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Leonard Franklin Slye
The King of the Cowboys
Acting
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Roy Rogers, born Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998), was an American singer and cowboy actor, as well as the namesake of the Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino, Trigger, and his German Shepherd dog, Bullet, were featured in more than 100 movies and The Roy Rogers Show. The show ran on radio for nine years before moving to television from 1951 through 1957. His productions usually featured a sidekick, often either Pat Brady, (who drove a Jeep called Nellybelle), Andy Devine, or the crotchety George Gabby Hayes. Rogerss nickname was King of the Cowboys. Evanss nickname was Queen of the West.Description above from the Wikipedia article Roy Rogers, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia