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.
Acting (183 movies)
The Godfather Part III
1990
Message in a Bottle
1999
White Squall
1996
Hair
1979
Little Boy Blue
1997
The Anarchist Cookbook
2002
The Amateur
1981
The Takeover
1995
Salvador
1986
The Deer Hunter
1978
Bad Company
1972
The Thin Red Line
1998
Art of Submission
2012
The Attic
2006
Iowa
2005
The Crossing Guard
1995
Kill Your Darlings
2006
Spinning Dry
2019
From a Place of Darkness
2008
The Onion Field
1979
Frontline
1999
Shortcut to Happiness
2007
They Nest
2000
Door to Silence
1991
Ovid and the Art of Love
2019
Easy Sex
2003
Dreamkiller
2010
All the Kind Strangers
1974
The Right to Bear Arms
2022
Hotel Colonial
1987
Nephilim
2017
Christina's House
2000
Bed & Breakfast
2010
Showdown at the Grand
2023
OP Center
1995
Carnosaur 2
1995
Freedom from Despair
2004
The Killing Kind
1974
Beauty and the Beast
1987
The Coverup
2008
Inside Moves
1980
Torch
2018
The Drop
2006
Shattered Image
1994
Confessions of a Pit Fighter
2005
A Cloud So High
2022
Amnesia
1997
Intoxicating
2003
The Orphan Killer
2011
The Golden Boys
2008
Admissions
2004
Hit List
2011
Soldier's Revenge
1986
Bereavement
2010
Managua
1996
Buffalo Bushido
2009
Assassins' Code
2011
Fake News
2017
Maria's Lovers
1984
The Sister in Law
1975
Alien Lockdown
2004
Last Cut
1997
C.I.A. II: Target Alexa
1993
American Bully
2009
American Strays
1996
Coming Out of the Ice
1982
Brady’s Escape
1983
The New World
2005
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
1981
Open Road
2013
Mountain of Diamonds
1991
Downtown: A Street Tale
2004
Hollywood Safari
1997
Eye for Eye
2022
Before Women Had Wings
1997
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
The Virginian
2000
Boiler Maker
2008
Club Vampire
1998
Sweetwater
2012
Nairobi Affair
1984
Love Is a Carousel
1970
Bullet
2014
The Jack Bull
1999
Bermuda Tentacles
2014
Awakened
2013
A Sierra Nevada Gunfight
2013
Hunting
1991
The Hooping Life
2014
Flynn
1993
Demon Legacy
2014
Hostile Intent
1997
Defending Santa
2013
Buck at the Edge of Heaven
1991
Desperate
1987
The Goat
2024
Where Truth Lies
1996
Caribe
1987
Alien Rising
2013
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
1975
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Sister in Law | 1975 | Original Music Composer |