Brady works as a cook at the Eureka Café, owned by Dale Evans.
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Pals of the Golden West
Title: Pals of the Golden West
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: November 15, 1951
Type: Movie
US Border Patrolman Roy Rogers is assigned to prevent a herd of diseased cattle from crossing over from Mexico.
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South of Caliente
Title: South of Caliente
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: October 15, 1951
Type: Movie
"King of the Cowboys" Roy Rogers stars with his real-life wife, Dale Evans, in this Western about a hardworking farmer who helps a struggling rancher by transporting her prize horse to Mexico. A fortuitous meeting with a fortune-teller (Charlita) -- who specializes in dire predictions -- sets the tone for their adventures. Burlesque comic Pinky Lee co-stars, playing himself.
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In Old Amarillo
Title: In Old Amarillo
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: May 15, 1951
Type: Movie
A drought is about to end the cattle business. The owner of a canning factory wants to buy all the remaining cattle cheap. He plans to ruin the cattlemen's plans to ship water by train and to seed the clouds for rain. Roy is sent by a packing house to investigate.
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Heart of the Rockies
Title: Heart of the Rockies
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: March 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Roy is put in charge of a highway construction project. A rancher tries to stop Roy from putting a highway across his land because he fears that the authorities are going to discover the unscrupulous manner in which he got it.
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Spoilers of the Plains
Title: Spoilers of the Plains
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: February 2, 1951
Type: Movie
An experimental weather satellite and a missile base are at stake when Roy discovers foreign agents around his ranch.
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Trail of Robin Hood
Title: Trail of Robin Hood
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: December 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Retired actor Jack Holt is raising Christmas trees for sale at a cost which permits every family to have one. A commercial tree company tries to drive Holt out of business. Roy saves the day, of course.
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North of the Great Divide
Title: North of the Great Divide
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: November 15, 1950
Type: Movie
An Indian agent comes to the rescue when a local tribe's fishing rights are threatened by a greedy cannery owner.
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Sunset in the West
Title: Sunset in the West
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: September 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Roy puts a stop to gun smuggling.
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Title: The Colgate Comedy Hour
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1950
Type: TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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Trigger, Jr.
Title: Trigger, Jr.
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: June 30, 1950
Type: Movie
Evil Grant Withers lets a killer horse loose to ruin valuable horses on nearby ranches. He hopes to shake down the ranchers for his "protection". Roy tracks down the bad guys, but is suddenly trapped by them. Peter Miles, a boy terrified of horses, overcomes his fear and rides for help to save the day.
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Twilight in the Sierras
Title: Twilight in the Sierras
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: May 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Roy is a United States Marshal tracking down a counterfeiting ring and hunting down a mountain lion. Songs: "It's One Wonderful Day," "Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy," "Pancho's Rancho" and the title song.
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Title: What's My Line?
Character: Self - Mystery Guest
Released: February 2, 1950
Type: TV
Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
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Bells of Coronado
Title: Bells of Coronado
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: January 8, 1950
Type: Movie
An insurance investigator must track down thieves before they take off in a plane with stolen uranium ore.
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The Golden Stallion
Title: The Golden Stallion
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: November 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Diamonds are being smuggled across the border from Mexico in a specially made shoe of a palomino mare. One of the smugglers is killed when the mare runs off. The sheriff blames Trigger for the death. To keep his horse from being destroyed, Roy confesses and goes to jail. The smugglers buy Trigger and put him to work smuggling diamonds. The mare, who had earlier heard a trist with Trigger, foals Trigger, Jr. who Roy, finally out of jail, uses to help capture the smugglers.
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Down Dakota Way
Title: Down Dakota Way
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: September 9, 1949
Type: Movie
In Roy Rogers' Down Dakota Way, the deadly hoof-and-mouth disease has struck the herd owned by evil rancher H. T. McKenzie (Roy Barcroft). To avoid an expensive quarantine on his stock, McKenzie plans to murder the local veterinarian (Emmet Vogan) before the latter can report his findings to the government. Rogers manages to straighten out the situation by appealing to the sensibilities of the aunt (Elizabeth Risdon) of McKenzie's hotheaded hired assassin (Byron Barr). The film also bears several musical numbers from Roy, Dale Evans, and Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage.
