Examples include Jackie Coogan, Lee Majors, Vincent Price, and Kurt Russell, who made his film debut in an Elvis Presley movie and later portrayed Presley himself in a television movie.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters also marks Kurt Russell’s return to TV for the first time since he played Elvis Presley in the 1979 TV movie Elvis, for which he earned an Emmy nomination.

with Elvis played by Austin Butler, who does the alluring eyes, modest snarl, and loose-limbed jitterbug moves, is cartoonish and sentimental, unlike the good 1980 Kurt Russell–John Carpenter TV ...

Four years after Presley's death, Don Johnson, who was already a huge star due to "Miami Vice," played Presley in this made-for-TV movie ... for-TV biopic with Kurt Russell giving an impressive ...