Actors Who Have Played Elvis
by big-gun | created - 23 Apr 2017 | updated - 23 Apr 2017 | PublicReal and fictitious versions of the King.
1. Jason Biggs
Actor | American Pie
Jason Matthew Biggs was born on May 12, 1978, in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, to Angela (Zocco), a nurse, and Gary Biggs, a shipping company manager. Jason has two sisters, Heather, a tax specialist born in 1971, and Chiara, born in 1980. He was raised Catholic, and is of English and mostly Italian ...
Picasso at the Lapin Agile.
2. Bruce Campbell
Actor | Bubba Ho-Tep
In 1979 with his Detroit friends, Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, Bruce Campbell raised $350,000 for a low-budget film, The Evil Dead (1981), in which he starred and co-executive produced. Completed piecemeal over four years, the film first gained notoriety in England where it became the best-selling ...
Bubba Ho-Tep.
3. Peter Dobson
Actor | Forrest Gump
Born in Red Bank, New Jersey, Peter Dobson's illustrious acting career began at the Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Lee Strasberg institute in New York City. Dobson went on to join the summer stock Royal Shakespeare Company in Monterey CA and after found his way to Los Angeles to begin studying ...
Forrest Gump. Protecting the King.
5. Tyler Hilton
Actor | One Tree Hill
Tyler Hilton is both an actor and an accomplished singer/songwriter. He began his professional career in music in 2000. In 2004, Hilton released his first major-label album, The Tracks of Tyler Hilton, while making his acting debut as the musically talented, but arrogant 'Chris Keller' on the hit ...
Walk the Line.
6. Paul Hipp
Actor | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Paul Hipp grew up in the Philadelphia area. He moved to New York at 17 to study acting with William Hickey and Mira Rostova. He supported himself by playing guitar and busking. He eventually landed gigs playing in the then legendary (now almost all shuttered) clubs of Greenwich Village and ...
Liberace: Behind the Music.
7. Don Johnson
Actor | Miami Vice
Best known for his starring role as Det. Sonny Crockett on the hugely successful TV series Miami Vice (1984), Don Johnson is one of the stars who really defined the 1980s. As James "Sonny" Crockett he went toe-to-toe with drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, assassins, illegal arms-dealers and crooked...
Elvis and the Beauty Queen.
8. Harvey Keitel
Actor | Reservoir Dogs
American actor and producer Harvey Keitel was born on May 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York City, to Miriam (Klein) and Harry Keitel. An Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominee, he has appeared in films such as Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets (1973) and Taxi Driver (1976), Ridley Scott's The Duellists (...
Finding Graceland.
9. David Keith
Actor | An Officer and a Gentleman
David Lemuel Keith was born on May 8, 1954 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Lemuel Grady Keith Jr. and Hilda Earle. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Arts in Speech and Theater. Keith had a supporting role in The Rose (1979) starring Bette Midler, had a supporting ...
Heartbreak Hotel.
10. Gil McKinney
Actor | Once Upon a Time
Gil McKinney was born on February 5, 1979 in Houston, Texas, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Once Upon a Time (2011), Supernatural (2005) and Friday Night Lights (2006).
Elvis Has Left the Building.
11. Dale Midkiff
Actor | Pet Sematary
Dale Midkiff attended Edgewood high school and Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland, before moving to New York to work as a waiter while pursuing his acting career. His breakthrough role was when he landed the role of Elvis in the made-for-TV movie Elvis and Me (1988). He later starred in ...
Elvis and Me.
12. Chunky Pandey
Actor | Housefull 2
Chunky Pandey was born in Bombay, India on September 26, 1962 in a non-film household.
Chunky's real name is Suyash Sharad Pandey, but is also known as Chandrakant Pandey. He shot into fame with a secondary role in 'Tezaab' which had Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit in the lead roles. He continued to ...
Hello Darling.
13. Rick Peters
Director | My Fault
Rick was born in a suburb of Detroit in June of 1966. The family lived there until August 1968, when they moved to England (his dad accepted a transfer with one of the "Big 3" Auto manufacturers). They lived there until 1974, then returned to Michigan. They lived in Michigan until another transfer ...
Elvis Meets Nixon.
14. Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Actor | Den 12. mann
Jonathan Rhys Meyers was born Jonathan Michael Meyers on July 27, 1977, in Dublin, Ireland, to Mary Geraldine (Meyers) and John O'Keeffe, a musician. He and his family moved to County Cork, Ireland, when the actor was nearly a year old, and then, at the age of 3, his father left the family, leaving...
Elvis: The Early Years.
15. Kurt Russell
Actor | Escape from New York
Kurt Vogel Russell was born on March 17, 1951 in Springfield, Massachusetts and raised in Thousand Oaks, California to Louise Julia Russell (née Crone), a dancer & Bing Russell, an actor. He is of English, German, Scottish and Irish descent. His first roles were as a child on television series, ...
Elvis.
16. Rob Youngblood
Actor | Space Precinct
Rob Youngblood was born on November 13, 1969 in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. He is an actor, known for Space Precinct (1994), L.A. Firefighters (1996) and Murder One (1995). He was previously married to Jenee Conway.
Elvis and the Colonel: The Untold Story.
17. Frank Stallone
Soundtrack | Rambo: First Blood Part II
Grammy and Golden Globe nominated artist Frank Stallone is one of the most versatile actors, singers and musicians in the business. His explosive voice and his range from comedy to drama and rock to blues to big band, leaves audiences entertained and captivated.
Frank has garnered three Platinum ...
Angels With Angles.
18. Michael St. Gerard
Actor | Hairspray
This moody, baby-faced hunk had the slick, sullen, magnetic good looks and rebel attitude of an Elvis Presley, not to mention a startling resemblance. Sure enough, the timing would prove right for Michael St. Gerard, making a killer impression on teenage girls first on film, then TV -- as greaser ...
Elvis (1990 Mini-Series). Great Balls of Fire. Heart of Dixie.
19. George Thomas
Actor | Memphis Rising: Elvis Returns
George Thomas is known for Memphis Rising: Elvis Returns (2011), Las Vegas (2003) and Calculating Euphoria (2022).
Memphis Rising, Elvis Returns.
20. Jeff Yagher
Actor | My Fellow Americans
Jeff Yagher was born on January 18, 1961 in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. He is an actor, known for My Fellow Americans (1996), Cradle 2 the Grave (2003) and Æon Flux (2005). He has been married to Megan Gallagher since 2001. They have two children. He was previously married to Karen.
The Twilight Zone: The Once and Future King.
21. Jack White
Soundtrack | Quantum of Solace
Jack played guitar and sang in the band The White Stripes. They released six albums: their self-titled debut -- "The White Stripes", "De Stijl", "White Blood Cells", "Elephant", "Get Behind Me Satan", and "Icky Thump", before breaking up in 2011.
White also sings and plays guitar in the band The ...
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.
22. Michael Shannon
Actor | Take Shelter
Michael Corbett Shannon was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, the son of Geraldine Hine, a lawyer, and Donald Sutherlin Shannon, an accounting professor at DePaul University. His grandfather was entomologist Raymond Corbett Shannon.
Shannon began his professional stage career in Chicago. His ...
Elvis & Nixon.
23. Drake Milligan
Actor | Nobody
Drake Milligan is known for Nobody (2014), Sun Records (2017) and The Reklaws ft. Drake Milligan: Honky Tonkin' About (2023).
Sun Records.
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