John Savage

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

217

Gender

Male

Birthday

1949-08-25 (76 years old)

Place of Birth

Old Bethpage, New York, USA

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.

Known For

  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

  • The X-Files

    The X-Files

  • Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    Law & Order: Criminal Intent

  • Fringe

    Fringe

  • Star Trek: Voyager

    Star Trek: Voyager

  • Twin Peaks

    Twin Peaks

  • SEAL Team

    SEAL Team

  • Goliath

    Goliath

  • Everwood

    Everwood

  • Touched by an Angel

    Touched by an Angel

  • Bosch: Legacy

    Bosch: Legacy

  • The Outer Limits

    The Outer Limits

  • The Bill

    The Bill

  • ABC Afterschool Special

    ABC Afterschool Special

  • Tales from the Crypt

    Tales from the Crypt

  • Dark Angel

    Dark Angel

  • Walker, Texas Ranger

    Walker, Texas Ranger

  • The District

    The District

  • The Godfather Part III

    The Godfather Part III

  • The Rebel

    The Rebel

  • Carnivàle

    Carnivàle

  • Message in a Bottle

    Message in a Bottle

  • The Thin Red Line

    The Thin Red Line

  • Press Gang

    Press Gang

  • The Deer Hunter

    The Deer Hunter

  • We Will Be the World Champions

    We Will Be the World Champions

  • Hair

    Hair

  • The Audition

    The Audition

  • The Virginian

    The Virginian

  • Buck at the Edge of Heaven

    Buck at the Edge of Heaven

  • Downtown: A Street Tale

    Downtown: A Street Tale

  • Real Gangsters

    Real Gangsters

  • Shortcut to Happiness

    Shortcut to Happiness

  • Hotel Colonial

    Hotel Colonial

  • Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

    Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

  • American Romance

    American Romance

  • The Goat

    The Goat

  • Maria's Lovers

    Maria's Lovers

  • The Anarchist Cookbook

    The Anarchist Cookbook

  • The Crossing Guard

    The Crossing Guard

  • Bermuda Tentacles

    Bermuda Tentacles

  • The New World

    The New World

  • The Islands

    The Islands

  • Alien Rising

    Alien Rising

  • The Jack Bull

    The Jack Bull

  • Daybreak

    Daybreak

  • Hollywood Safari

    Hollywood Safari

  • Summer Song

    Summer Song

  • The Onion Field

    The Onion Field

  • Vampire Wars

    Vampire Wars

  • The Right to Bear Arms

    The Right to Bear Arms

  • Michael Cimino, God Bless America

    Michael Cimino, God Bless America

  • Summer of Sam

    Summer of Sam

  • Before Women Had Wings

    Before Women Had Wings

  • Bullet

    Bullet

  • They Nest

    They Nest

  • Handsome Harry

    Handsome Harry

  • White Squall

    White Squall

  • Followed

    Followed

  • Sensory Perception

    Sensory Perception

  • The Dangerous

    The Dangerous

  • Three Seconds

    Three Seconds

  • Little Boy Blue

    Little Boy Blue

  • Defending Santa

    Defending Santa

  • Fort Bliss

    Fort Bliss

  • Death 4 Dinner

    Death 4 Dinner

  • Art of Submission

    Art of Submission

  • The Attic

    The Attic

  • Betrayed

    Betrayed

  • The Tribe Remembers

    The Tribe Remembers

  • Silent Witness

    Silent Witness

  • Brady’s Escape

    Brady’s Escape

  • The Orphan Killer

    The Orphan Killer

  • Open Road

    Open Road

  • The Last Full Measure

    The Last Full Measure

  • The Last Full Measure

    The Last Full Measure

  • Primary Motive

    Primary Motive

  • Awakened

    Awakened

  • Soldier's Revenge

    Soldier's Revenge

  • Salvador

    Salvador

  • Coming Out of the Ice

    Coming Out of the Ice

  • Love's Long Journey

    Love's Long Journey

  • Demon Legacy

    Demon Legacy

  • Fallacy

    Fallacy

  • Redemption of the Ghost

    Redemption of the Ghost

  • American Strays

    American Strays

  • Dead Man's Run

    Dead Man's Run

  • Texas Heart

    Texas Heart

  • Tales of Halloween

    Tales of Halloween

  • Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

  • Sins

    Sins

  • Freedom from Despair

    Freedom from Despair

  • Door to Silence

    Door to Silence

  • Confessions of a Pit Fighter

    Confessions of a Pit Fighter

  • Nephilim

    Nephilim

  • Firestorm

    Firestorm

  • Club Vampire

    Club Vampire

  • Bereavement

    Bereavement

  • Frontline

    Frontline

  • Desperate

    Desperate

  • Burning Down the House

    Burning Down the House

  • Mountain of Diamonds

    Mountain of Diamonds

  • Gates of Darkness

    Gates of Darkness

  • Date Rape

    Date Rape

  • Gibbsville

    Gibbsville

  • Deadly Weapon

    Deadly Weapon

  • Admissions

    Admissions

  • The Coverup

    The Coverup

  • The Grift

    The Grift