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Susanna Pass
Title: Susanna Pass
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: April 29, 1949
Type: Movie
The bad guys dynamite a fish hatchery. They're trying to put the hatchery out of business so they can get possession of oil underneath the lake. Roy is a game warden investigating the dynamiting.
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The Far Frontier
Title: The Far Frontier
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: December 29, 1948
Type: Movie
Willis Newcomb and Bart Carroll head a gang engaged in smuggling wanted-American criminals back into the United States from Mexico. Operating from Sharperville, an oil town on the American side of the border, they transport their human cargo in oil drums loaded on trucks. Border Patrolman Tom Sharper intercepts one of the trucks but is overpowered and left for dead. Carroll, having already been paid for the job and not wanting any evidence to walk around, get caught and lead back to him, backs the human-cargo trucks to the edge of a cliff and sends the drums crashing to the boulder far below. Judge Cookie Bullfincher and Border Patrolman Roy Rogers conduct a search for the missing Tom, but the crooks have gone back for him and find him in a state of amnesia. They rob the bank and pin it on Tom. It is now up to Roy to clear his friend and also put an end to Carroll's human-smuggling racket.
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Grand Canyon Trail
Title: Grand Canyon Trail
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: November 4, 1948
Type: Movie
Sintown is just a deserted ghost town until Vanerpool starts looking for silver. Cookie and Roy's partners put $20,000 into the business only to find that the mine is worthless and Vanerpool is bankrupt. Carol comes out to look for silver to save the company, but does not know that their engineer, named Regan, is crooked and wants all the silver for himself. But only Old Ed knows where the mother lode is located.
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Night Time in Nevada
Title: Night Time in Nevada
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: September 5, 1948
Type: Movie
Twenty years earlier Farrell killed his mining partner Andrews. Now Andrews daughter arrives to get her father's trust fund. Farrell having rustled Roy's cattle now takes her money from her Lawyer and lets her overhear false information of their next rustling job. With the posse at the wrong location, his men attack the cattle train and Roy on board find himself greatly outnumbered.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self - Audience bow
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Ed Sullivan Show
Character: Self - Singer
Released: June 20, 1948
Type: TV
The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Eyes of Texas
Title: Eyes of Texas
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: June 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A ranch owner turns his place into a home for boys who have lost their fathers in World War II. His evil female lawyer covets the ranch and uses a gang of local toughs, a pack of killer dogs, and a phoney rancher's beneficiary to get it. U.S. Marshal Rogers opens an investigation when the rancher is killed.
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Pecos Bill
Title: Pecos Bill
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: May 27, 1948
Type: Movie
The life of the legendary Texas cowboy with his horse, Widowmaker, and how his romance with Slue Foot Sue disrupted it.
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Melody Time
Title: Melody Time
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: May 27, 1948
Type: Movie
In the grand tradition of Disney's great musical classics, Melody Time features seven timeless stories, each enhanced with high-spirited music and unforgettable characters. You'll be sure to tap your toes and clap your hands in this witty feast for the eyes and ears.
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Under California Stars
Title: Under California Stars
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: April 30, 1948
Type: Movie
On vacation at his ranch, western actor Roy quickly finds himself involved with a horse rustling operation and a boy ward of one of the rustlers, leading to the kidnapping of Roy's trick horse Trigger by the gang with a demand for ransom.
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The Gay Ranchero
Title: The Gay Ranchero
Character: Sheriff Roy Rogers
Released: January 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Manzanita Springs ia a combination small airline and spa and Vance Brados wants it. He pays their mechanic to have the planes run out of fuel so his men can rob the gold shipments and kill the pilots. After Sheriff Roy Rogers catches the mechanic, Roy plans one more gold shipment to get proof and this time his men will be ready. But it looks like Roy's plan will fail when Brados suspects a trap and call off the raid.
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On the Old Spanish Trail
Title: On the Old Spanish Trail
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: October 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A cowboy turns bounty hunter to pay off his debts.
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Springtime in the Sierras
Title: Springtime in the Sierras
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: July 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Jean Loring has her men illegally killing and selling game. Roy suspects her and gets himself invited to stay at her ranch. Investigating he finds the freezer where the slaughtered game are kept. But he is caught, tied up, and left to freeze.
