---
name: "Tom Parker"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/tom-parker-1351874"
fi1m_id: "tom-parker-1351874"
imdb_id: "nm0662158"
tmdb_id: 1351874
wikidata_id: "Q533864"
roles: []
born: "26 June 1909"
died: "21 January 1997"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T04:05:34.037709+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Tom Parker

## Identity

Tom Parker

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tom-parker-1351874
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** tom-parker-1351874
- **IMDb ID:** nm0662158
- **TMDB ID:** 1351874
- **Wikidata ID:** Q533864
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Tom_Parker, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q533864, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662158/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1351874

Actor. Born 26 June 1909 in Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. Died 21 January 1997.

## Details

- **Born:** 26 June 1909, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
- **Died:** 21 January 1997
- **Also known as:** "Colonel" Tom Parker, Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk, The Colonel
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Tom_Parker, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q533864, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662158/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1351874

## Streaming the US now

- **Paramount+:** [*EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert*](https://film.one/film/epic-elvis-presley-in-concert.md) (81)

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## Biography

Tom Parker, born Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk, was a Dutch-born musical entrepreneur best known as the manager of Elvis Presley. He immigrated to the United States in the 1920s, changed his name, and built a career in music promotion from the late 1930s, working with artists including Gene Austin, Eddy Arnold and Hank Snow.

Parker became Presley's sole manager in 1956 and remained in that role until Presley's death in 1977. He received an honorary rank of colonel in the Louisiana State Militia. He appears in archive footage in numerous documentaries about Presley, including *EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert* (2026), *Elvis: That's the Way It Is* (1970) and *Elvis Presley: The Searcher* (2018).

*Sources: nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert* (2026), Fi1m 81, as Self (archive footage) — [page](https://film.one/film/epic-elvis-presley-in-concert.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Elvis: The Ultimate Live Collection* (2002), Writer
- *This Is Elvis* (1981), Technical Advisor
- *Elvis - Aloha from Hawaii* (1973), Production Coordinator
- *Elvis on Tour* (1972), Technical Advisor
- *Elvis: That's the Way It Is* (1970), Technical Advisor
- *Clambake* (1967), Technical Advisor
- *Easy Come, Easy Go* (1967), Technical Advisor
- *Double Trouble* (1967), Technical Advisor
- *Spinout* (1966), Technical Advisor
- *Paradise, Hawaiian Style* (1966), Technical Advisor
- *Harum Scarum* (1965), Technical Advisor
- *Tickle Me* (1965), Technical Advisor
- *Girl Happy* (1965), Technical Advisor
- *Roustabout* (1964), Technical Advisor
- *Kissin' Cousins* (1964), Technical Advisor
- *Fun in Acapulco* (1963), Technical Advisor
- *It Happened at the World's Fair* (1963), Technical Advisor
- *Kid Galahad* (1962), Technical Advisor
- *Girls! Girls! Girls!* (1962), Technical Advisor
- *Follow That Dream* (1962), Technical Advisor
- *Blue Hawaii* (1961), Technical Advisor
- *Flaming Star* (1960), Technical Advisor
- *G.I. Blues* (1960), Technical Advisor
- *King Creole* (1958), Technical Advisor
- *Loving You* (1957), Technical Advisor
- *Jailhouse Rock* (1957), Technical Advisor
- *Love Me Tender* (1956), Technical Advisor

## Gallery

- ![Tom Parker](https://film.one/media/person/3397020/gallery-8f440da77cfc.jpg) Tom Parker — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Colonel_Tom_Parker_1969_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker, 1969](https://film.one/media/person/3397020/gallery-96b052950987.jpg) Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker, 1969 — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Elvis_Presley_and_Colonel_Tom_Parker_1969.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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