Sam Shepard was 59 in The Notebook when he played the character 'Frank Calhoun'.
That was over 20 years ago in 2004.
In 2017 he died aged 73, starring in 74 films in his career, 33 of those after The Notebook was first released. If he were alive today he would be 80.
In The Notebook, I think Sam Shepard looks: