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

Death 4 Dinner as Robert Rutherford
Judas' Gospel as Joseph

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
The Right to Bear Arms as Brutal Magnus
A Cloud So High as Gene 'Sackler' Sarling
Eye for Eye as Brad Braddock
The Audition as Narrator (voice)

2021

Insight as Frank

2020

The Man with the Camera as Epifano
Followed as Wallace Fleischer
The Last Full Measure as Kepper
The Tribe Remembers as Self

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012

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

2011

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

2010

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

2009

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

2008

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

2007

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

2006

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

2005

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

2004

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

2000

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

1999

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

1998

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

1997

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

1996

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

1995

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

1994

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

1993

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

1992

Primary Motive as Wallace Roberts

1991

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

Date Rape as Bernie Morton
The Beat as Frank Ellsworth

1987

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

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

The Onion Field as Karl Hettinger
Hair as Claude Hooper Bukowski

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

1974

The Killing Kind as Terry Lambert
All the Kind Strangers as Peter

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