John Cusack, as author Edgar Allan Poe, looks a little like a Hollywood gunslinger as he walks down a muddy Baltimore street in a scene from the 2012 film The Raven. The movie explored Poe's life and mysterious and chaotic death with a fictional plot about Poe pursuing a serial killer before dying in a weirdo ending. John Cusack was born in 1966, so he turned 46 the year The Raven was released.