How tall is Roy Rogers

Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye; November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and television host. Following into the future work under his definite name, first as co-founder of the Sons of the Pioneers and then as an actor, the rebranded Rogers next became one of the most popular Western stars of his era. Known as the “King of the Cowboys”, he appeared in greater than 100 films and numerous radio and television episodes of The Roy Rogers Show. In many of his films and television episodes, he appeared later his wife, Dale Evans; his Golden Palomino, Trigger; and his German Shepherd, Bullet. His operate was broadcast upon radio for nine years and then upon television from 1951 through 1957. His before roles were uncredited parts in films by fellow cowboy singing star Gene Autry and his productions usually featured a sidekick, often Pat Brady, Andy Devine, George “Gabby” Hayes, or Smiley Burnette. In his vanguard years, he lent his pronounce to the franchise chain of Roy Rogers Restaurants.

Rogers was born Leonard Franklin Slye, the son of Mattie (née Womack) and Andrew “Andy” Slye in Cincinnati, Ohio. The family lived in a tenement on 2nd Street, where Riverfront Stadium was complex constructed. (Rogers vanguard joked that he was born at second base.) Len had three sisters: Kathleen, Mary, and Cleda. Dissatisfied following his job and city life, Andy and his brother Will built a 12-by-50-foot (3.7 m × 15.2 m) houseboat from salvage lumber, and in July 1912 the Slye relatives traveled by the side of the Ohio River towards Portsmouth. Desiring a more stable existence in Portsmouth, they purchased land upon which they planned to construct a house, but otherwise the Great Flood of 1913 enabled them to assume the houseboat onto their property and continue living in it upon dry land.

In 1919, the Slye relatives purchased a farm in Duck Run, near Lucasville, Ohio, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Portsmouth, and built a six-room house. Andy soon realized that the farm alone would not provide acceptable income for his family, so he took a job at a Portsmouth shoe factory, living in Portsmouth during the week and returning house on weekends, bearing gifts in imitation of paydays. A notable gift was a horse upon which teen Len university the basics of horsemanship. Living upon the farm taking into consideration no radio, the relatives made their own entertainment. On Saturday nights, they often invited neighbors on peak of for square dances, during which Len would sing, play mandolin, and call the square dances. He also scholarly to yodel during this time, and later his mother they would use vary yodels to communicate in imitation of each other across distances upon the farm.

Len attended high school in McDermott, Ohio, but after he completed his second year there, his relations returned to Cincinnati, where his daddy worked at another shoe factory. Realizing that his family needed his financial help, Len quit speculative and allied his dad at the factory. He tried to attend night school, but after physical ridiculed for falling deadened in class, he quit researcher and never returned.

By 1929, after his older sister Mary and her husband had moved to Lawndale, California, Len and his father quit their factory jobs, packed going on their 1923 Dodge, and drove the relations to California to visit Mary. They stayed for four months in the past returning to Ohio. Soon after returning, Len had the opportunity to travel anew to California bearing in mind Mary’s father-in-law, and the descend of the intimates followed in the spring of 1930. The Slye family rented a small house near Mary, and Len and his father found employment driving gravel trucks for a highway construction project.