Roy Rogers

Age: 86 (passed away Jul. 6th, 1998)
Height: 5' 10 1/2"

Birth Place: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Born: Nov. 5th, 1911

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Roy Rogers' Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
The Andy Williams Show (1962)	Roy Rogers
The Hollywood Palace	Singer (9)
The Roy Rogers Show	Roy Rogers
Jimmy Durante Presents the Lennon Sisters	Roy Rogers
Person To Person	Roy Rogers

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Roy Rogers (born Leonard Slye) moved to California in 1930, aged 18. He played in such musical groups as The Hollywood Hillbillies, Rocky Mountaineers, Texas Outlaws, and his own group, the International Cowboys. In 1934 he formed a group with Bob Nolan called Sons of the Pioneers. While in that group he was known as Leonard Slye, then Dick Weston. Their songs included "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds". They first appeared in the western Rhythm on the Range (1936), starring Bing Crosby and Martha Raye. In 1936 he appeared as a bandit opposite Gene Autry in "The Old Coral". In 1937 Rogers went solo from "The Sons Of The Pioneeres", and made his first starring film in 1938, Under Western Stars (1938). He made almost 100 films. "The Roy Rogers Show" (1951) ran on NBC from October 1951 through 1957 and on CBS from 1961 to September 1964. In 1955, 67 of his feature films were released to television.

TRIVIA:

He had two children and 1 adopted daughter with Arlene Wilkins.
Inducted (as a member of the 'Sons of the Pioneers' (qv)) into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1995.
The little town of Portsmouth, Ohio (USA) also claims to be the hometown of Roy. They also have a little museum with mementoes and hoofprints of 'Trigger (I)' (qv), handprints of Roy and Dusty in the sidewalk in front of the museum. Every year they had a Roy Rogers Day and Roy or Dusty would make an appearance.
His dog's name was 'Bullet (I)' (qv) and appeared in almost as many of his films as did 'Trigger (I)' (qv).
His adopted daughter is 'Little Doe Rogers' (qv).
Childhood home was on real estate that later included second base in Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium.
Once lived next door to actor 'Val Kilmer' (qv) (when Val was a child). When Roy moved, the Kilmers later moved into to his old ranch. Then, in 1999, Val led a Trigger lookalike on stage at the 1999 Academy Awards in honor of Roy Rogers.
Rogers was asked to run for Congress on the Republican ticket at one time. He replied, "I have both Democrat and Republican fans and I can't afford to lose any of them!".

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