Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
August 25, 1949
Place of Birth:
Old Bethpage, New York, USA
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John Savage
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
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Judas' Gospel | Joseph |
| 2025 | Death 4 Dinner | Robert Rutherford |
| 2024 | Beyond the Rush | Edward Clayborn |
| 2023 | Showdown at the Grand | Lucky |
| 2023 | The Goat | |
| 2022 | The Right to Bear Arms | Brutal Magnus |
| 2022 | A Cloud So High | Gene 'Sackler' Sarling |
| 2022 | Eye for Eye | Brad Braddock |
| 2022 | The Audition | Narrator (voice) |
| 2022 | Michael Cimino, God Bless America | Self |
| 2021 | Insight | Frank |
| 2020 | The Last Full Measure | Kepper |
| 2020 | Followed | Wallace Fleischer |
| 2020 | The Man with the Camera | Epifano |
| 2020 | The Last Full Measure | Chauncy Kepper |
| 2020 | The Tribe Remembers | Self |
| 2019 | Spinning Dry | Frank Manghetti |
| 2019 | Ovid and the Art of Love | Augustus |
| 2019 | American Exit | Gerald |
| 2019 | Hold On | Dr. Siedhoff |
| 2019 | Gates of Darkness | Joseph |
| 2019 | Six Children and One Grandfather | David McDoll |
| 2019 | The Islands | Henry Thornton |
| 2019 | Down's Revenge | Dr Sorkin |
| 2019 | Heavenly Deposit | Donald |
| 2018 | Torch | August Lewin |
| 2018 | Easy Way Out | |
| 2018 | Sotto il Segno della Vittoria | |
| 2018 | Mission Possible | Captain Ted Napoleon |
| 2018 | Betrayed | Mayor Alderman |
| 2017 | Nephilim | Father Samuel |
| 2017 | Fake News | President Wayne Walker |
| 2017 | Three Seconds | тренер сборной США Генри Айба |
| 2017 | Empire of the Sharks | Ian Fien |
| 2017 | Teen Star Academy | |
| 2017 | Vampire Wars | Stokes |
| 2017 | The Neighborhood | Vito Bello |
| 2017 | The Return | Čovek u crnom odelu |
| 2017 | Spreading Darkness | Brett |
| 2016 | The Black Dove | Jake Williams |
| 2016 | Last Call at Murray's | Bennett |
| 2016 | Texas Heart | Carl |
| 2016 | American Romance | Emery Reed |
| 2016 | In Dubious Battle | Dan |
| 2016 | Mata Hari | Edouard Clunet |
| 2016 | Everglades | |
| 2015 | We Will Be the World Champions | William Jones |
| 2015 | Caffeinated | Himself |
| 2015 | Tales of Halloween | Capt. J.G. Zimmerman |
| 2015 | Sensory Perception | President of United Earth |
| 2014 | Bullet | Governor Johnson |
| 2014 | Bermuda Tentacles | President Desteno |
| 2014 | The Hooping Life | Himself |
| 2014 | Demon Legacy | The Codger |
| 2014 | The Big Fat Stone | Robert Tanninger |
| 2014 | Fort Bliss | Mike Swann |
| 2013 | Open Road | Carl |
| 2013 | Awakened | Jack Winston |
| 2013 | A Sierra Nevada Gunfight | Father Bill |
| 2013 | Defending Santa | Judge Willis |
| 2013 | Alien Rising | Manning |
| 2013 | Real Gangsters | Ted Roberts |
| 2013 | A Star for Rose | Mort |
| 2013 | 7E | Paul |
| 2012 | Art of Submission | Harbin Rask |
| 2012 | Sweetwater | Calvin Kabral |
| 2012 | Summer Song | Jim |
| 2012 | Sins | Father Karl |
| 2011 | The Orphan Killer | Detective Walker |
| 2011 | Hit List | Walter Murphy |
| 2011 | Assassins' Code | Arlo |
| 2010 | Dreamkiller | Agent Barnes |
| 2010 | Bed & Breakfast | Mr. Harvey |
| 2010 | Bereavement | Ted |
| 2009 | Buffalo Bushido | Vendetti |
| 2009 | American Bully | News Producer |
| 2009 | I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | Self |
| 2009 | Handsome Harry | Peter Rheems |
| 2009 | Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later | Self |
| 2009 | Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's | Self |
| 2008 | From a Place of Darkness | Vic |
| 2008 | The Coverup | Thomas Thacker |
| 2008 | The Golden Boys | Web Saunders |
| 2008 | Boiler Maker | J.J. |
| 2008 | The Violent Kind | George Malloy |
| 2008 | The Grift | William Bender |
| 2007 | No Destination | Billy |
| 2006 | The Attic | Graham Callan |
| 2006 | Kill Your Darlings | Rock |
| 2006 | The Drop | Mr. Zero |
| 2006 | Shut Up and Shoot! | Marty Pearlheimer |
| 2005 | Iowa | Irv Huffman |
| 2005 | Confessions of a Pit Fighter | McGee |
| 2005 | The New World | Savage |
| 2005 | Love's Long Journey | Trent |
| 2004 | Freedom from Despair | Narrator |
| 2004 | Admissions | Harry Brighton |
| 2004 | Alien Lockdown | Dr. Woodman |
| 2004 | Downtown: A Street Tale | H2O |
| 2004 | Sucker Free City | Anderson Wade |
| 2004 | Fallacy | Heathcliff |
| 2003 | Shortcut to Happiness | Johnny |
| 2003 | Easy Sex | Frank Iverson |
| 2003 | Intoxicating | William Shanley |
| 2002 | The Anarchist Cookbook | Johnny Red |
| 2002 | Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick | Self |
| 2002 | Redemption of the Ghost | |
| 2001 | Burning Down the House | Jake Seiling |
| 2001 | Dead Man's Run | Carver |
| 2000 | They Nest | Jack Wald |
| 2000 | Christina's House | James Tarling |
| 2000 | The Virginian | Steve |
| 1999 | Message in a Bottle | Johnny Land |
| 1999 | Frontline | Captain Wolfgang Mueller |
| 1999 | The Jack Bull | Slater |
| 1999 | Nightworld: Lost Souls | Victor Robinson |
| 1999 | Summer of Sam | Simon |
| 1998 | The Thin Red Line | Sgt. Jack McCron |
| 1998 | Club Vampire | Zero |
| 1998 | Centurion Force | Neal |
| 1997 | Little Boy Blue | Ray West |
| 1997 | Amnesia | Tim Bishop |
| 1997 | Last Cut | Leo Kimball |
| 1997 | Hollywood Safari | Deputy Rogers |
| 1997 | Before Women Had Wings | Billy Jackson |
| 1997 | Hostile Intent | Bear |
| 1997 | A Scent of Paradise | Padre Louis |
| 1996 | White Squall | McCrea |
| 1996 | Managua | Dennis |
| 1996 | American Strays | Dwayne |
| 1996 | Where Truth Lies | Dr. Ian Lazarre |
| 1996 | Firestorm | Brinkman |
| 1996 | One Good Turn | Santapietro |
| 1995 | The Takeover | Greg |
| 1995 | The Crossing Guard | Bobby |
| 1995 | OP Center | Bob Herbert |
| 1995 | Carnosaur 2 | Jack Reed |
| 1995 | The Dangerous | Emile Lautrec |
| 1995 | Red Scorpion 2 | Andrew Kendrick |
| 1995 | Deadly Weapon | Sanders |
| 1995 | Twisted Fate | Drury |
| 1994 | Shattered Image | David |
| 1994 | Killing Obsession | Albert |
| 1993 | C.I.A. II: Target Alexa | Franz Kluge |
