The Elvis Presley Filmography

Elvis Presley Filmography

After Elvis Presley became a big name in the music industry, he started a career as a movie actor. His first movie was Love Me Tender, a Musical Western Film.

Most of his movies were musical comedies (Like Jailhouse Rock and King Creole). He also made 2 regular movies, both of them westerns: Charro and Flamming Star, although he singed at least once in each movie. In the mid sixties, Elvis Presley was fully dedicated to the movies business, being the soundtracks for his films his only music material releases. Most critics agree that the quality of Elvis Presleys movies varied. After the 1969 movie :"Change of Habit", Elvis Presley went back to music recording and concert touring.

Year	Movie	Character	Did you Know?
1956	Love me tender	Clint Reno	First Elvis Presley Movie. The only time where Elvis was not the best payed actor on the film.
1957	Loving you	Jimmy Tompkins (Deke Rivers)	The first time Elvis appeared in a color movie. His parents played a small part
	Jailhouse Rock	Vince Everett	Judy Tyler , his co-star in this movie, died in a car crash 3 days after they ended the movie.
1958	King Creole	Danny Fisher	The last time Elvis Presley appeared in a black and white movie. Also of his movies, the one he liked the most.
1960	G.I. Blues	Tulsa McLean	This movie soundtrack album spent more than two years  on the Billboardmusic charts!
	Flaming Star	Pacer Burton	The famous Andy Warhol piece came from a scene in this movie.
1961	Wild in the country	Glenn Tyler	One of the actresses broke her hand while slapping Elvis in one of the scenes.
	Blue Hawaii	Chad Gates	The soundtrack of this movie was Elvis Presleys most successful movie album.
1962	Follow That Dream	Toby Kwimper
	Kid Galahad	Walter Gulick/Dustin Holmes/Kid Galahad	For this movie Elvis was trained to fight by the professional boxing coach Mushy Callahan.
	Girls! Girls! Girls!	Ross Carpenter	His only movie to be nominated for a golden globe
1963	It Happened at the World's Fair	Mike Edwards	Kurt Russell uncredit movie debut. He Kick Elvis Presley in the chin
	Fun in Acapulco	Mike Windgren	the actress Teri Garr makes her uncredit screen debut
1964	Kissin' Cousins	Josh Morgan / Jodie Tatum	Elvis Presley played two parts in this movie
	Viva Las Vegas	Lucky Jackson	Elvis most successful movie. It returned more than 5 million dollars of profit to MGM
	Roustabout	Charlie Rogers	Elvis Presley was his own stuntman
1965	Girl Happy	Rusty Wells
	Tickle me	Lonnie Beale / Panhandle Kid	The only Time Elvis Presley did not record the movie soundtrack album
	Harum Scarum	Johnny Tyronne	Elvis was paid a million dollar to act in this movie
1966	Frankie and Johnny	Johnny
	Paradise, Hawaiian Style	Rick Richards	Donna Butterworth's last picture.
	Spinout	Mike McCoy	President Lyndon B. Johnson  met Elvis  Presley at the movie set.
1967	Easy Come, Easy Go	Lt. (j.g.) Ted Jackson	USS Gallant, an ocean-going minesweeper appears on this movie
	Double Trouble	Guy Lambert	Annette Days only movie
	Clambake	Scott Heyward / 'Tom Wilson'	The Red Car is a Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Racer.
1968	Stay Away, Joe	Joe Lightcloud
	Speedway	Steve Grayson	Nancy Sinatra co-starred
	Live a Little, Love a Little	Greg Nolan	Albert, the Great Dane in the movie, was played by Presley's own dog, Brutus. Presley's father is a model for one of the photo-shoots in the film.
1969	Charro!	Jess Wade	The only Time Elvis Presley sported a beard in the big screen
	The Trouble with Girls	Walter Hale
	Change of Habit	Dr. John Carpenter	Elvis Presley appears for the only time in a church
1970	Elvis: That's the Way It Is	As himself	3rd Concert season in las Vegas
1972	Elvis On Tour	As himself	Concert film; 1973 Golden Globe winner for Best Documentary film (it tied with Walls of Fire (1971)).
2002	New Gladiators		Karate documentary filmed in 1973-74;