In order to get his SAG card, he had to take some small roles. One of these roles was an Elvis impersonator on “The Golden Girls.” But he wasn’t like all of the other impersonators he acted alongside. He wore his own clothes instead of the flashy rhinestone getups most of them wore. In a 1994 interview, he explained. “I wore my own clothes, because I was, like, the Sun Records Elvis. I was the hillbilly cat Elvis. I was the real Elvis; everyone else was Elvis after he sold out.”