| 1993 | Flynn | Joe Stromberg |
| 1993 | Berlin '39 | Wieland |
| 1993 | Daybreak | The President |
| 1992 | Primary Motive | Wallace Roberts |
| 1991 | Door to Silence | Melvin Devereux |
| 1991 | Mountain of Diamonds | Blaine |
| 1991 | Hunting | Michael Bergman |
| 1991 | Buck at the Edge of Heaven | Wintrop |
| 1991 | Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca) | |
| 1991 | The Dark Tale | Roy Kramer |
| 1991 | Across Red Nights | Paola |
| 1990 | The Godfather Part III | Father Andrew Hagen |
| 1990 | Any Man's Death | Leon Abrahams |
| 1989 | Do the Right Thing | Clifton |
| 1988 | Date Rape | Bernie Morton |
| 1988 | The Beat | Frank Ellsworth |
| 1987 | Hotel Colonial | Marco Venieri |
| 1987 | Beauty and the Beast | Beast/Prince |
| 1987 | Desperate | Noah |
| 1987 | Caribe | Jeff Richardson |
| 1986 | Salvador | John Cassady |
| 1986 | Soldier's Revenge | Frank Morgan |
| 1986 | The Tender Age | Tim Donovan |
| 1985 | Silent Witness | Kevin Dunne |
| 1984 | Maria's Lovers | Ivan Bibic |
| 1984 | Nairobi Affair | Rick Cahill |
| 1983 | Brady’s Escape | J.W. Brady |
| 1982 | Coming Out of the Ice | Victor Herman |
| 1981 | The Amateur | Charles Heller |
| 1981 | Cattle Annie and Little Britches | Bittercreek Newcombe |
| 1980 | Inside Moves | Roary |
| 1979 | Hair | Claude Hooper Bukowski |
| 1979 | The Onion Field | Karl Hettinger |
| 1978 | The Deer Hunter | Steven Pushkov |
| 1975 | The Turning Point of Jim Malloy | Jim Malloy |
| 1975 | Eric | Eric Swensen |
| 1974 | All the Kind Strangers | Peter |
| 1974 | The Killing Kind | Terry Lambert |
| 1974 | The Sister in Law | Robert Strong |
| 1973 | Steelyard Blues | Kid |
| 1972 | Bad Company | Loney |
| 1970 | Love Is a Carousel | Boy Friend |
| 1969 | The Master Beater | Rocco |
| Spychosis | Jim Patterson |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Bosch: Legacy | Allie Lewis |
| 2018 | 40 and Single | Stewart Temple |
| 2017 | SEAL Team | Emmet Quinn |
| 2016 | The World Champions | Wiliam Jones |
| 2016 | Goliath | |
| 2008 | Fringe | Sam Weiss |
| 2003 | Carnivàle | Henry 'Hack' Scudder |
| 2002 | Everwood | Daniel Maxwell |
| 2001 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Mark Farrell |
| 2000 | The District | Billy Nevins |
| 2000 | Dark Angel | Col. Donald Lydecker |
| 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Lucas Biggs |
| 1995 | Star Trek: Voyager | Captain Rudy Ransom |
| 1995 | The Outer Limits | Lucas |
| 1995 | OP Center | Bob Herbert |
| 1994 | Touched by an Angel | Simon Miller |
| 1994 | Birdland | |
| 1993 | Walker, Texas Ranger | Sergeant Major Bart Hawkins |
| 1993 | The X-Files | Henry Trondheim |
| 1991 | Great Expectations | Urchin |
| 1991 | The Burning Shore | Blaine |
| 1990 | Twin Peaks | Detective Clark |
| 1989 | Tales from the Crypt | Benny |
| 1989 | Press Gang | Boy |
| 1984 | The Bill | |
| 1976 | Gibbsville | Jim Malloy |
| 1972 | ABC Afterschool Special | Bernie Morton |
| 1959 | The Rebel | Al |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Eric Swensen |