  • Caribe

    Caribe

  • In Dubious Battle

    In Dubious Battle

  • Twisted Fate

    Twisted Fate

  • Empire of the Sharks

    Empire of the Sharks

  • Do the Right Thing

    Do the Right Thing

  • Cattle Annie and Little Britches

    Cattle Annie and Little Britches

  • Spreading Darkness

    Spreading Darkness

  • Red Scorpion 2

    Red Scorpion 2

  • Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast

  • Kill Your Darlings

    Kill Your Darlings

  • Intoxicating

    Intoxicating

  • American Exit

    American Exit

  • The Killing Kind

    The Killing Kind

  • The Return

    The Return

  • Beyond the Rush

    Beyond the Rush

  • Killing Obsession

    Killing Obsession

  • Bad Company

    Bad Company

  • Ovid and the Art of Love

    Ovid and the Art of Love

  • Eric

    Eric

  • All the Kind Strangers

    All the Kind Strangers

  • Where Truth Lies

    Where Truth Lies

  • The World Champions

    The World Champions

  • Showdown at the Grand

    Showdown at the Grand

  • The Big Fat Stone

    The Big Fat Stone

  • OP Center

    OP Center

  • The Beat

    The Beat

  • Easy Way Out

    Easy Way Out

  • Alien Lockdown

    Alien Lockdown

  • Hold On

    Hold On

  • Birdland

    Birdland

  • Insight

    Insight

  • Assassins' Code

    Assassins' Code

  • 7E

    7E

  • Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's

    Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's

  • The Takeover

    The Takeover

  • Buffalo Bushido

    Buffalo Bushido

  • Iowa

    Iowa

  • The Golden Boys

    The Golden Boys

  • Berlin '39

    Berlin '39

  • The Black Dove

    The Black Dove

  • Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca)

    Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca)

  • One Good Turn

    One Good Turn

  • Mission Possible

    Mission Possible

  • The Man with the Camera

    The Man with the Camera

  • No Destination

    No Destination

  • Amnesia

    Amnesia

  • The Burning Shore

    The Burning Shore

  • Steelyard Blues

    Steelyard Blues

  • The Drop

    The Drop

  • OP Center

    OP Center

  • Across Red Nights

    Across Red Nights

  • A Scent of Paradise

    A Scent of Paradise

  • The Amateur

    The Amateur

  • Love Is a Carousel

    Love Is a Carousel

  • Eye for Eye

    Eye for Eye

  • The Hooping Life

    The Hooping Life

  • Hostile Intent

    Hostile Intent

  • The Tender Age

    The Tender Age

  • American Bully

    American Bully

  • Boiler Maker

    Boiler Maker

  • C.I.A. II: Target Alexa

    C.I.A. II: Target Alexa

  • Heavenly Deposit

    Heavenly Deposit

  • Sweetwater

    Sweetwater

  • The Violent Kind

    The Violent Kind

  • Sucker Free City

    Sucker Free City

  • Torch

    Torch

  • Teen Star Academy

    Teen Star Academy

  • Spychosis

    Spychosis

  • I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

    I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

  • A Sierra Nevada Gunfight

    A Sierra Nevada Gunfight

  • Judas' Gospel

    Judas' Gospel

  • Centurion Force

    Centurion Force

  • Easy Sex

    Easy Sex

  • Any Man's Death

    Any Man's Death

  • Caffeinated

    Caffeinated

  • The Neighborhood

    The Neighborhood

  • 40 and Single

    40 and Single

  • Dreamkiller

    Dreamkiller

  • Six Children and One Grandfather

    Six Children and One Grandfather

  • Hit List

    Hit List

  • Inside Moves

    Inside Moves

  • Hunting

    Hunting

  • Bed & Breakfast

    Bed & Breakfast

  • A Star for Rose

    A Star for Rose

  • A Cloud So High

    A Cloud So High

  • Flynn

    Flynn

  • From a Place of Darkness

    From a Place of Darkness

  • Last Cut

    Last Cut

  • The Turning Point of Jim Malloy

    The Turning Point of Jim Malloy

  • Everglades

    Everglades

  • Nightworld: Lost Souls

    Nightworld: Lost Souls

  • Carnosaur 2

    Carnosaur 2

  • Nairobi Affair

    Nairobi Affair

  • Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show

    Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show

  • Mata Hari

    Mata Hari

  • Spinning Dry

    Spinning Dry

  • Shut Up and Shoot!

    Shut Up and Shoot!

  • Christina's House

    Christina's House

  • Fake News

    Fake News

  • The Dark Tale

    The Dark Tale

  • Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

    Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

  • Managua

    Managua

  • The Sister in Law

    The Sister in Law

  • Shattered Image

    Shattered Image

  • Last Call at Murray's

    Last Call at Murray's

  • Down's Revenge

    Down's Revenge

  • The Master Beater

    The Master Beater

  • Sotto il Segno della Vittoria

    Sotto il Segno della Vittoria