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Bells of San Angelo
Title: Bells of San Angelo
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: April 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Gridley is mining silver from an old Mexican mine and bringing it into the USA thru a passage into his worthless mine. Border guard Rogers suspects Gridley and finally finds the secret entrance to the Mexican mine. He sends Lee Madison for help only to have her captured by Gridley. Trigger brings help that takes care of Gridley's men and now Roy has to rescue Madison.
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Apache Rose
Title: Apache Rose
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: February 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Roy is an oil prospector. His efforts to get drilling rights on an old Spanish land grant are countered by gamblers from an off-shore gambling boat determined to control the land (and oil) themselves.
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Out California Way
Title: Out California Way
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: December 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Newcomer Monte Hale is tying to just get a job in western films when he meet young Danny McCoy and his sister Gloria. Danny is trying to get his horse, "Pardner" into films. Monte sings a song and "Pardner" does some tricks and a casting director notices. Monte gets a singing-cowboy role and the horse gets a bit, but there is an accidental explosion, engineered by western star Rod Mason, who is jealous of Monte, and the horse is badly scared and blows his lines.
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Heldorado
Title: Heldorado
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: December 15, 1946
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers, a Nevada State Ranger Captain in charge of the Rangers Reclamation Service, makes a trip to Las Vegas for the annual Heldorado Frontier Days Festival, as he wants to help his old friend Gabby Whittaker who originated the idea (at least, in this film).In Las Vegas, Roy meets heiress Carol Randall, who has been selected as the Queen of the Heldorado. Roy is informed that the F.B.I. wants an immediate investigation of the counterfeit thousand dollar bills that are being passed over the gambling tables at the casino.
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Home in Oklahoma
Title: Home in Oklahoma
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: October 18, 1946
Type: Movie
In this Roy Rogers entry, featuring a song written by Oklahoma Governor Roy J. Turner (making him and Lousiania's Jimmie Davis and Texas' W.E. "Pappy" O'Daniel possibly the only state governors to write songs used in a western), Flying U ranch owner Sam Talbot is killed by a fall from a horse. St. Louis reporter Connie Edwards comes to check a rumor that he might have been murdered. She goes to Roy Rogers, editor of the local newspaper, and he takes her to the reading of Talbot's will. The ranch is left to Talbot's 12-year-old ward, Duke Lowery, much to the dismay of Talbot's niece, Jan Holloway. After some attempts on Duke's life, Roy finally proves that Jan, Steve McClory and coroner Jim Judnick had Talbot killed and are conspiring to do the same for Duke, making Jan the last heir.
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Roll on Texas Moon
Title: Roll on Texas Moon
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: September 12, 1946
Type: Movie
To get the Delaney ranch Cole's henchman Anders has started a phony range war between the cattlemen and sheepmen. After killing Delaney, he tries to kill his daughter Jill and then Roy who was sent to investigate the war. But the failed attempts gives Roy the information he needs.
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Under Nevada Skies
Title: Under Nevada Skies
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: August 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Rodeo star Roy Rogers returns home to find that his old friend Tom Craig has been murdered after he was accused of stealing a family crest from Helen Williams. Helen joins up with Roy and Gabby Whittaker to find the killers and the crest.
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My Pal Trigger
Title: My Pal Trigger
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: July 10, 1946
Type: Movie
Gabby doesn't want to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When Sovereign and Roy's horse escape, the Sovereign gets shot accidentally by Skoville but Roy is blamed and jailed. A year later Roy returns with Trigger, the son of the Sovereign. When Skoville reveals he was present when the horse was shot, Roy sees an opportunity to clear his name.
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Rainbow Over Texas
Title: Rainbow Over Texas
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: May 9, 1946
Type: Movie
Roy visits his home town while on a personal appearance tour. While there he enters a pony express race. To keep him from winning, bad guys try to sabatoge Roy's entry. They fail, or course. Songs include the title song and "Smile for me, Senorita."
