Kurt Russell landed a part in the Elvis Presley movie, It Happened at the World's Fair (1963) when he was 10 years old. In 1960, Walt Disney himself signed Russell to a 10 year contract. Once his stint as a child actor ended, he spent the early 1970s playing minor league baseball. In 1979, he gave a classic performance as Elvis Presley in John Carpenter's ABC-TV movie. He followed with roles in a string of well-received films: Used Cars (1980), Escape from New York (1981), The Thing (1982) and Silkwood - www.imdb.com

Biography One of the most iconic action stars of all time, Kurt Russell is among the few to make the successful transition from child star to successful adult actor. Read Full Biography - www.moviefone.com

Kurt Russell is a blue-eyed, square-jawed American actor best known for playing action heroes in the movies Escape From New York (1981), The Thing (1982) and Big Trouble in Little China (1986). Russell grew up in Hollywood; his dad was Bing Russell, a character actor on TV and a former baseball player and coach. Kurt began acting before he was ten, and by the age of 12 was playing the title character in the TV series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963-64, with Charles Bronson). As a teenager Russell had - www.answers.com