John Savage

Born: 1949-08-25 in Old Bethpage, New York, USA

Known For: Acting

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

2025

Judas' Gospel as Joseph
Death 4 Dinner as Robert Rutherford

2024

The Goat as Julian Brown
Beyond the Rush as Edward Clayborn

2023

Showdown at the Grand as Lucky

2022

Bosch: Legacy as Allie Lewis
Michael Cimino, God Bless America as Self
Eye for Eye as Brad Braddock
The Audition as Narrator (voice)
The Right to Bear Arms as Brutal Magnus
A Cloud So High as Gene 'Sackler' Sarling

2021

Insight as Frank

2020

The Last Full Measure as Kepper
Followed as Wallace Fleischer
The Tribe Remembers as Self
The Man with the Camera as Epifano
A Medicine for the Mind as Dr. E. Brown

2019

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast ... (Thanks)
Gates of Darkness as Joseph
Six Children and One Grandfather as David McDoll
Heavenly Deposit as Donald
Down's Revenge as Dr Sorkin
American Exit as Gerald
Ovid and the Art of Love as Augustus
The Islands as Henry Thornton
Hold On as Dr. Siedhoff
Spinning Dry as Frank Manghetti

2018

Betrayed as Mayor Alderman
Empire of the Sharks as Ian Fien
40 and Single as Stewart Temple
Torch as August Lewin
Mission Possible as Captain Ted Napoleon
Sotto il Segno della Vittoria
Easy Way Out

2017

SEAL Team as Emmet Quinn
Three Seconds as тренер сборной США Генри Айба
The Neighborhood as Vito Bello
Spreading Darkness as Brett
The Return as Čovek u crnom odelu
Vampire Wars as Stokes
Nephilim as Father Samuel
Teen Star Academy
Fake News as President Wayne Walker

2016

Goliath as Mickey
In Dubious Battle as Dan
The World Champions as Wiliam Jones
Last Call at Murray's as Bennett
Everglades
Texas Heart as Carl
Mata Hari as Edouard Clunet
American Romance as Emery Reed
The Black Dove as Jake Williams

2015

Tales of Halloween as Capt. J.G. Zimmerman
Caffeinated as Himself
We Will Be the World Champions as William Jones
Sensory Perception as President of United Earth

2014

Fort Bliss as Mike Swann
Bermuda Tentacles as President Desteno
Bullet as Governor Johnson
The Big Fat Stone as Robert Tanninger
Demon Legacy as The Codger
The Hooping Life as Himself

2013

Real Gangsters as Ted Roberts
Open Road as Carl
Defending Santa as Judge Willis
Alien Rising as Manning
Awakened as Jack Winston
A Sierra Nevada Gunfight as Father Bill
A Star for Rose as Mort
7E as Paul

2012

Art of Submission as Harbin Rask
Sins as Father Karl
Sweetwater as Calvin Kabral
Summer Song as Jim

2011

Assassins' Code as Arlo
The Orphan Killer as Detective Walker
Hit List as Walter Murphy

2010

Bereavement as Ted
Bed & Breakfast as Mr. Harvey
Dreamkiller as Agent Barnes

2009

American Bully as News Producer
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later as Self
Handsome Harry as Peter Rheems
First Time Long Time as Peter
Buffalo Bushido as Vendetti
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's as Self

2008

Fringe as Sam Weiss
The Golden Boys as Web Saunders
The Coverup as Thomas Thacker
The Grift as William Bender
From a Place of Darkness as Vic
The Violent Kind as George Malloy
Boiler Maker as J.J.

