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
- The Audition as Narrator (voice)
- Eye for Eye as Brad Braddock
- Michael Cimino, God Bless America as Self
- A Cloud So High as Gene 'Sackler' Sarling
- The Right to Bear Arms as Brutal Magnus
2021
- Insight as Frank
2020
- The Last Full Measure as Kepper
- The Tribe Remembers as Self
- Followed as Wallace Fleischer
- A Medicine for the Mind as Dr. E. Brown
- The Man with the Camera as Epifano
2019
- American Exit as Gerald
- Heavenly Deposit as Donald
- Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast ... (Thanks)
- Spinning Dry as Frank Manghetti
- The Islands as Henry Thornton
- Six Children and One Grandfather as David McDoll
- Gates of Darkness as Joseph
- Hold On as Dr. Siedhoff
- Down's Revenge as Dr Sorkin
- Ovid and the Art of Love as Augustus
2018
- Betrayed as Mayor Alderman
- 40 and Single as Stewart Temple
- Torch as August Lewin
- Empire of the Sharks as Ian Fien
- Mission Possible as Captain Ted Napoleon
- Easy Way Out
- Sotto il Segno della Vittoria
2017
- SEAL Team as Emmet Quinn
- Three Seconds as тренер сборной США Генри Айба
- The Neighborhood as Vito Bello
- Vampire Wars as Stokes
- Nephilim as Father Samuel
- Spreading Darkness as Brett
- Fake News as President Wayne Walker
- The Return as Čovek u crnom odelu
- Teen Star Academy
2016
- Goliath as Mickey
- In Dubious Battle as Dan
- The World Champions as Wiliam Jones
- Last Call at Murray's as Bennett
- Texas Heart as Carl
- American Romance as Emery Reed
- Mata Hari as Edouard Clunet
- The Black Dove as Jake Williams
- Everglades
2015
- Tales of Halloween as Capt. J.G. Zimmerman
- We Will Be the World Champions as William Jones
- Sensory Perception as President of United Earth
- Caffeinated as Himself
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
- Alien Rising as Manning
- Awakened as Jack Winston
- Defending Santa as Judge Willis
- A Sierra Nevada Gunfight as Father Bill
- 7E as Paul
- A Star for Rose as Mort
2012
- Art of Submission as Harbin Rask
- Summer Song as Jim
- Sweetwater as Calvin Kabral
- Sins as Father Karl
2011
- Hit List as Walter Murphy
- Assassins' Code as Arlo
- The Orphan Killer as Detective Walker
2010
- Bereavement as Ted
- Bed & Breakfast as Mr. Harvey
- Dreamkiller as Agent Barnes
2009
- Handsome Harry as Peter Rheems
- American Bully as News Producer
- I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- Buffalo Bushido as Vendetti
- Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later as Self
- First Time Long Time as Peter
- Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's as Self
2008
- Fringe as Sam Weiss
- The Coverup as Thomas Thacker
- The Golden Boys as Web Saunders
- The Grift as William Bender
- The Violent Kind as George Malloy
- From a Place of Darkness as Vic
- Boiler Maker as J.J.
2007
- Shortcut to Happiness as Johnny (uncredited)
- No Destination as Billy
2006
- The Attic as Graham Callan
- Kill Your Darlings as Rock
- The Drop as Mr. Zero
- 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
- Alien Lockdown as Dr. Woodman
- Sucker Free City as Anderson Wade
- 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
- 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
- Dark Angel as Col. Donald Lydecker
- The District as Billy Nevins
- They Nest as Jack Wald
- The Virginian as Steve
- Christina's House as James Tarling
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Lucas Biggs
- Summer of Sam as Simon
- Message in a Bottle as Johnny Land
- The Jack Bull as Slater
- Frontline as Captain Wolfgang Mueller
- Nightworld: Lost Souls as Victor Robinson
1998
- The Thin Red Line as Sgt. Jack McCron
- Club Vampire as Zero
- Centurion Force as Neal
1997
- Little Boy Blue as Ray West
- Amnesia as Tim Bishop
- Hostile Intent as Bear
- A Scent of Paradise as Padre Louis
- The Mouse as Bruce 'The Mouse' Strauss
- Last Cut as Leo Kimball
- Before Women Had Wings as Billy Jackson
- Hollywood Safari as Deputy Rogers
1996
- American Strays as Dwayne
- White Squall as McCrea
- Managua as Dennis
- One Good Turn as Santapietro
- Where Truth Lies as Dr. Ian Lazarre
- Firestorm as Brinkman
1995
- Star Trek: Voyager as Captain Rudy Ransom
- The Outer Limits as Lucas
- The Crossing Guard as Bobby
- OP Center as Bob Herbert
- Carnosaur 2 as Jack Reed
- Red Scorpion 2 as Andrew Kendrick
- The Dangerous as Emile Lautrec
- 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
- Daybreak as The President
- Flynn as Joe Stromberg
- C.I.A. II: Target Alexa as Franz Kluge
- Berlin '39 as Wieland
1992
- Primary Motive as Wallace Roberts
1991
- The Burning Shore as Blaine
- Mountain of Diamonds as Blaine
- Door Into Silence as Melvin Devereux
- Mountain of Diamonds as Blaine
- Hunting as Michael Bergman
- The Dark Tale as Roy Kramer
- Buck at the Edge of Heaven as Wintrop
- 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
1987
- Hotel Colonial as Marco Venieri
- Caribe as Jeff Richardson
- Beauty and the Beast as Beast/Prince
- 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
- 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 Sister in Law as Robert Strong
- The Turning Point of Jim Malloy as Jim Malloy
1974
- All the Kind Strangers as Peter
- The Killing Kind as Terry Lambert
1973
- Steelyard Blues as Kid
1972
- ABC Afterschool Special as Bernie Morton
- Bad Company as Loney
1970
- Love Is a Carousel as Boy Friend
1969
- The Master Beater as Rocco
1959
- The Rebel as Al
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Eric Swensen