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Song of Arizona
Title: Song of Arizona
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: March 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers rides to the rescue when a bank robber's orphaned son (Tommy Cook), who is living at a ranch for homeless boys run by Gabby Whittaker (George "Gabby" Hayes), attracts the attention his father's rowdy gang, who want to claim the boy's inheritance for themselves
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Don't Fence Me In
Title: Don't Fence Me In
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: October 20, 1945
Type: Movie
Wildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magazine who comes West to find out the true story of Kelly, of whom Gabby seems to have mysterious knowledge.
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Sunset in El Dorado
Title: Sunset in El Dorado
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: September 29, 1945
Type: Movie
The story involves a rather odd flashback by Dale who is visiting El Dorado, home of her grandmother. She dreams about her grandmother's adventures including a romance with a cowboy who looks very much like Roy. Roy, of course, also exists in the present for Dale.
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Along the Navajo Trail
Title: Along the Navajo Trail
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: September 15, 1945
Type: Movie
U.S. Deputy Marshal Roy investigates the disappearance of a government agent who has come to Dale's father's Ladder A Ranch. The bad guys want the land the ranch sits on because they know an oil pipeline is planned through this location.
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Man from Oklahoma
Title: Man from Oklahoma
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: July 1, 1945
Type: Movie
The feuding Lanes and Whittakers are brought together with the help of Roy Rogers, when a business tycoon tries to play one family against the other.
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Bells of Rosarita
Title: Bells of Rosarita
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: June 19, 1945
Type: Movie
Sue Farnum inherits a circus, but her dead father's partner is trying to take it away from her. Roy and Bob Nolan are filming a movie on location at the circus. They and a number of other western movie stars come to Sue's aid, putting on a show and catching the bad guys.
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Utah
Title: Utah
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: March 21, 1945
Type: Movie
A singing ranch foreman (Roy Rogers) and his friend (George "Gabby" Hayes) urge a chorus-girl heiress (Dale Evans) not to sell the property.
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Hollywood Canteen
Title: Hollywood Canteen
Character: Self
Released: December 15, 1944
Type: Movie
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
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Brazil
Title: Brazil
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: November 30, 1944
Type: Movie
Brazil is perhaps the best of the handful of US films made by Brazilian singing sensation Tito Guizar. In typical screwball-comedy fashion, the plot is set in motion by authoress Nicky Henderson, who has hit the best-seller charts with her latest tome, Why Marry a Latin? While researching her next book in Rio De Janeiro, she finds out "why" when she meets handsome songwriter Miguel Soares. Upon learning about Nicky's book, Miguel decides to teach her a few lessons in the affairs of the heart. Edward Everett Horton is also on hand, twittering his way through the role of a well-meaning buttinsky. Thanks to the "Good Neighbor" policy of the 1940s, South American musicals were a glut on the market, but Brazil was good enough on its own merits to pay its way at the box office.
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Lights of Old Santa Fe
Title: Lights of Old Santa Fe
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: November 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Sandwiched in between the numerous musical numbers, the Gabby Whittaker and Madden rodeo's are competing for bookings. When Gabby gets a date in Albuquerque, Madden has his man destroy his equipment. Roy finds a broken rawhide rope at the scene and uses it to bring Madden to justice.
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San Fernando Valley
Title: San Fernando Valley
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: September 15, 1944
Type: Movie
A ranch owner fires his ranch hands and brings in women to replace them. The owner's daughter wants the male hands back and comes up with a plan to do it.
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Song of Nevada
Title: Song of Nevada
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: August 5, 1944
Type: Movie
When John Barrabbee's plane makes an emergency landing, he wanders off and joins Roy's cattle drive. Later he learns he was killed when his plane resumed its flight and crashed. He also learns his daughter is going to sell his ranch and marry a man he dislikes. So he gives Roy a job on the ranch and sends him off to see if he can prevent both of these events while he remains in hiding. Written by Maurice VanAuken Western girl moves east and influenced badly by her snobby fiance. She returns to sell her deceased father's ranch. The father isn't really dead, though; he's hoping that his friend Roy can restore the girl's western values. Songs include "New Moon Over Nevada," "A Cowboy has to Yodel in the Morning," and "The Harum Scarum Baron of the Harmonium." Written by Ed Stephan
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The Yellow Rose of Texas
Title: The Yellow Rose of Texas
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: June 24, 1944
Type: Movie
Insurance Investigator Roy is looking for Weston and the missing money he supposedly obtained in a robbery. When he catches him and listens to his story, he changes his mind about him. A freak accident locates the missing money box and they find the seal unbroken. Roy then announces the box will be opened at the showboat that evening.
