

His output appeared to be given a ribbing in the Coen Brothers movie The Ballad of Buster Scruggs from 2018. Rogers carried a tune, in addition to making the world a better place. He didn’t just make Westerns, but will be forever linked to those adventures set during a simpler time of gunslinging and monochrome morality. He was a one-man franchise, in an era before such things really existed.

He wasn’t just a clean living dude in a hat. If anyone sums up the old-school movie cowboy, it’s Roy Rogers. (Photo Credit: Archive Photos/Getty Images) Singer and actor Roy Rogers pictured astride his palomino horse, Trigger, USA, circa 1945.
