Before being fired, West and some of Presley's other bodyguards had received criticism for what the reference book Elvis: His Life from A to Z describes as "heavyhanded tactics" involving "too ...

West and his co-authors, fellow “Memphis Mafia” members and Elvis bodyguards Sonny West (a cousin, who died March 24) and David Hebler, assisted by Steve Dunleavy, a journalist, said the book ...

Actor and songwriter Robert Gene “Red” West, a longtime confidant of Elvis Presley, has died in Memphis. Danita Allen of Memorial Park Funeral Home said West died Tuesday. He was 81. Hi… ...

Red and Sonny West, friends of Elvis who spoke out about the singer's drug problems, both died this year. As It Happen spoke to Sonny about Elvis' death back in 1977.

Actor and songwriter Robert Gene “Red” West, a longtime confidant of Elvis Presley, has died in Memphis. Danita Allen of Memorial Park Funeral Home said West died Tuesday. He was 81.

Actor and songwriter Robert Gene “Red” West, a longtime confidant of Elvis Presley, has died in Memphis. Danita Allen of Memorial Park Funeral Home said West died Tuesday. He was 81.

Actor and songwriter Robert Gene “Red” West, a longtime confidant of Elvis Presley, has died in Memphis. Danita Allen of Memorial Park Funeral Home said West died Tuesday. He was 81.

Red West, Actor, Songwriter and Longtime Elvis Presley Confidant, Dies at 81. The Memphis native appeared in 18 of the singer's features as well as in 'Road House,' 'Walking Tall' and TV's 'Black ...

Red West, the longtime confidante and bodyguard of Elvis Presley who became a successful film and television actor after the singer's death, died. ... Tenn., the athletic Robert Gene "Red" West ...

Robert Gene "Red" West, a friend and confidant of Elvis Presley's since high school, songwriter and actor, died Tuesday, July 18, 2017, according to his family. Credit: FilmMagic / Derek Bauer By ...

As Elvis' friend, driver and bodyguard, West was among Presley's closest associates during the singer's meteoric rise, Army tour of duty, Hollywood stardom, late 1960s so-called comeback and 1970s ...

Red West, the longtime and sometimes critical confidante and bodyguard of Elvis Presley who became a successful film and television actor after the singer's death, died Tuesday night after ...