John Savage
Acting
- Born:
- 1949-08-25
- Place of birth:
- 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.
Known For
Filmography
Judas' Gospel
Death 4 Dinner
Beyond the Rush
The Goat
Showdown at the Grand
The Audition
The Right to Bear Arms
Bosch: Legacy
A Cloud So High
Eye for Eye
Michael Cimino, God Bless America
Insight
The Tribe Remembers
Followed
A Medicine for the Mind
The Man with the Camera
The Last Full Measure
Hold On
The Islands
Spinning Dry
Gates of Darkness
Ovid and the Art of Love
Down's Revenge
Heavenly Deposit
American Exit
Six Children and One Grandfather
Empire of the Sharks
40 and Single
Torch
Betrayed
Mission Possible
Sotto il Segno della Vittoria
Easy Way Out
Three Seconds
Fake News
Spreading Darkness
SEAL Team
The Neighborhood
Vampire Wars
Teen Star Academy
Nephilim
The Return
American Romance
Mata Hari
Goliath
In Dubious Battle
The Black Dove
Everglades
Texas Heart
The World Champions
Last Call at Murray's
Sensory Perception
Tales of Halloween
We Will Be the World Champions
Caffeinated
Fort Bliss
Demon Legacy
The Hooping Life
Bermuda Tentacles
Bullet
The Big Fat Stone
7E
Defending Santa
A Star for Rose
A Sierra Nevada Gunfight
Alien Rising
Awakened
Real Gangsters
Open Road
Art of Submission
Sins
Summer Song
Sweetwater
The Orphan Killer
Assassins' Code
Hit List
Bed & Breakfast
Bereavement
Dreamkiller
Buffalo Bushido
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
Handsome Harry
American Bully
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
First Time Long Time
The Golden Boys
The Coverup
Fringe
Boiler Maker
From a Place of Darkness
The Grift
The Violent Kind
The Attic
Shortcut to Happiness
No Destination
Shut Up and Shoot!
The Drop
Kill Your Darlings
The New World
Love's Long Journey
Confessions of a Pit Fighter
Iowa
Downtown: A Street Tale
Admissions
Freedom from Despair
Sucker Free City
Fallacy
Alien Lockdown
Easy Sex
Carnivàle
Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
Intoxicating
Everwood
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
The Anarchist Cookbook
Redemption of the Ghost
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Burning Down the House
Dead Man's Run
The District
Dark Angel
They Nest
Christina's House
The Virginian
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Summer of Sam
The Jack Bull
Nightworld: Lost Souls
Message in a Bottle
Frontline
The Thin Red Line
Club Vampire
Little Boy Blue
Centurion Force
The Mouse
Before Women Had Wings
Last Cut
A Scent of Paradise
Hostile Intent
Hollywood Safari
Amnesia
Where Truth Lies
American Strays
Firestorm
Managua
One Good Turn
White Squall
The Outer Limits
OP Center
OP Center
Carnosaur 2
Deadly Weapon
Red Scorpion 2
The Crossing Guard
The Dangerous
Star Trek: Voyager
The Takeover
Twisted Fate
Touched by an Angel
Killing Obsession
Shattered Image
Birdland
C.I.A. II: Target Alexa
The X-Files
Berlin '39
Flynn
Daybreak
Walker, Texas Ranger
Primary Motive
Door Into Silence
Hunting
Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca)
The Dark Tale
Mountain of Diamonds
Mountain of Diamonds
Across Red Nights
Buck at the Edge of Heaven
The Burning Shore
The Godfather Part III
Any Man's Death
Twin Peaks
Do the Right Thing
Tales from the Crypt
Press Gang
Date Rape
The Beat
Caribe
Desperate
Beauty and the Beast
Hotel Colonial
Soldier's Revenge
Salvador
The Tender Age
Silent Witness
The Bill
Maria's Lovers
Nairobi Affair
Brady’s Escape
Coming Out of the Ice
American Playhouse
The Amateur
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
Inside Moves
The Onion Field
Hair
The Deer Hunter
Gibbsville
Eric
The Sister in Law
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
All the Kind Strangers
The Killing Kind
Steelyard Blues
Bad Company
ABC Afterschool Special
Love Is a Carousel
The Master Beater
The Rebel
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Spychosis
Melodies in the Forest