
John Savage
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 25, 1949 (age 77)
- Birthplace
- Old Bethpage, New York, USA
Biography
John Savage (born John Youngs; August 25, 1949) is an American film actor, producer, production manager, and composer. Savage has appeared in more than 200 feature films, short films, recurring roles in television series and guest appearances in episodes of television series. One of Savage's first notable roles is as Claude Bukowski in the 1979 film Hair. His first major film role was as Steven Pushkov in the multiple Oscar-winning 1978 film The Deer Hunter. He also had a lead role in the 1979 film The Onion Field. In the late 1970s, he performed in the Broadway production of David Mamet's play American Buffalo. In 1991, he starred in Italian director Lucio Fulci's final film Door to Silence. He then had a brief role in the 1998 war film The Thin Red Line, portrayed Captain Ransom in the two part episode Equinox of the television series Star Trek: Voyager in 1999, and appeared in the recurring role of Donald Lydecker in the first and second seasons of the 2000 television series Dark Angel. Savage starred in the 2015 horror film Tales of Halloween, the 2017 film In Dubious Battle, and on the 2017 continuation of the television show Twin Peaks. In 2018, he appeared on the television show Goliath. In 2018, Savage lent his voice to a monologue on the title track of the album This Town by Steve Smith of Dirty Vegas. In 2019, Savage played the role of The Narrator in upcoming fantasy crime drama Karma from award-winning filmmaker Bizhan Tong, having collaborated with him earlier that year.
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Filmography
Spychosis
Movie · as Jim Patterson

Melodies in the Forest
Movie · as Mario

Judas' Gospel
Movie · as Joseph

Death 4 Dinner
Movie · as Robert Rutherford

The Goat
Movie · as Julian Brown

Beyond the Rush
Movie · as Edward Clayborn

Showdown at the Grand
Movie · as Lucky

The Right to Bear Arms
Movie · as Brutal Magnus

A Cloud So High
Movie · as Gene 'Sackler' Sarling

Eye for Eye
Movie · as Brad Braddock

The Audition
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Michael Cimino, God Bless America
Movie · as Self

