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He has spent his entire life in the spotlight because of his famous parents. He is an accomplished performer with both “ The Sons of the Pioneers ” as well as “Roy Rogers Jr and the High Riders” in venues throughout the U.S. and Canada, including his performances at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
He is an actor, known for Arizona Bushwhackers (1968), The Fall Guy (1981) and The Roy Rogers Show (1951). He has been married to Linda Lou Yoder since November 18, 1967. Roy "Dusty" Rogers is the official spokesman for the Roy Rogers family.
Dusty also serves as the Trustee of the Roy and Dale Evans Rogers Children’s Trust, and shares continued management of the Roy Rogers Family Entertainment Corporation with award winning writer, director, producer, Jeff Kramer. The corporation was originally formed by Roy, Dale, Dusty and Jeff.
His practice consists of residential and commercial real estate, estate planning and probate, commercial and corporate transactions. He is licensed in South Carolina. Roger is a board member for both Sea Haven Youth Home and the Hootie and the Blowfish Foundation.
Known as the "King of the Cowboys", he appeared in over 100 films and numerous radio and television episodes of The Roy Rogers Show.
Rogers is referenced in numerous films, including Die Hard (1988) in which the Bruce Willis character John McClane used the pseudonym "Roy" and remarks, "I was always kinda partial to Roy Rogers actually.".
From his first film appearance in 1935, Len worked steadily in Western films, including a large supporting role as a singing cowboy while still billed as Leonard Slye in a Gene Autry movie. In 1938, Autry demanded more money for his work, and there was a competition for a new singing cowboy. Many singers sought the job, including Willie Phelps of the Phelps brothers, who appeared in early Western movies. Len ended up winning the contest and was given the stage name Roy Rogers by Republic Pictures, suggesting the western-sounding name Roy and combining it with the surname of the popular western comic entertainer Will Rogers. He was assigned the leading role in Under Western Stars. He became a matinee idol, a competitor with Autry as the nation's favorite singing cowboy. In addition to his own movies, he played a supporting role in the John Wayne classic Dark Command (1940), which also featured one of his future sidekicks, George "Gabby" Hayes. He became a major box-office attraction. Unlike other stars, the vast majority of his leading roles allowed him to play a character with his own name, in the manner of Autry.
Rogers died of congestive heart failure on July 6, 1998, in Apple Valley, California. He was buried at Sunset Hills Memorial Park in Apple Valley, as was his wife Dale Evans three years later.
Rogers' cultural influence is reflected in numerous songs, including "If I Had a Boat" by Lyle Lovett, "Roy Rogers" by Elton John on his 1973 album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and "Should've Been a Cowboy" by Toby Keith.
Rogers's boyhood home at Duck Run, near Lucasville, Ohio. In 1919, the Slye family purchased a farm in Duck Run, near Lucasville, Ohio, about 12 miles (19 km) north of Portsmouth, and built a six-room house.
In 1983 he was awarded the Golden Boot Award, and in 1996 he received the Golden Boot Founder's Award.
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Roy Jr or "Dusty" as he's more commonly known, is the only biological son of Roy Rogers. His mother Grace passed away due to complications from childbirth shortly after he was born. Dusty appeared on his parents' NBC show The Roy Rogers Show as a child and even grew up to become his father's manager and trustee of the Roy and Dale Evans Rogers Children's Trust. Dusty also performed lead vocals for the Sons of the Pioneers and his own personal band he started in the early '80s -- Roy Rogers Jr and the High Riders. For a while, he operated The Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum and Happy Trails Theatre in Branson, Missouri, but it has since closed down. Note the name of the theatre was in honor of Dale and Roy's beloved theme song, "Happy Trails to You."
Here's a closer look at all of Roy Rogers' children. 1. Cheryl Rogers. cherylrogers.com. Rogers married his second wife Grace Arline Wilkins in 1936 after meeting in Roswell, New Mexico. The couple adopted daughter Cheryl in 1941 from Hope Cottage in Texas.
Across his marriage with second wife Grace Arline Wilkins and Dale Evans, Rogers had a total of 9 children. Some of them followed in their parents' footsteps and some preferred life behind the scenes after growing up in Hollywood.
Deborah Lee Rogers was adopted by Roy and Dale after becoming an orphan during the Korean War. Sadly, she passed away when she was just 12 years old in a bus accident in Los Angeles with other children from her church.
Dodie Rogers. Dodie was the youngest of all of Roy and Dale's children. Dodie is of Native American descent and was adopted when she was just 7 months old. She grew up to marry a NASA employee, Jon Patterson, and they had a daughter named Kristin who now has children of her own. 6.
Now married to her husband Larry, Cheryl Rogers-Barnett is on the Advisory Board of the Western Music Association and is an active participant in the child abuse charity Child Help USA (of which she was a charter member). She's even a published author.
Tom Fox was the biological son of Dale and her first husband. He was raised by Roy and Dale. Tom, who passed away in 2012, was a school teacher and music minister.