John Savage
John Savage (born John Youngs) 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
- 2024 · Beyond the Rush as Edward Clayborn
- 2023 · The Goat as
- 2023 · Showdown at the Grand as Lucky
- 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
- 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 · Hold On as Dr. Siedhoff
- 2019 · Spinning Dry as Frank Manghetti
- 2019 · Gates of Darkness as Joseph
- 2019 · Ovid and the Art of Love as Augustus
- 2019 · Down's Revenge as Dr Sorkin
- 2019 · Heavenly Deposit as Donald
- 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
- 2018 · Mission Possible as Captain Ted
- 2018 · Sotto il Segno della Vittoria as
- 2018 · Easy Way Out as
- 2017 · Three Seconds as тренер сборной США Генри Айба
- 2017 · Fake News as President Wayne Walker
- 2017 · Spreading Darkness as Brett
- 2017 · SEAL Team as Emmet Quinn
- 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
- 2017 · The Return as Čovek u crnom odelu
- 2016 · American Romance as Emery Reed
- 2016 · Mata Hari as Edouard Clunet
- 2016 · Goliath as
- 2016 · In Dubious Battle as Dan
- 2016 · The Black Dove as Jake Williams
- 2016 · Texas Heart as Carl
- 2016 · The World Champions as Wiliam Jones
- 2016 · Last Call at Murray's as Bennett
- 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
- 2015 · Caffeinated as Himself
- 2014 · Fort Bliss as Mike Swann
- 2014 · Demon Legacy as The Codger
- 2014 · The Hooping Life as Himself
- 2014 · Bermuda Tentacles as President Desteno
- 2014 · Bullet as Governor Johnson
- 2014 · The Big Fat Stone as Robert Tanninger
- 2013 · 7E as Paul
- 2013 · Defending Santa as Judge Willis
- 2013 · A Star for Rose as Mort
- 2013 · A Sierra Nevada Gunfight as Father Bill
- 2013 · Alien Rising as Manning
- 2013 · Awakened as Jack Winston
- 2013 · Real Gangsters as Ted Roberts
- 2013 · Open Road as Carl
- 2012 · Art of Submission as Harbin Rask
- 2012 · Sins as Father Karl
- 2012 · Summer Song as Jim
- 2012 · Sweetwater as Calvin Kabral
- 2011 · The Orphan Killer as Detective Walker
- 2011 · Assassins' Code as Arlo
- 2011 · Hit List as Walter Murphy
- 2010 · Bed & Breakfast as Mr. Harvey
- 2010 · Bereavement as Ted
- 2010 · Dreamkiller as Agent Barnes
- 2009 · Buffalo Bushido as Vendetti
- 2009 · Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later as Self
- 2009 · Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's as Self
- 2009 · Handsome Harry as Peter Rheems
- 2009 · American Bully as News Producer
- 2009 · I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- 2008 · The Golden Boys as Web Saunders
- 2008 · The Coverup as Thomas Thacker
- 2008 · Fringe as Sam Weiss
- 2008 · Boiler Maker as J.J.
