8 Actors Who Played Elvis Over the Years
7 Actors Who Played Elvis Before Austin Butler
When Austin Butler shimmies his way onto the screen in Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis," he'll be joining an exclusive club of actors who have played the "King of Rock and Roll" over the past several decades. Elvis Presley's life, his meteoric rise to fame in the 1950s, and his career spanning all the way to the late '70s, have inspired dozens of fictional portrayals over the years, from fully-fledged biographies to silly comedy cameos and everything in between. While many of these depictions of Elvis have been small projects, obscure films, or long-forgotten made-for-TV movies, others have stuck around in our collective memory for much longer.
We've rounded up some of the most memorable portrayals of Elvis so far. Take a look through the gallery ahead and see how many of these versions of "the King" you recognise.
Austin Butler as Elvis in "Elvis" (2022)
Drake Milligan as Elvis in "Sun Records" (2017)
Michael Shannon as Elvis in "Elvis & Nixon" (2016)
Jack White as Elvis in "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" (2007)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Elvis in "Elvis: The Early Years" (2005)
Tyler Hilton as Elvis in "Walk the Line" (2005)
Michael St. Gerard as Elvis in "Elvis" (1990)
David Scott as Elvis in "This Is Elvis" (1981)