Bosch: Legacy
TV · as Allie Lewis · 1 ep

Insight
Movie · as Frank

The Last Full Measure
Movie · as Kepper, Chauncy Kepper

Followed
Movie · as Wallace Fleischer

The Man with the Camera
Movie · as Epifano
The Tribe Remembers
Movie · as Self

A Medicine for the Mind
Movie · as Dr. E. Brown

Spinning Dry
Movie · as Frank Manghetti

Ovid and the Art of Love
Movie · as Augustus

American Exit
Movie · as Gerald

Hold On
Movie · as Dr. Siedhoff

Gates of Darkness
Movie · as Joseph

Six Children and One Grandfather
Movie · as David McDoll

The Islands
Movie · as Henry Thornton

Down's Revenge
Movie · as Dr Sorkin

Heavenly Deposit
Movie · as Donald

Torch
Movie · as August Lewin

Easy Way Out
Movie

Empire of the Sharks
Movie · as Ian Fien

Sotto il Segno della Vittoria
Movie

Mission Possible
Movie · as Captain Ted Napoleon

Betrayed
Movie · as Mayor Alderman

40 and Single
TV · as Stewart Temple · 6 eps

Nephilim
Movie · as Father Samuel

Fake News
Movie · as President Wayne Walker

Three Seconds
Movie · as тренер сборной США Генри Айба

Teen Star Academy
Movie

Vampire Wars
Movie · as Stokes

The Neighborhood
Movie · as Vito Bello

The Return
Movie · as Čovek u crnom odelu

Spreading Darkness
Movie · as Brett

SEAL Team
TV · as Emmet Quinn · 3 eps

The Black Dove
Movie · as Jake Williams

Last Call at Murray's
Movie · as Bennett

Texas Heart
Movie · as Carl

American Romance
Movie · as Emery Reed

In Dubious Battle
Movie · as Dan

Mata Hari
Movie · as Edouard Clunet

Everglades
Movie

The World Champions
TV · as Wiliam Jones · 12 eps

Goliath
TV · as Mickey · 1 ep

We Will Be the World Champions
Movie · as William Jones

Caffeinated
Movie · as Himself

Tales of Halloween
Movie · as Capt. J.G. Zimmerman

Sensory Perception
Movie · as President of United Earth

Bullet
Movie · as Governor Johnson

Bermuda Tentacles
Movie · as President Desteno

The Hooping Life
Movie · as Himself

Demon Legacy
Movie · as The Codger

The Big Fat Stone
Movie · as Robert Tanninger

Fort Bliss
Movie · as Mike Swann

Open Road
Movie · as Carl

Awakened
Movie · as Jack Winston

A Sierra Nevada Gunfight
Movie · as Father Bill

Defending Santa
Movie · as Judge Willis

Alien Rising
Movie · as Manning

Real Gangsters
Movie · as Ted Roberts

A Star for Rose
Movie · as Mort

7E
Movie · as Paul

Art of Submission
Movie · as Harbin Rask

Sweetwater
Movie · as Calvin Kabral

Summer Song
Movie · as Jim

Sins
Movie · as Father Karl

The Orphan Killer
Movie · as Detective Walker

Hit List
Movie · as Walter Murphy

Assassins' Code
Movie · as Arlo

Dreamkiller
Movie · as Agent Barnes

Bed & Breakfast
Movie · as Mr. Harvey

Bereavement
Movie · as Ted

Buffalo Bushido
Movie · as Vendetti

American Bully
Movie · as News Producer

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Movie · as Self

Handsome Harry
Movie · as Peter Rheems

Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
Movie · as Self

Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
Movie · as Self

First Time Long Time
Movie · as Peter

From a Place of Darkness
Movie · as Vic

The Coverup
Movie · as Thomas Thacker

The Golden Boys
Movie · as Web Saunders

Boiler Maker
Movie · as J.J.
The Violent Kind
Movie · as George Malloy

The Grift
Movie · as William Bender

Fringe
TV · as Sam Weiss · 1 ep

The Attic
Movie · as Graham Callan

Shortcut to Happiness
Movie · as Johnny (uncredited)

No Destination
Movie · as Billy

Kill Your Darlings
Movie · as Rock

The Drop
Movie · as Mr. Zero

Shut Up and Shoot!
Movie · as Marty Pearlheimer

Iowa
Movie · as Irv Huffman

Confessions of a Pit Fighter
Movie · as McGee

The New World
Movie · as Savage

Love's Long Journey
Movie · as Trent

Aimée Price
Movie · as Antiquarian

Freedom from Despair
Movie · as Narrator

Admissions
Movie · as Harry Brighton

Alien Lockdown
Movie · as Dr. Woodman

Downtown: A Street Tale
Movie · as H2O

Sucker Free City
Movie · as Anderson Wade

Fallacy
Movie · as Heathcliff

Easy Sex
Movie · as Frank Iverson

Intoxicating
Movie · as William Shanley
Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
Movie · as Self

Carnivàle
TV · as Henry 'Hack' Scudder · 5 eps

The Anarchist Cookbook
Movie · as Johnny Red

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
Movie · as Self

Redemption of the Ghost
Movie

Everwood
TV · as Daniel Maxwell · 2 eps

Burning Down the House
Movie · as Jake Seiling
Dead Man's Run
Movie · as Carver

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
TV · as Mark Farrell · 1 ep

They Nest
Movie · as Jack Wald

Christina's House
Movie · as James Tarling

The Virginian
Movie · as Steve

The District
TV · as Billy Nevins · 1 ep

Dark Angel
TV · as Col. Donald Lydecker · 21 eps

Message in a Bottle
Movie · as Johnny Land

Frontline
Movie · as Captain Wolfgang Mueller

The Jack Bull
Movie · as Slater

Nightworld: Lost Souls
Movie · as Victor Robinson

Summer of Sam
Movie · as Simon

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
TV · as Lucas Biggs · 1 ep

Little Boy Blue
Movie · as Ray West

The Thin Red Line
Movie · as Sgt. Jack McCron

Club Vampire
Movie · as Zero

Centurion Force
Movie · as Neal

Amnesia
Movie · as Tim Bishop

Last Cut
Movie · as Leo Kimball

Hollywood Safari
Movie · as Deputy Rogers

Before Women Had Wings
Movie · as Billy Jackson

Hostile Intent
Movie · as Bear

A Scent of Paradise
Movie · as Padre Louis
The Mouse
Movie · as Bruce 'The Mouse' Strauss