- 2008 · From a Place of Darkness as Vic
- 2008 · The Grift as William Bender
- 2008 · The Violent Kind as George Malloy
- 2007 · No Destination as Billy
- 2006 · Shut Up and Shoot! as Marty Pearlheimer
- 2006 · The Drop as Mr. Zero
- 2006 · The Attic as Graham Callan
- 2006 · Kill Your Darlings as Rock
- 2005 · The New World as Savage
- 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 · Carnivàle as Henry 'Hack' Scudder
- 2003 · Shortcut to Happiness as Johnny
- 2003 · Intoxicating as William Shanley
- 2002 · Everwood as Daniel Maxwell
- 2002 · Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick as Self
- 2002 · The Anarchist Cookbook as Johnny Red
- 2002 · Redemption of the Ghost as
- 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 · Dark Angel as Himself
- 2000 · They Nest as Jack Wald
- 2000 · Christina's House as James Tarling
- 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
- 1999 · Frontline as Captain Wolfgang Mueller
- 1998 · The Thin Red Line as Sgt. Jack McCron
- 1998 · Club Vampire as Zero
- 1998 · Centurion Force as Neal
- 1997 · Before Women Had Wings as Billy Jackson
- 1997 · Last Cut as Leo Kimball
- 1997 · A Scent of Paradise as Padre Louis
- 1997 · Hostile Intent as Bear
- 1997 · Hollywood Safari as Deputy Rogers
- 1997 · Amnesia as Tim Bishop
- 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 · One Good Turn as Santapietro
- 1996 · White Squall as McCrea
- 1995 · The Crossing Guard as Bobby
- 1995 · The Outer Limits as Lucas
- 1995 · OP Center as Bob Herbert
- 1995 · OP Center as Bob Herbert
- 1995 · Carnosaur 2 as Jack Reed
- 1995 · Deadly Weapon as Sanders
- 1995 · Red Scorpion 2 as Andrew Kendrick
- 1995 · The Dangerous as Emile Lautrec
- 1995 · Star Trek: Voyager as Captain Rudy Ransom
- 1995 · The Takeover as Greg
- 1995 · Twisted Fate as Drury
- 1994 · Touched by an Angel as Simon Miller
- 1994 · Killing Obsession as Albert
- 1994 · Shattered Image as David
- 1994 · Birdland as
- 1993 · CIA II: Target Alexa as Franz Kluge
- 1993 · The X-Files as Henry Trondheim
- 1993 · Berlin '39 as Wieland
- 1993 · Daybreak as The President
- 1993 · Flynn as Joe Stromberg
- 1993 · Walker, Texas Ranger as Sergeant Major Bart Hawkins
- 1992 · Primary Motive as Wallace Roberts
- 1991 · Door to Silence as Melvin Devereux
- 1991 · Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca) as
- 1991 · Hunting as Michael Bergman
- 1991 · The Dark Tale as Roy Kramer
- 1991 · Mountain of Diamonds as Blaine
- 1991 · Across Red Nights as Paola
- 1991 · Great Expectations as Urchin
- 1991 · The Burning Shore as Blaine
- 1991 · Buck at the Edge of Heaven as Wintrop
- 1990 · The Godfather Part III as Father Andrew Hagen
- 1990 · Any Man's Death as Leon Abrahams
- 1990 · Twin Peaks as Detective Clark
- 1989 · Do the Right Thing as Clifton
- 1989 · Tales from the Crypt as Benny
- 1989 · Press Gang as Boy
- 1988 · Date Rape as Bernie Morton
- 1988 · The Beat as Frank Ellsworth
- 1987 · Caribe as Jeff Richardson
- 1987 · Desperate as Noah
- 1987 · Beauty and the Beast as Beast/Prince
- 1987 · Hotel Colonial as Marco Venieri
- 1986 · Soldier's Revenge as Frank Morgan
- 1986 · Salvador as John Cassady
- 1986 · The Tender Age as Tim Donovan
- 1985 · Silent Witness as Kevin Dunne
- 1984 · The Bill as
- 1984 · Maria's Lovers as Ivan Bibic
- 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
- 1981 · Cattle Annie and Little Britches as Bittercreek Newcombe
- 1980 · Inside Moves as Roary
- 1979 · The Onion Field as Karl Hettinger
- 1979 · Hair as Claude Hooper Bukowski
- 1978 · The Deer Hunter as Steven Pushkov
- 1976 · Gibbsville as Jim Malloy
- 1975 · Eric as Eric Swensen
- 1974 · The Sister in Law as Robert Strong
- Future · Spychosis as Jim Patterson
- 1975 · The Turning Point of Jim Malloy as Jim Malloy
- 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
- 1970 · Love Is a Carousel as Boy Friend
- Future · Judas' Gospel as Joseph
- 1969 · The Master Beater as Rocco
- 1959 · The Rebel as Al
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Eric Swensen