From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Marcus Carl Franklin born February 24 1993 is an American actor He is best known for portraying an incarnation of Bob Dylan who calls himself Woody Guthrie in the Bob Dylan biopic Im Not There written and directed by Todd Haynes Franklin is seen as a young hobo hitching rides on freight trains while clutching a guitar case bearing the inscription This Machine Kills Fascists this inscription adorned the guitar of Woody Guthrie In the film Franklin performs a rendition of Dylans song When the Ship Comes In His performance is also on the soundtrack album of Im Not There Franklin also was in Lackawanna Blues on HBO which aired in 2005 He acted in the offBroadway and Broadway productions of Caroline or Change