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Cowboy and the Senorita
Title: Cowboy and the Senorita
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: May 13, 1944
Type: Movie
Chip has inherited a supposedly worthless gold mine from her father and Craig Allen is about to buy it. Roy suspects the mine may be valuable and using a clue left by Chip's father, investigates. He finds the hidden shaft that contains the gold and with the posse chasing him on a trumped up robbery charge, races to town with ore samples hoping to get there before the ownership is transferred.
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Hands Across the Border
Title: Hands Across the Border
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: January 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Horse breeders Adams and Brock are vying for the Army contract. When Adams is killed trying to ride his horse Trigger, Roy saves the horse from being shot. He trains him and then plans to ride him in the race to win the contract.
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Man from Music Mountain
Title: Man from Music Mountain
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: October 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Roy returns home to fine a range feud between the cattlemen and the sheepmen. When his friend is killed he finds the rifle had a defective pin. He learns the rifle belongs to a ranch hand named Barker and that a third party has caused the feud. When he captures outlaws trying to blow up a dam, he claims Barker was the killer. But Barker has switched rifles and the outlaws now accuse Roy and Roy finds himself in trouble.
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Silver Spurs
Title: Silver Spurs
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: August 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Jerry Johnson inherits a 50,000 acre ranch. Lucky Miller wants to take over the ranch. Roy is trying to get a railroad spur right of way. Lucky has a woman come west to marry Jerry to get control of the ranch. After the wedding, Lucky has the owner killed. Roy’s gun is substituted for the murder weapon, so Roy is put in jail.
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Song of Texas
Title: Song of Texas
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: June 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A man of no worth brags to his daughter back East that he is rich and owns a big ranch. When she decides to pay a visit to her father, Roy and his buddies agree to pretend that the poor man is the owner of the ranch.
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King of the Cowboys
Title: King of the Cowboys
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: April 9, 1943
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers, Smiley Burnette and the Sons of the Pioneers go undercover to help Texas Governor Russell Hicks stop World War II Axis sympathizers from blowing up U.S. warehouses.
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Idaho
Title: Idaho
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
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Ridin' Down the Canyon
Title: Ridin' Down the Canyon
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: December 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers takes on crooked wartime profiteers in the musical western Ridin' Down the Canyon. Posing as solid citizens, the crooks spend their evening hours stealing horses from local ranchers, then selling the steeds to the government at exorbitant prices. The head of the bad guys runs a dude ranch where Rogers and his pals (The Sons of the Pioneers) are employed.
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Heart of the Golden West
Title: Heart of the Golden West
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: November 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Lambert owns the trucking line that ships cattle to market. When he raises his rates Roy decides to ship the cattle on the River Boat. When Lambert and his men are unable to stop the boat, they rustle the cattle.
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Sunset Serenade
Title: Sunset Serenade
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: September 14, 1942
Type: Movie
Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl. Songs include "I'm Headin's for the Home Corral," "He's a No Good Son of a Gun," "Sandman Lullaby," "Song of the San Joaquin," and "I'm a Cowboy Rockefeller."
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Sons of the Pioneers
Title: Sons of the Pioneers
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: July 2, 1942
Type: Movie
A singing entomologist (Roy Rogers) acts meek to help a juggling sheriff (George "Gabby" Hayes) solve ranch raids.
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Romance on the Range
Title: Romance on the Range
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: May 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends.
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Sunset on the Desert
Title: Sunset on the Desert
Character: Roy Rogers / Bill Sloan
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of Roy's father and when Roy reads in the paper that he is in trouble he heads out to help him. Arriving, Roy quickly realizes he has been mistaken for one of the outlaws and is not wanted in town. However he stays, and now posing as that outlaw, hopes to learn who is causing all the problems.