2007

Shortcut to Happiness as Johnny (uncredited)
No Destination as Billy

2006

The Attic as Graham Callan
The Drop as Mr. Zero
Kill Your Darlings as Rock
Shut Up and Shoot! as Marty Pearlheimer

2005

The New World as Savage
Love's Long Journey as Trent
Iowa as Irv Huffman
Confessions of a Pit Fighter as McGee

2004

Admissions as Harry Brighton
Sucker Free City as Anderson Wade
Alien Lockdown as Dr. Woodman
Fallacy as Heathcliff
Downtown: A Street Tale as H2O
Freedom from Despair as Narrator

2003

Carnivàle as Henry 'Hack' Scudder
Easy Sex as Frank Iverson
Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show as Self
Intoxicating as William Shanley

2002

Everwood as Daniel Maxwell
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick as Self
The Anarchist Cookbook as Johnny Red
Redemption of the Ghost

2001

Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Mark Farrell
Burning Down the House as Jake Seiling
Dead Man's Run as Carver

2000

The District as Billy Nevins
Dark Angel as Col. Donald Lydecker
They Nest as Jack Wald
Christina's House as James Tarling
The Virginian as Steve

1999

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Lucas Biggs
Message in a Bottle as Johnny Land
The Jack Bull as Slater
Summer of Sam as Simon
Frontline as Captain Wolfgang Mueller
Nightworld: Lost Souls as Victor Robinson

1998

The Thin Red Line as Sgt. Jack McCron
Centurion Force as Neal
Club Vampire as Zero

1997

Little Boy Blue as Ray West
Amnesia as Tim Bishop
Hostile Intent as Bear
A Scent of Paradise as Padre Louis
Last Cut as Leo Kimball
The Mouse as Bruce 'The Mouse' Strauss
Before Women Had Wings as Billy Jackson
Hollywood Safari as Deputy Rogers

1996

White Squall as McCrea
Managua as Dennis
Where Truth Lies as Dr. Ian Lazarre
American Strays as Dwayne
One Good Turn as Santapietro
Firestorm as Brinkman

1995

Star Trek: Voyager as Captain Rudy Ransom
The Outer Limits as Lucas
The Crossing Guard as Bobby
Carnosaur 2 as Jack Reed
OP Center as Bob Herbert
Red Scorpion 2 as Andrew Kendrick
The Takeover as Greg
The Dangerous as Emile Lautrec
OP Center as Bob Herbert
Deadly Weapon as Sanders
Twisted Fate as Drury

1994

Touched by an Angel as Simon Miller
Birdland
Shattered Image as David
Killing Obsession as Albert

1993

The X-Files as Henry Trondheim
Walker, Texas Ranger as Sergeant Major Bart Hawkins
Daybreak as The President
C.I.A. II: Target Alexa as Franz Kluge
Flynn as Joe Stromberg
Berlin '39 as Wieland

1992

Primary Motive as Wallace Roberts

1991

The Burning Shore as Blaine
Mountain of Diamonds as Blaine
Hunting as Michael Bergman
Door Into Silence as Melvin Devereux
Mountain of Diamonds as Blaine
The Dark Tale as Roy Kramer
Across Red Nights as Paola
Buck at the Edge of Heaven as Wintrop
Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca)

1990

Twin Peaks as Detective Clark
The Godfather Part III as Father Andrew Hagen
Any Man's Death as Leon Abrahams

1989

Tales from the Crypt as Benny
Press Gang as Boy
Do the Right Thing as Clifton

1988

The Beat as Frank Ellsworth
Date Rape as Bernie Morton

1987

Hotel Colonial as Marco Venieri
Desperate as Noah
Beauty and the Beast as Beast/Prince
Caribe as Jeff Richardson

1986

Salvador as John Cassady
The Tender Age as Tim Donovan
Soldier's Revenge as Frank Morgan

1985

Silent Witness as Kevin Dunne

1984

The Bill
Maria's Lovers as Ivan Bibic
Nairobi Affair as Rick Cahill

1983

Brady’s Escape as J.W. Brady

1982

American Playhouse as Tim Donovan
Coming Out of the Ice as Victor Herman

1981

The Amateur as Charles Heller
Cattle Annie and Little Britches as Bittercreek Newcombe

1980

Inside Moves as Roary

1979

Hair as Claude Hooper Bukowski
The Onion Field as Karl Hettinger

1978

The Deer Hunter as Steven Pushkov

1976

Gibbsville as Jim Malloy

1975

Eric as Eric Swensen
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy as Jim Malloy
The Sister in Law as Robert Strong