John Savage
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
Credits
- 2025 · Judas' Gospel as Joseph
- 2024 · The Goat as Julian Brown
- 2022 · The Audition as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · The Right to Bear Arms as Brutal Magnus
- 2022 · Bosch: Legacy as Allie Lewis
- 2022 · A Cloud So High as Gene 'Sackler' Sarling
- 2019 · Hold On as Dr. Siedhoff
- 2019 · Gates of Darkness as Joseph
- 2019 · Heavenly Deposit as Donald
- 2018 · Mission Possible as Captain Ted Napoleon
- 2018 · Sotto il Segno della Vittoria as
- 2018 · Easy Way Out as
- 2017 · Fake News as President Wayne Walker
- 2017 · Spreading Darkness as Brett
- 2017 · SEAL Team as Emmet Quinn
- 2017 · The Return as Čovek u crnom odelu
- 2016 · Mata Hari as Edouard Clunet
- 2016 · Goliath as Mickey
- 2016 · In Dubious Battle as Dan
- 2016 · Texas Heart as Carl
- 2015 · Sensory Perception as President of United Earth
- 2015 · Tales of Halloween as Capt. J.G. Zimmerman
- 2015 · We Will Be the World Champions as William Jones
- 2014 · Fort Bliss as Mike Swann
- 2014 · Demon Legacy as The Codger
- 2014 · Bermuda Tentacles as President Desteno
- 2014 · The Big Fat Stone as Robert Tanninger
- 2013 · 7E as Paul
- 2013 · Defending Santa as Judge Willis
- 2013 · Alien Rising as Manning
- 2013 · Awakened as Jack Winston
- 2013 · Real Gangsters as Ted Roberts
- 2013 · Open Road as Carl
- 2012 · Sins as Father Karl
- 2011 · The Orphan Killer as Detective Walker
- 2010 · Bereavement as Ted
- 2010 · Dreamkiller as Agent Barnes
- 2009 · Buffalo Bushido as Vendetti
- 2009 · Handsome Harry as Peter Rheems
- 2009 · American Bully as News Producer
- 2008 · The Coverup as Thomas Thacker
- 2008 · Fringe as Sam Weiss
- 2008 · Boiler Maker as J.J.
- 2008 · The Grift as William Bender
- 2007 · No Destination as Billy
- 2006 · Shut Up and Shoot! as Marty Pearlheimer
- 2006 · The Attic as Graham Callan
- 2003 · Carnivàle as Henry 'Hack' Scudder
- 2003 · Intoxicating as William Shanley
- 2002 · Everwood as Daniel Maxwell
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Mark Farrell
- 2001 · Burning Down the House as Jake Seiling
- 2001 · Dead Man's Run as Carver
- 2000 · The District as Billy Nevins
- 2000 · Dark Angel as Col. Donald Lydecker
- 2000 · They Nest as Jack Wald
- 2000 · The Virginian as Steve
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Lucas Biggs
- 1999 · Summer of Sam as Simon
- 1999 · The Jack Bull as Slater
- 1999 · Nightworld: Lost Souls as Victor Robinson
- 1999 · Message in a Bottle as Johnny Land
- 1998 · The Thin Red Line as Sgt. Jack McCron
- 1997 · Before Women Had Wings as Billy Jackson
- 1997 · Hostile Intent as Bear
- 1997 · Hollywood Safari as Deputy Rogers
- 1997 · Little Boy Blue as Ray West
- 1996 · Where Truth Lies as Dr. Ian Lazarre
- 1996 · American Strays as Dwayne
- 1996 · Firestorm as Brinkman
- 1996 · Managua as Dennis
- 1996 · White Squall as McCrea
- 1995 · The Outer Limits as Lucas
- 1995 · Deadly Weapon as Sanders
- 1995 · The Crossing Guard as Bobby
- 1995 · The Dangerous as Emile Lautrec
- 1995 · Star Trek: Voyager as Captain Rudy Ransom
- 1995 · Twisted Fate as Drury
- 1995 · The Takeover as Greg
- 1994 · Touched by an Angel as Simon Miller
- 1994 · Killing Obsession as Albert
- 1993 · The X-Files as Henry Trondheim
- 1993 · Berlin '39 as Wieland
- 1993 · Daybreak as The President
- 1993 · Walker, Texas Ranger as Sergeant Major Bart Hawkins
- 1992 · Primary Motive as Wallace Roberts
- 1991 · The Dark Tale as Roy Kramer
- 1990 · The Godfather Part III as Father Andrew Hagen
- 1990 · Any Man's Death as Leon Abrahams
- 1990 · Twin Peaks as Detective Clark
- 1989 · Tales from the Crypt as Benny
- 1989 · Press Gang as Boy
- 1988 · The Beat as Frank Ellsworth
- 1987 · Caribe as Jeff Richardson
- 1987 · Desperate as Noah
- 1987 · Beauty and the Beast as Beast/Prince
- 1986 · Salvador as John Cassady
- 1985 · Silent Witness as Kevin Dunne
- 1984 · The Bill as
- 1984 · Maria's Lovers as Ivan Bibic
- 1981 · Cattle Annie and Little Britches as Bittercreek Newcombe
- 1978 · The Deer Hunter as Steven Pushkov
- 1974 · All the Kind Strangers as Peter
- 1974 · The Killing Kind as Terry Lambert
- 1973 · Steelyard Blues as Kid
- 1972 · Bad Company as Loney
- 1972 · ABC Afterschool Special as Bernie Morton