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South of Santa Fe
Title: South of Santa Fe
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: February 17, 1942
Type: Movie
To get the three needed business men to visit the Stevens mine, Roy stages a ride with the Vacaros and has them as honored guests. Seeing a chance to make a lot of money, gangster Harmon joins the ride and then has his men kidnap the three. Having filmed a fake holdup earlier, he uses the film to convince the Sheriff that Roy and the boys were the Kidnapers.
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Man from Cheyenne
Title: Man from Cheyenne
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: January 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Roy is a government man assigned to a case of cattle rustling in the part of the country where he grew up, unaware that the leader of the gang is a woman, in fact an old flame.
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Red River Valley
Title: Red River Valley
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: December 12, 1941
Type: Movie
To bring water to their valley, ranchers have raised money to build a dam. When that money is stolen, Allison suggests the ranchers sell their stock to a friend of his thereby getting the money needed to complete the dam. Roy has a clue that Allison was involved in the robbery and is out to get control of the valley. So Roy and the boys try to delay the sale of the stock while they look for proof against Allison.
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Jesse James at Bay
Title: Jesse James at Bay
Character: Jesse James / Clint Burns
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a Jesse look alike in Burns, hires him to wreck havoc on the ranchers. When Jesse kills Burns he switches clothes and goes after the culprits.
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Bad Man of Deadwood
Title: Bad Man of Deadwood
Character: Brett Starr aka Bill Brady
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy and Gabby fight bad guys to save the town of Deadwood.
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Meet the Stars #7: Meet Roy Rogers
Title: Meet the Stars #7: Meet Roy Rogers
Character: Himself
Released: June 24, 1941
Type: Movie
Short introduction to Roy Rogers
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Nevada City
Title: Nevada City
Character: Jeff Connors
Released: June 19, 1941
Type: Movie
The conflict between a railroader and a stage line owner is being aggravated by bad guys who are sabotaging both sides. Roy and Gabby mediate the conflict and expose the bad guys.
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Sheriff of Tombstone
Title: Sheriff of Tombstone
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: May 7, 1941
Type: Movie
The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is mistaken for the gunslinger. Just as Roy is ready to expose the mayor, the real gunslinger shows up.
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In Old Cheyenne
Title: In Old Cheyenne
Character: Steve Blane
Released: April 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is.
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Arkansas Judge
Title: Arkansas Judge
Character: Tom Martel
Released: January 28, 1941
Type: Movie
Arkansas Judge is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers as a young lawyer defending a farmer accused of slander.
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Robin Hood of the Pecos
Title: Robin Hood of the Pecos
Character: Vance Corbin
Released: January 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Robin Hood of the Pecos is a 1941 American film starring Roy Rogers and directed by Joseph Kane. Following the Civil War, the South still faced many dangers not the least of which were the armies of carpetbaggers that descended on impoverished towns, intent on making a fast greenback at the expense of the local populace.
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The Border Legion
Title: The Border Legion
Character: Steve Kells
Released: December 5, 1940
Type: Movie
Wanted by the law in New York, Dr. Steve Kells heads west and arrives in an area controlled by an outlaw gang known as the Border Legion. When the gang's boss is wounded, they kidnap Kells and force him to remove the bullet. Not allowed to leave and being a wanted man, he joins the gang. Now wanted as a gang member also, he nevertheless plans a raid that will lead the entire gang into a trap.
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Rodeo Dough
Title: Rodeo Dough
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: November 9, 1940
Type: Movie
After a trip to Hollywood, two young ladies attempt to hitchhike home but end up at a star-filled rodeo.
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Young Bill Hickok
Title: Young Bill Hickok
Character: 'Wild' Bill Hickok
Released: October 21, 1940
Type: Movie
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.
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Colorado
Title: Colorado
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: September 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.
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The Ranger and the Lady
Title: The Ranger and the Lady
Character: Roy Colt
Released: July 30, 1940
Type: Movie
While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying to impose a self-serving tax on the use of the Santa Fe trail. The lady owner of a wagon train is using the trail, and a Texas Ranger comes to her assistance.
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The Carson City Kid
Title: The Carson City Kid
Character: The Carson City Kid's Brother
Released: July 1, 1940
Type: Movie
The Carson City Kid and partner Laramie are outlaws. When his partner is caught the Kid, his identity being unknown, takes a job in Jessup's saloon. Here he see Jessup cheat Waren out of his money. Warren then robs Jessup posing as the Kid but gets caught. To gain his freedom, Laramie identifies Warren as the Kid. Realizing Jessup is the man that killed his brother, the Kid must find a way to clear Warren and get Jessup.
