Guralnick, Peter Filmography

• Play in Full Screen A.K.A. Doc Pomus

  2012, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen The Scene That Stole Jailhouse Rock

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Kingdom: Elvis in Vegas

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen God Gave Rock & Roll to You

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Soul Deep: The Story of Black Popular Music

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Sam Cooke: Legend

  2003, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Howlin' Wolf Story

  2003, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen Classic Albums: Elvis Presley

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself, Elvis Presley biographer
• Play in Full Screen Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock'n'Roll

  2000, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Elvis: The Great Performances, Vol. 3 - From the Waist Up

  1997, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Deep Blues

  1992, role: miscellaneous crew

Famous quotes by Peter Guralnick:

"Everyone looked at him like he was their ... savior, ... everywhere he went he was an object of admiration and adoration -- and yet he couldn't muffle the growing discontent, the helplessness he felt at his inability to control not so much the world around him as his private world, the inner world that was revealed to no one but him."

"I didn't know Gate well, but I always appreciated him, most of all, his feisty, independent spirit and warm heart, ... Gate was the original contrarian, but there was always a well thought-out argument behind it. It wasn't just that Gate was unwilling to play the fool. He simply refused to live up to anyone else's definition or expectations of him. But I think this was part of his genius. From the start, Gate defined himself, both as a musician and as a man."

"The real story is that the fans are tied to Elvis by the same loyalty that he showed to them, ... He did show an extraordinary sense of identification with the fans. He had an almost mystical belief that all of his strength -- and his very legitimacy -- came from his fans."

"Even as a child he had a vision of success taking place in a world that he couldn't possibly imagine, except through the movies, ... That's what lends the story either a tragic resonance or pathos or whatever."

"I guess I thought of it as an American tragedy, ... It has all the elements -- the success is larger than life, the aspirations are larger than life, and the fall from grace is equally larger than life."

"It's like he gained a lot from his popularity, but he suffers a lot for it too,"

"I think Elvis was dismissed because of his popularity,"

"I thought a lot of people would dismiss the subject as trivial, ... and ... that regardless of what I achieved, the subject would be dismissed. I think I've been gratified more than anything. Whether people like the book or don't like the book, they treat the subject as worthy of discussion."

"I was trying to tell as honest and true a story as I could, ... Really, the challenge is to portray the world the person lives in, and in the first volume it was an expanding world. You can see in 'Careless Love' how constricted Elvis' world becomes."

"[The song, based on an old gospel song, was] the fusion of all the elements that till then had simply failed to coalesce, ... It was the uninhibited, altogether abandoned sound of the church; it was the keening, ecstatic voicings by which the world has come to know Ray Charles best."

Peter Guralnick