John Savage
Born on August 25th, 1949
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.
Filmography Beyond the Rush
2024
Edward Clayborn
Details Showdown at the Grand
2023
Lucky
Details The Audition
2022
Narrator (voice)
Details The Right to Bear Arms
2022
Brutal Magnus
Details A Cloud So High
2022
Gene 'Sackler' Sarling
Details Eye for Eye
2022
Brad Braddock
Details Michael Cimino, God Bless America
2022
Self
Details The Tribe Remembers
2020
Self
Details Followed
2020
Wallace Fleischer
Details The Man with the Camera
2020
Epifano
Details The Last Full Measure
2020
Kepper
Details The Last Full Measure
2020
Chauncy Kepper
Details The Islands
2019
Henry Thornton
Details Spinning Dry
2019
Frank Manghetti
Details Gates of Darkness
2019
Joseph
Details Ovid and the Art of Love
2019
Augustus
Details Down's Revenge
2019
Dr Sorkin
Details Six Children and One Grandfather
2019
David McDoll
Details Mission Possible
2018
Captain Ted Napoleon
Details Sotto il Segno della Vittoria
2018
Character TBA
Details Easy Way Out
2018
Character TBA
Details Three Seconds
2017
тренер сборной США Генри Айба
Details Fake News
2017
President Wayne Walker
Details Spreading Darkness
2017
Brett
Details The Neighborhood
2017
Vito Bello
Details Empire of the Sharks
2017
Ian Fien
Details Teen Star Academy
2017
Character TBA
Details The Return
2017
Čovek u crnom odelu
Details American Romance
2016
Emery Reed
Details Mata Hari
2016
Edouard Clunet
Details The Black Dove
2016
Jake Williams
Details Everglades
2016
Character TBA
Details Last Call at Murray's
2016
Bennett
Details Sensory Perception
2015
President of United Earth
Details Tales of Halloween
2015
Capt. J.G. Zimmerman
Details We Will Be the World Champions
2015
William Jones
Details The Hooping Life
2014
Himself
Details Bermuda Tentacles
2014
President Desteno
Details The Big Fat Stone
2014
Robert Tanninger
Details Defending Santa
2013
Judge Willis
Details A Sierra Nevada Gunfight
2013
Father Bill
Details Real Gangsters
2013
Ted Roberts
Details Art of Submission
2012
Harbin Rask
Details Sweetwater
2012
Calvin Kabral
Details The Orphan Killer
2011
Detective Walker
Details Bed & Breakfast
2010
Mr. Harvey
Details Dreamkiller
2010
Agent Barnes
Details Buffalo Bushido
2009
Vendetti
Details Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009
Self
Details Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
2009
Self
Details Handsome Harry
2009
Peter Rheems
Details American Bully
2009
News Producer
Details I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
Self
Details The Golden Boys
2008
Web Saunders
Details The Coverup
2008
Thomas Thacker
Details From a Place of Darkness
2008
Vic
Details The Grift
2008
William Bender
Details The Violent Kind
2008
George Malloy
Details Shut Up and Shoot!
2006
Marty Pearlheimer
Details Confessions of a Pit Fighter
2005
McGee
Details Downtown: A Street Tale
2004
H2O
Details Admissions
2004
Harry Brighton
Details Freedom from Despair
2004
Narrator
Details Sucker Free City
2004
Anderson Wade
Details Alien Lockdown
2004
Dr. Woodman
Details Shortcut to Happiness
2003
Johnny
Details Intoxicating
2003
William Shanley
Details Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
Self
Details The Anarchist Cookbook
2002
Johnny Red
Details Redemption of the Ghost
2002
Character TBA
Details Burning Down the House
2001
Jake Seiling
Details Christina's House
2000
James Tarling
Details Nightworld: Lost Souls
1999
Victor Robinson
Details Message in a Bottle
1999
Johnny Land
Details Frontline
1999
Captain Wolfgang Mueller
Details The Thin Red Line
1998
Sgt. Jack McCron
Details Before Women Had Wings
1997
Billy Jackson
Details A Scent of Paradise
1997
Padre Louis
Details Hollywood Safari
1997
Deputy Rogers
Details Little Boy Blue
1997
Ray West
Details Where Truth Lies
1996
Dr. Ian Lazarre
Details One Good Turn
1996
Santapietro
Details The Crossing Guard
1995
Bobby
Details Red Scorpion 2
1995
Andrew Kendrick
Details The Dangerous
1995
Emile Lautrec
Details Killing Obsession
1994
Albert
Details CIA II: Target Alexa
1993
Franz Kluge
Details Primary Motive
1992
Wallace Roberts
Details Door to Silence
1991
Melvin Devereux
Details Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca)
1991
Character TBA
Details The Dark Tale
1991
Roy Kramer
Details Mountain of Diamonds
1991
Blaine
Details Buck at the Edge of Heaven
1991
Wintrop
Details The Godfather Part III
1990
Father Andrew Hagen
Details Any Man's Death
1990
Leon Abrahams
Details Do the Right Thing
1989
Clifton
Details The Beat
1988
Frank Ellsworth
Details Beauty and the Beast
1987
Beast/Prince
Details Hotel Colonial
1987
Marco Venieri
Details Soldier's Revenge
1986
Frank Morgan
Details The Tender Age
1986
Tim Donovan
Details Silent Witness
1985
Kevin Dunne
Details Maria's Lovers
1984
Ivan Bibic
Details Nairobi Affair
1984
Rick Cahill
Details Brady’s Escape
1983
J.W. Brady
Details Coming Out of the Ice
1982
Victor Herman
Details The Amateur
1981
Charles Heller
Details Cattle Annie and Little Britches
1981
Bittercreek Newcombe
Details The Onion Field
1979
Karl Hettinger
Details Hair
1979
Claude Hooper Bukowski
Details The Deer Hunter
1978
Steven Pushkov
Details The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
1975
Jim Malloy
Details All the Kind Strangers
1974
Peter
Details The Sister in Law
1974
Robert Strong
Details The Killing Kind
1974
Terry Lambert
Details Love Is a Carousel
1970
Boy Friend
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