
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 |