White Squall
Movie · as McCrea

Managua
Movie · as Dennis

American Strays
Movie · as Dwayne

Where Truth Lies
Movie · as Dr. Ian Lazarre

Firestorm
Movie · as Brinkman

One Good Turn
Movie · as Santapietro

The Takeover
Movie · as Greg

The Crossing Guard
Movie · as Bobby

OP Center
Movie · as Bob Herbert

Carnosaur 2
Movie · as Jack Reed

The Dangerous
Movie · as Emile Lautrec

Red Scorpion 2
Movie · as Andrew Kendrick

Deadly Weapon
Movie · as Sanders

Twisted Fate
Movie · as Drury

Star Trek: Voyager
TV · as Captain Rudy Ransom · 2 eps

The Outer Limits
TV · as Lucas · 1 ep

OP Center
TV · as Bob Herbert · 2 eps

Shattered Image
Movie · as David

Killing Obsession
Movie · as Albert

Touched by an Angel
TV · as Simon Miller · 1 ep

Birdland
TV · 1 ep

C.I.A. II: Target Alexa
Movie · as Franz Kluge

Flynn
Movie · as Joe Stromberg

Berlin '39
Movie · as Wieland

Daybreak
Movie · as The President

Walker, Texas Ranger
TV · as Sergeant Major Bart Hawkins · 1 ep

The X-Files
TV · as Henry Trondheim · 1 ep

Primary Motive
Movie · as Wallace Roberts

Door Into Silence
Movie · as Melvin Devereux

Mountain of Diamonds
Movie · as Blaine

Hunting
Movie · as Michael Bergman

Buck at the Edge of Heaven
Movie · as Wintrop

Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca)
Movie

The Dark Tale
Movie · as Roy Kramer

Across Red Nights
Movie · as Paola

The Burning Shore
TV · as Blaine · 4 eps

Mountain of Diamonds
TV · as Blaine · 4 eps

The Godfather Part III
Movie · as Father Andrew Hagen

Any Man's Death
Movie · as Leon Abrahams

Twin Peaks
TV · as Detective Clark · 1 ep

Do the Right Thing
Movie · as Clifton

Tales from the Crypt
TV · as Benny · 1 ep

Press Gang
TV · as Boy · 1 ep

Date Rape
Movie · as Bernie Morton

The Beat
Movie · as Frank Ellsworth

Hotel Colonial
Movie · as Marco Venieri

Beauty and the Beast
Movie · as Beast/Prince

Desperate
Movie · as Noah

Caribe
Movie · as Jeff Richardson

Salvador
Movie · as John Cassady

Soldier's Revenge
Movie · as Frank Morgan

The Tender Age
Movie · as Tim Donovan

Silent Witness
Movie · as Kevin Dunne

Maria's Lovers
Movie · as Ivan Bibic

Nairobi Affair
Movie · as Rick Cahill

The Bill
TV · 1 ep

Brady’s Escape
Movie · as J.W. Brady

Coming Out of the Ice
Movie · as Victor Herman

American Playhouse
TV · as Tim Donovan · 1 ep

The Amateur
Movie · as Charles Heller

Cattle Annie and Little Britches
Movie · as Bittercreek Newcombe

Inside Moves
Movie · as Roary

Hair
Movie · as Claude Hooper Bukowski

The Onion Field
Movie · as Karl Hettinger

The Deer Hunter
Movie · as Steven Pushkov

Gibbsville
TV · as Jim Malloy · 6 eps

The Sister in Law
Movie · as Robert Strong

The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
Movie · as Jim Malloy

Eric
Movie · as Eric Swensen

All the Kind Strangers
Movie · as Peter

The Killing Kind
Movie · as Terry Lambert

Steelyard Blues
Movie · as Kid

Bad Company
Movie · as Loney

ABC Afterschool Special
TV · as Bernie Morton · 1 ep

Love Is a Carousel
Movie · as Boy Friend

The Master Beater
Movie · as Rocco

The Rebel
TV · as Al · 1 ep

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Eric Swensen · 1 ep





