Rogers, Roy

Rogers, Roy
orig. Leonard Franklin Slye Rogers

born Nov. 5, 1911/12, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
died July 6, 1998, Apple Valley, Calif.

U.S. actor and singer.

During his childhood Rogers took up singing, guitar playing, and square-dance calling. He made radio and personal appearances with a succession of groups before helping form the singing group Sons of the Pioneers. He acted in westerns with Gene Autry, whom he replaced as "King of the Cowboys" when Autry went to war. His films include Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935), Red River Valley (1941), and Yellow Rose of Texas (1944). He acted in several with his wife, Dale Evans, usually riding his famous horse, Trigger. He also starred on radio in The Roy Rogers Show (1944–55) as well as on television in a series of the same name (1951–57).

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▪ 1999

      American cowboy actor-singer (b. Nov. 5, 1911/12, Cincinnati, Ohio—d. July 6, 1998, Apple Valley, Calif.), starred in some 90 motion pictures and over 100 episodes of a weekly television show from the late 1930s to the mid-1950s and reigned as king of the cowboys. The quintessential "good guy in a white hat," he subdued villains by shooting the guns from their hands instead of trying to kill them. During his childhood Rogers took up singing, guitar playing, and square-dance calling. He worked as a fruit picker in California and as a cowhand in New Mexico during the Depression, and, at the same time, he and his cousin Stanley Slye began performing as the Slye Brothers. Rogers made radio and personal appearances with a succession of groups before helping form the Pioneer Trio, which, because of a radio announcer's mistake, became Sons of the Pioneers. They recorded such hits as "Tumbling Tumbleweeds," their theme song, and "Cool Water"; were said to have put the "western" in country-and-western music; and by 1935 were appearing in motion pictures. Rogers was given his first starring role in the 1938 film Under Western Stars, which also featured Trigger, the horse that would be his costar until 1965, when Trigger died. Another favourite costar, his sidekick George ("Gabby") Hayes, joined Rogers in Southward Ho! (1939). For The Cowboy and the Senorita (1944), Rogers was teamed with Dale Evans, and, in 1947, 14 months after the death of Rogers's first wife, he and Evans were married. They starred together in a number of films and from 1951 to 1957 in their own television series. At the end of each series episode, they signed off with the song "Happy Trails," which Evans had written and which also became the title of their 1979 autobiography. Rogers and Evans starred in a musical variety show on television in 1962-63 and thereafter made guest appearances on TV specials, series, and talk shows. Rogers also made state fair and rodeo appearances, marketed clothes and toys, ran a restaurant chain, and continued to record. He was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988 and in 1991 released the album Tribute, which featured both old and new songs and included duets with current recording artists.

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