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

Beyond the Rush as Edward Clayborn
The Goat as Julian Brown

2023

Showdown at the Grand as Lucky

2022

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

2021

Insight as Frank

2020

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

2019

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

2018

Empire of the Sharks as Ian Fien
40 and Single as Stewart Temple
Betrayed as Mayor Alderman
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
Nephilim as Father Samuel
Vampire Wars as Stokes
Fake News as President Wayne Walker
Teen Star Academy
The Return as Čovek u crnom odelu

2016

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

2015

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

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

2012

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

2011

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

2010

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

2009

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

2008

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

2007

Shortcut to Happiness as Johnny (uncredited)
The Attic as Graham Callan
No Destination as Billy

2006

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

2005

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

2004

Admissions as Harry Brighton
Downtown: A Street Tale as H2O
Alien Lockdown as Dr. Woodman
Sucker Free City as Anderson Wade
Fallacy as Heathcliff
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
Redemption of the Ghost
The Anarchist Cookbook as Johnny Red

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
Summer of Sam as Simon
The Jack Bull as Slater
Nightworld: Lost Souls as Victor Robinson
Frontline as Captain Wolfgang Mueller

1998

The Thin Red Line as Sgt. Jack McCron
Little Boy Blue as Ray West
Centurion Force as Neal
Club Vampire as Zero

1997

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

1996

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

1995

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

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
C.I.A. II: Target Alexa as Franz Kluge
Daybreak as The President
Flynn as Joe Stromberg
Berlin '39 as Wieland

1992

Primary Motive as Wallace Roberts

1991

Mountain of Diamonds as Blaine
The Burning Shore as Blaine
Mountain of Diamonds as Blaine
Hunting as Michael Bergman
Buck at the Edge of Heaven as Wintrop
Door Into Silence as Melvin Devereux
The Dark Tale as Roy Kramer
Across Red Nights as Paola
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

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

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

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

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

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