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

Father Andrew Hagen

The Godfather Part III

Johnny Land

Message in a Bottle

McCrea

White Squall

Claude Hooper Bukowski

Hair

Ray West

Little Boy Blue

Johnny Red

The Anarchist Cookbook

Charles Heller

The Amateur

Greg

The Takeover

John Cassady

Salvador

Steven Pushkov

The Deer Hunter

Loney

Bad Company

Sgt. Jack McCron

The Thin Red Line

Harbin Rask

Art of Submission

Graham Callan

The Attic

Irv Huffman

Iowa

Bobby

The Crossing Guard

Rock

Kill Your Darlings

Frank Manghetti

Spinning Dry

Vic

From a Place of Darkness

Karl Hettinger

The Onion Field

Johnny

Shortcut to Happiness

Captain Wolfgang Mueller

Frontline

Jack Wald

They Nest

Melvin Devereux

Le porte del silenzio

Augustus

Ovid and the Art of Love

Frank Iverson

Easy Sex

Agent Barnes

Dreamkiller

Peter

All the Kind Strangers

Brutal Magnus

The Right to Bear Arms

Marco Venieri

Hotel Colonial

Father Samuel

Nephilim

James Tarling

Christina's House

Mr. Harvey

Bed & Breakfast: Love is a Happy Accident

Lucky

Showdown at the Grand

Bob Herbert

OP Center

Jack Reed

Carnosaur 2

Narrator

Freedom from Despair

Terry Lambert

The Killing Kind

Beast/Prince

Beauty and the Beast

Thomas Thacker

The Coverup

Roary

Inside Moves

August Lewin

Torch

Mr. Zero

The Drop

David

Shattered Image

McGee

Confessions of a Pit Fighter

Gene 'Sackler' Sarling

A Cloud So High

Tim Bishop

Amnesia

William Shanley

Intoxicating

Detective Walker

The Orphan Killer

Web Saunders

The Golden Boys

Harry Brighton

Admissions

Walter Murphy

Hit List

Frank Morgan

Soldier's Revenge

Ted

Bereavement

Dennis

Managua

Vendetti

Buffalo Bushido

Arlo

Assassins' Code

President Wayne Walker

Fake News

Ivan Bibic

Maria's Lovers

Robert Strong

The Sister in Law

Jim Patterson

Spychosis

Dr. Woodman

Alien Lockdown

Leo Kimball

Ultimo Taglio

Franz Kluge

C.I.A. II: Target Alexa

News Producer

American Bully

Dwayne

American Strays

Victor Herman

Coming Out of the Ice

J.W. Brady

Brady’s Escape

Savage

The New World

Bittercreek Newcombe

Cattle Annie and Little Britches

Carl

Open Road

Blaine

La montagna dei diamanti

H2O

Downtown: A Street Tale

Deputy Rogers

Hollywood Safari

Brad Braddock

Eye for Eye

Billy Jackson

Before Women Had Wings

Self

Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

Steve

The Virginian

J.J.

Boiler Maker

Zero

Club Vampire

Calvin Kabral

Sweetwater

Jake Seiling

Burning Down the House

Rick Cahill

Nairobi Affair

Boy Friend

Love Is a Carousel

Governor Johnson

Bullet

Slater

The Jack Bull

President Desteno

Bermuda Tentacles

Jack Winston

Awakened

Father Bill

A Sierra Nevada Gunfight

Michael Bergman

Hunting

Himself

The Hooping Life

Joe Stromberg

Flynn

The Codger

Demon Legacy

Bear

Hostile Intent

Judge Willis

Defending Santa

Wintrop

Buck ai confini del cielo

Noah

Desperate

The Goat

Dr. Ian Lazarre

Where Truth Lies

Jeff Richardson

Caribe

Manning

Alien Rising

Jim Malloy

The Turning Point of Jim Malloy

Emile Lautrec

The Dangerous

Narrator (voice)

The Audition

Ted Roberts

Real Gangsters

Victor Robinson

Nightworld: Lost Souls

William Jones

Bićemo prvaci sveta

Wieland

Berlin '39

Brinkman

Firestorm

Wallace Roberts

Primary Motive

Edward Clayborn

Beyond the Rush

Redemption of the Ghost

Jim

Summer Song

George Malloy

The Violent Kind

Kid

Steelyard Blues

Jake Williams

The Black Dove

Andrew Kendrick

Red Scorpion 2

Bernie Morton

Date Rape

Bennett

Last Call at Murray's

Carl

Texas Heart

Mort

A Star for Rose

Robert Tanninger

The Big Fat Stone

Himself

Caffeinated

Anderson Wade

Sucker Free City

Capt. J.G. Zimmerman

Tales of Halloween

Emery Reed

American Romance

Self

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

Gerald

American Exit

Father Karl

Sins

Padre Louis

Et hjørne af paradis

Clifton

Do the Right Thing

Easy Way Out

William Bender

The Grift

Kepper

The Last Full Measure

Rocco

The Master Beater

Marty Pearlheimer

Shut Up and Shoot!

Leon Abrahams

Any Man's Death

тренер сборной США Генри Айба

Движение вверх

Peter Rheems

Handsome Harry

Sanders

Deadly Weapon

Paul

7E

Santapietro

One Good Turn

Mike Swann

Fort Bliss

Dr. Siedhoff

Hold On

Ian Fien

Empire of the Sharks

Tim Donovan

The Tender Age

Teen Star Academy

Stokes

Vampire Wars

Vito Bello

The Neighborhood

Carver

Dead Man's Run

Dan

In Dubious Battle

Kevin Dunne

Silent Witness

Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca)

Čovek u crnom odelu

Povratak

Albert

Killing Obsession

Drury

Twisted Fate

Brett

Spreading Darkness

Heathcliff

Fallacy

Sotto il Segno della Vittoria

Wallace Fleischer

Followed

Epifano

War Photographer

Joseph

Gates of Darkness

Simon

Summer of Sam

Captain Ted Napoleon

Mission Possible

Mayor Alderman

Betrayed

David McDoll

Six Children and One Grandfather

Neal

Centurion Force

Edouard Clunet

Mata Hari

Self

Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

The President

Daybreak

Henry Thornton

The Islands

President of United Earth

Sensory Perception

Dr Sorkin

Down's Revenge

Donald

Heavenly Deposit

Roy Kramer

Favola crudele

Eric Swensen

Eric

Chauncy Kepper

The Last Full Measure

Frank

Insight

Self

Michael Cimino, un mirage américain

Frank Ellsworth

The Beat

Paola

Notti di paura

Self

The Tribe Remembers

Billy

No Destination

Joseph

La versione di Giuda

Self

Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's

Everglades

Robert Rutherford

Death 4 Dinner

Trent

Love's Long Journey

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

188

Gender

Male

Birthday

1949-08-25

Place of Birth

Old Bethpage, New York, USA

Also Known As

John Smeallie Youngs