Kurt Vogel Russell was born in Springfield, Massachusetts
Russell has starred in the 1981 action film Escape from New York
and its 1996 sequel Escape from L.A., the horror film The Thing
(1982), Big Trouble in Little China (1986). He was nominated for
an Emmy Award for the television film Elvis (1979). In 1994, Kurt
Russell had a starring role in the military science fiction film
Stargate.
He began his film career at age eleven in an unaccredited role
in Elvis Presley‘s 1963 musical “It Happened at the World’s Fair”.
Kurt Russell performing "Blue Moon of Kentucky" as Elvis Presley in John Carpenter’s 1979 television biographical film, Elvis. Voiced by Ronnie
McDowell. It originally aired on ABC.