- Future · Spychosis as Jim Patterson
- 2025 · Death 4 Dinner as Robert Rutherford
- 2024 · Beyond the Rush as Edward Clayborn
- 2023 · Showdown at the Grand as Lucky
- 2022 · Eye for Eye as Brad Braddock
- 2022 · Michael Cimino, God Bless America as Self
- 2021 · Insight as Frank
- 2020 · The Tribe Remembers as Self
- 2020 · Followed as Wallace Fleischer
- 2020 · The Man with the Camera as Epifano
- 2020 · The Last Full Measure as Kepper
- 2020 · The Last Full Measure as Chauncy Kepper
- 2019 · The Islands as Henry Thornton
- 2019 · Spinning Dry as Frank Manghetti
- 2019 · Ovid and the Art of Love as Augustus
- 2019 · Down's Revenge as Dr Sorkin
- 2019 · American Exit as Gerald
- 2019 · Six Children and One Grandfather as David McDoll
- 2018 · 40 and Single as Stewart Temple
- 2018 · Torch as August Lewin
- 2018 · Betrayed as Mayor Alderman
- 2017 · Three Seconds as тренер сборной США Генри Айба
- 2017 · The Neighborhood as Vito Bello
- 2017 · Vampire Wars as Stokes
- 2017 · Empire of the Sharks as Ian Fien
- 2017 · Teen Star Academy as
- 2017 · Nephilim as Father Samuel
- 2016 · American Romance as Emery Reed
- 2016 · The Black Dove as Jake Williams
- 2016 · Everglades as
- 2016 · The World Champions as Wiliam Jones
- 2016 · Last Call at Murray's as Bennett
- 2015 · Caffeinated as Himself
- 2014 · The Hooping Life as Himself
- 2014 · Bullet as Governor Johnson
- 2013 · A Star for Rose as Mort
- 2013 · A Sierra Nevada Gunfight as Father Bill
- 2012 · Art of Submission as Harbin Rask
- 2012 · Summer Song as Jim
- 2012 · Sweetwater as Calvin Kabral
- 2011 · Assassins' Code as Arlo
- 2011 · Hit List as Walter Murphy
- 2010 · Bed & Breakfast as Mr. Harvey
- 2009 · Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later as Self
- 2009 · Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's as Self
- 2009 · I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- 2008 · The Golden Boys as Web Saunders
- 2008 · From a Place of Darkness as Vic
- 2008 · The Violent Kind as George Malloy
- 2007 · Shortcut to Happiness as Johnny (uncredited)
- 2006 · The Drop as Mr. Zero
- 2006 · Kill Your Darlings as Rock
- 2005 · The New World as Savage
- 2005 · Love's Long Journey as Trent
- 2005 · Confessions of a Pit Fighter as McGee
- 2005 · Iowa as Irv Huffman
- 2004 · Downtown: A Street Tale as H2O
- 2004 · Admissions as Harry Brighton
- 2004 · Freedom from Despair as Narrator
- 2004 · Sucker Free City as Anderson Wade
- 2004 · Fallacy as Heathcliff
- 2004 · Alien Lockdown as Dr. Woodman
- 2003 · Easy Sex as Frank Iverson
- 2003 · Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show as
- 2002 · Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick as Self
- 2002 · The Anarchist Cookbook as Johnny Red
- 2002 · Redemption of the Ghost as
- 2000 · Christina's House as James Tarling
- 1999 · Frontline as Captain Wolfgang Mueller
- 1998 · Club Vampire as Zero
- 1998 · Centurion Force as Neal
- 1997 · Last Cut as Leo Kimball
- 1997 · A Scent of Paradise as Padre Louis
- 1997 · Amnesia as Tim Bishop
- 1996 · One Good Turn as Santapietro
- 1995 · OP Center as Bob Herbert
- 1995 · OP Center as Bob Herbert
- 1995 · Carnosaur 2 as Jack Reed
- 1995 · Red Scorpion 2 as Andrew Kendrick
- 1994 · Shattered Image as David
- 1994 · Birdland as
- 1993 · C.I.A. II: Target Alexa as Franz Kluge
- 1993 · Flynn as Joe Stromberg
- 1991 · Door to Silence as Melvin Devereux
- 1991 · Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca) as
- 1991 · Hunting as Michael Bergman
- 1991 · Mountain of Diamonds as Blaine
- 1991 · Across Red Nights as Paola
- 1991 · Buck at the Edge of Heaven as Wintrop
- 1991 · The Burning Shore as Blaine
- 1989 · Do the Right Thing as Clifton
- 1988 · Date Rape as Bernie Morton
- 1987 · Hotel Colonial as Marco Venieri
- 1986 · Soldier's Revenge as Frank Morgan
- 1986 · The Tender Age as Tim Donovan
- 1984 · 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
- 1980 · Inside Moves as Roary
- 1979 · The Onion Field as Karl Hettinger
- 1979 · Hair as Claude Hooper Bukowski
- 1976 · Gibbsville as Jim Malloy
- 1975 · Eric as Eric Swensen
- 1975 · The Sister in Law as Robert Strong
- 1975 · The Turning Point of Jim Malloy as Jim Malloy
- 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