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Dark Command
Title: Dark Command
Character: Fletcher 'Fletch' McCloud
Released: April 15, 1940
Type: Movie
When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air however. It's just prior to the civil war and there is already a sharp division in the Territory as to whether it will remain slave-free. When he gets the opportunity to run for marshal, Seton finds himself running against the respected local schoolteacher, William Cantrell. Not is what it seems however. While acting as the upstanding citizen in public, Cantrell is dangerously ambitious and is prepared to do anything to make his mark, and his fortune, on the Territory. When he loses the race for marshal, he forms a group of raiders who run guns into the territory and rob and terrorize settlers throughout the territory. Eventually donning Confederate uniforms, it is left to Seton and the good citizens of Lawrence to face Cantrell and his raiders in one final clash.
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Young Buffalo Bill
Title: Young Buffalo Bill
Character: Bill Cody
Released: April 11, 1940
Type: Movie
It's 1860 and the old Spanish land grants are being surveyed. Montez is after part of Don Regas' rancho and gets the surveyor to alter the boundary. But Don Regas still has the original grant written on a bandanna. Montez sends Indians after it but Bill Cody and Gabby fight them off and a wounded Gabby unknowingly ends up with the missing million dollar deed wrapped around his arm for a bandage.
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Days of Jesse James
Title: Days of Jesse James
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: December 20, 1939
Type: Movie
Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.
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Saga of Death Valley
Title: Saga of Death Valley
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
When Tasker kills Roy Rogers he takes one of his young sons. Fifteen years later the other son Roy arrives buying a ranch in the valley where Tasker now controls the water supply. Roy organizes the ranchers for a showdown with Tasker not knowing that his brother is Tasker's chief henchman.
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Jeepers Creepers
Title: Jeepers Creepers
Character: Sheriff Roy Rogers
Released: October 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Sentenced to toil on a family's land, a greedy man discovers coal and secretly buys the property.
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The Arizona Kid
Title: The Arizona Kid
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: September 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.
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Wall Street Cowboy
Title: Wall Street Cowboy
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: August 6, 1939
Type: Movie
When his ranch falls on hard times, Cowboy Roy Roger has trouble making his mortgage payment and he takes his song and dance to Wall Street to try to raise cash fast.
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In Old Caliente
Title: In Old Caliente
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: June 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Americans come west to California in the hope of peaceful settlement. Roy and Gabby sing a duet: "We're Not Coming Out Tonight." Other songs include "Sundown on the Rangeland" and "Ride on Vaquero."
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Frontier Pony Express
Title: Frontier Pony Express
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: April 11, 1939
Type: Movie
In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. When Roy refuses he turns to the outlaw Johnson and his gang and this leads to trouble.
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Southward Ho!
Title: Southward Ho!
Character: Roy
Released: March 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy and Gabby return to Gabby's Texas ranch, after fighting with the Confederate military during the American Civil War, to find that a blustery Union Colonel whom they have previously hassled is now their district commander. Unbeknownst to the Colonel, however, is that the soldiers he believes have been sent to assist him are actually Union Army rejects who have come to loot the civilian populace under the guise of reinstituting normalcy to the former Confederate district.
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Rough Riders' Round-up
Title: Rough Riders' Round-up
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: March 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a local saloon. Determined to get revenge at any cost, Roy and Rusty cross the border in search of Arizona Jack, the man responsible for Tommy's death.
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Shine On Harvest Moon
Title: Shine On Harvest Moon
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
A rustler's son (Roy Rogers) courts a rancher's daughter (Mary Hart) during a range war.
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Come On, Rangers
Title: Come On, Rangers
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: November 21, 1938
Type: Movie
A Texas Ranger (Roy Rogers) and his pals come out of forced retirement to do what the cavalry cannot.
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A Feud There Was
Title: A Feud There Was
Character: Peacemaker / Egghead (singing voice)
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
The McCoys and the Weavers are two feuding hillbilly clans. Elmer Fudd, Peacemaker, attempts to end the fighting; but violence and zaniness win out.
