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Real name

Leonard Franklin Slye

  

Date of birth (location)

5 November 1912

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Date of death (details)

6 July 1998

Apple Valley, California, USA. (congestive heart failure) 

 

Roy moved to California in 1930, aged 18. He played in music groups named the Hollywood Hillbillies, Rocky Mountaineers, Texas Outlaws, and his own group, the International Cowboys. In 1934 he formed a group with Bob Nolan and Tim Spencer the 'Sons of the Pioneers'. While in that group he was known as Leonard Slye, then Dick Weston, and finally Roy Rogers. Their songs included "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds". They appeared in the 1936 movie, Rhythm on the Range (1936), starring Bing Crosby and Martha Raye. In 1937 he went solo, and he made his first starring film in 1938, Under Western Stars (1938). He made almost 100 films. "Roy Rogers Show, The" (1951) ran on CBS television from October 1951 through September 1964.

Roy Rogers, Actor and Singer, Born November 5, 1912; died July 6, 1998.