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An American singer and actor who appeared during the Great Depression in the early thirties and entered the field of acting and singing. He soon starred in American Western films. He grew up on his family's farm near Lucasville and learned to ride horses, sing, and play the mandolin. He joined high school, and the following year, the family returned to Cincinnati, where Roy was born, and his father got a job at a shoe factory.
Due to the family's need for his financial help, he left school and joined his father at the factory. He joined the local Los Angeles radio co-founded a singing group called the Sons of Pioneers band. In 1934, the band became very popular outside the scope of Los Angeles through short radio segments.
He starred in the short film Slightly Static (1935) and the feature film The Old Homestead (1935). Within three years, he presented with his band more than ten films as a singer and guitarist and began to work steadily in American Western films. He joined Republic Pictures and was given the new name, Roy Rogers.
He began his television career in the early fifties, presenting The Roy Rogers Show in 1951 with his wife Dale Evans, and the program continued until 1957. He presented 102 episodes. He retired from the screen in 1984 and continued to perform and sing until 1991. He died of heart failure in 1998, and his wife Evans died three years later.
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