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Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan fortunately does not have to rely on his movie career to uphold his reputation as the single most influential rock musician of the 1960s. His best-known movie appearances include the concert film The Last Waltz and documentaries like Don't Look Back; but Dylan also appeared in other films, making his dramatic debut as a cowpoke named Alias in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), in which he sings "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." Dylan went back to singing and composing until 1977's Renaldo and Clara, a four-hour-long largely improvised -- and universally panned -- production which Dylan himself wrote, directed, and starred in. It would be ten years before Dylan would once more flex his acting muscles in the long-on-the-shelf Hearts of Fire (1987), playing the tailor-made role of a retired rock legend. And though his roles leading into the new millennium consisted mainly of appearances in which he was billed as "Himself," Dylan's song "Things Have Changed" for the film The Wonder Boys (2000) brought the popular singer/songwriter his first Oscar for Best Music (Song).

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Bob Dylan
May 24, 1941 (age 83)
Duluth, Minnesota, USA

Bio

Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan fortunately does not have to rely on his movie career to uphold his reputation as the single most influential rock musician of the 1960s. His best-known movie appearances include the concert film The Last Waltz and documentaries like Don't Look Back; but Dylan also appeared in other films, making his dramatic debut as a cowpoke named Alias in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973), in which he sings "Knockin' on Heaven's Door." Dylan went back to singing and composing until 1977's Renaldo and Clara, a four-hour-long largely improvised -- and universally panned -- production which Dylan himself wrote, directed, and starred in. It would be ten years before Dylan would once more flex his acting muscles in the long-on-the-shelf Hearts of Fire (1987), playing the tailor-made role of a retired rock legend. And though his roles leading into the new millennium consisted mainly of appearances in which he was billed as "Himself," Dylan's song "Things Have Changed" for the film The Wonder Boys (2000) brought the popular singer/songwriter his first Oscar for Best Music (Song).

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Runnin' Down a Dream: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers poster art
Live Aid poster art
The Other Side of the Mirror poster art
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival poster art
The Concert for Bangladesh poster art
Born in Chicago poster art
The Last Waltz poster art
Bob Dylan: Busy Being Born poster art
Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back poster art
I Am Not Your Negro poster art
Earl Scruggs: The Bluegrass Legend - Family & Friends poster art
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune poster art
The People Speak poster art
Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind poster art
Nothing Compares poster art
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song poster art
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan poster art
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg poster art
A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly poster art
Karen Dalton: In My Own Time poster art

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