Elvis actors
Kurt Russell
Lucky Russell got to borrow Presley’s dazzling White Comet jumpsuit (named the Adonis suit) for the 1979 ABC television movie Elvis. Years later, an uncredited Russell voiced Presley’s short scene in Forrest Gump (1994), when a young Forrest learns those pelvis-shaking dance moves.
Michael Shannon
Based on an untold true story (and one of the most requested photographs in the National Archives), 2016’s Elvis & Nixon stars Shannon as Presley, who meets with Kevin Spacey’s President Nixon at the White House.
Jack White
In 2007’s Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, a spoof on music biopics, WhiteStripes musician White plays Elvis (alongside other celeb cameos, including PaulRudd, JackBlack, JustinLong and JasonSchwartzman as theBeatles).
David Keith
In 1988’s Heartbreak Hotel, a teenage boy and his rock ’n’ roll band plot to kidnap Presley, played by Keith, to cheer up the teen’s ailing mom.
Don Johnson
The 1981 TV movie Elvis and the Beauty Queen, about the rocker’s love affair with a pageant contestant during the final years of his life, features Johnson as Elvis.
Tyler Hilton
A young Elvis, played by Hilton, records in front of JohnnyCash at the famous Sun Studio in the 2005 film Walk the Line, starring JoaquinPhoenix and ReeseWitherspoon.
Harvey Keitel
In the quirky road trip drama Finding Graceland (1998), Keitel plays a wisdom-yielding hitchhiker claiming to be Elvis on a journey to Memphis.
Val Kilmer
In Quentin Tarantino’s True Romance (1993), Kilmer makes an appearance as an apparition of the jailhouse rocker.
Bruce Campbell
Now a resident in a nursing home, Elvis (Campbell) joins forces with a Black “John F. Kennedy” (OssieDavis) to combat an ancient evil in the 2002 comedy-horror flick Bubba Ho-Tep.
Austin Butler
AustinButler stars in the 2022 Elvis biopic about Presley’s rise to fame and complicated relationship with his manipulative manager Colonel Tom Parker.
Elvis in Hollywood
Top picks from his prolific onscreen career, which included more than 30 films and 23 movie soundtracks.
Jailhouse Rock (1957): A young felon becomes a rock star (with the help of his country-crooning cellmate).Loving You (1957): This semiautobiographical film follows a delivery boy turned country music artist reaching superstardom.King Creole (1958): Elvis is school dropout Danny Fisher, a talented musician performing in New Orleans nightclubs, trying to shake a life of crime.Blue Hawaii (1961): An Army vet goes home to Hawaii, where he tries his hand as a tour guide, much to the disappointment of his mother (AngelaLansbury).Viva Las Vegas (1964): The King (starring alongside love interest Ann-Margret) plays a race-car driver performing in Sin City to fund his new engine.