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Billy The Kid Returns
Title: Billy The Kid Returns
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: September 4, 1938
Type: Movie
After Pat Garrett kills Billy the Kid, Billy's look-alike Roy Rogers arrives and is mistaken for him. Although a murderer, Billy was on the side of the homesteaders against the large ranchers. As Billy's death is unknown, Roy gets Garrett to let him pose as Billy to continue the fight, but without the killing.
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Under Western Stars
Title: Under Western Stars
Character: Roy Rogers
Released: April 20, 1938
Type: Movie
In his starring debut, Roy gets elected to Congress in order to bring water to the ranchers in his district. In Washington, he learns he needs the backing of a key congressman and gets that man to go west for an inspection trip. When the congressman is initially unimpressed, Roy gets the inspection party stranded without water to show the true conditions.
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The Old Barn Dance
Title: The Old Barn Dance
Character: Singer
Released: January 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Autry and his buddies have a horse selling business which is threatened by a tractor company which claims horses are out of date.
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Wild Horse Rodeo
Title: Wild Horse Rodeo
Character: Singer
Released: December 6, 1937
Type: Movie
A champion rodeo rider returns home to track down a legendary wild horse called "Cyclone."
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The Star Reporter in Hollywood
Title: The Star Reporter in Hollywood
Character: Son of the Pioneers
Released: October 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Part of Paramount Headliner: Hollywood Star Reporter series
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The Old Corral
Title: The Old Corral
Character: Buck O'Keefe
Released: December 21, 1936
Type: Movie
As the sheriff of a small western town, Autry sings his way into a relationship with Eleanor, a singer from a Chicago nightclub who earlier witnessed a murder.
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California Mail
Title: California Mail
Character: Square Dance Caller (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
The Pony Express is finished as the Post Office plans to award the mail contract to a stage line. Bill and his father put in a bid for the mail, however there are three bids close together. The officials will run a race to pick the winner, and the Banton Brothers sabotage Bill's stage. Mary still believes in Bill until they try to get rid of him by holding up the regular stage with his well-known horse. Bill needs proof to clear himself and expose the bad guys.
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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Title: Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to the West Side Tennis Club affords glimpses of many stars.
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Rhythm on the Range
Title: Rhythm on the Range
Character: Leonard - Sons of the Pioneers
Released: July 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the farm where he works. He tries to win her heart, but without success, until she is endangered by gangsters
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Song of the Saddle
Title: Song of the Saddle
Character: Guitarist (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior gets away. He comes back 10 years later to settle the score as the Singing Cowboy. He finds that Hook is still doing his dirty deeds on the unsuspecting people. Along the way, Frank meets the lovely Jen, who came out in the same wagon train 10 years before.
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The Mysterious Avenger
Title: The Mysterious Avenger
Character: Len
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Texas Ranger Ranny Maitland's father is feuding with his neighbor Lockhart. Pretending to be on Lockhart's side in the feud, Ranny goes to investigate. Meanwhile is father is murdered and Lockhart arrested.
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Gallant Defender
Title: Gallant Defender
Character: Nester (Sons of the Pioneers)
Released: November 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Munro and his gang control the valley and are driving away all nesters. Johnny arrives, and taking an interest in Barbara McGrail, decides to help the nesters. He receives unexpected help from Barbara's uncle who is posing as Salty Smith, one of Munro's hired guns. Salty thinks Munro killed his brother and is out to get proof.
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Way Up Thar
Title: Way Up Thar
Character: Band Member
Released: November 7, 1935
Type: Movie
This 1934 short subject was Mack Sennett's final directorial effort for Educational Pictures, and comedienne Joan Davis' film debut. It features Buster Keaton's Mother and Sister, Myra and Louise, respectively. A very young Roy Rogers (billed as Leonard Slye) is featured as a member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and sings a few songs during the course of the movie.
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The Old Homestead
Title: The Old Homestead
Character: Len
Released: October 5, 1935
Type: Movie
A New York radio talent scout turns up at a barn dance.
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Slightly Static
Title: Slightly Static
Character: Member of Sons of the Pioneers (uncredited)
Released: September 7, 1935
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.