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 · Bosch: Legacy as Allie Lewis
- 2022 · Michael Cimino, God Bless America as Self
- 2021 · Insight as Frank
- 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 · Hold On as Dr. Siedhoff
- 2019 · Ovid and the Art of Love as Augustus
- 2019 · Heavenly Deposit as Donald
- 2019 · American Exit as Gerald
- 2018 · Betrayed as Mayor Alderman
- 2018 · Mission Possible as Captain Ted Napoleon
- 2017 · Three Seconds as тренер сборной США Генри Айба
- 2017 · Spreading Darkness as Brett
- 2017 · SEAL Team as Emmet Quinn
- 2017 · The Neighborhood as Vito Bello
- 2017 · The Return as Čovek u crnom odelu
- 2016 · Goliath as Mickey
- 2016 · In Dubious Battle as Dan
- 2016 · Everglades as
- 2016 · Texas Heart as Carl
- 2015 · Sensory Perception as President of United Earth
- 2014 · Fort Bliss as Mike Swann
- 2014 · Demon Legacy as The Codger
- 2014 · Bermuda Tentacles as President Desteno
- 2014 · Bullet as Governor Johnson
- 2013 · 7E as Paul
- 2013 · Defending Santa as Judge Willis
- 2013 · Awakened as Jack Winston
- 2013 · Real Gangsters as Ted Roberts
- 2013 · Open Road as Carl
- 2012 · Sins as Father Karl
- 2012 · Summer Song as Jim
- 2011 · Assassins' Code as Arlo
- 2010 · Bereavement as Ted
- 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
- 2008 · Fringe as Sam Weiss
- 2008 · Boiler Maker as J.J.
- 2008 · The Grift as William Bender
- 2007 · Shortcut to Happiness as Johnny (uncredited)
- 2007 · No Destination as Billy
- 2006 · The Attic as Graham Callan
- 2005 · The New World as Savage
- 2004 · Admissions as Harry Brighton
- 2004 · Fallacy as Heathcliff
- 2004 · Alien Lockdown as Dr. Woodman
- 2003 · Carnivàle as Henry 'Hack' Scudder
- 2003 · Intoxicating as William Shanley
- 2002 · Everwood as Daniel Maxwell
- 2002 · The Anarchist Cookbook as Johnny Red
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Mark Farrell
- 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 · Message in a Bottle as Johnny Land
- 1999 · Frontline as Captain Wolfgang Mueller
- 1998 · The Thin Red Line as Sgt. Jack McCron
- 1998 · Centurion Force as Neal
- 1997 · Hollywood Safari as Deputy Rogers
- 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 · OP Center as Bob Herbert
- 1995 · Star Trek: Voyager as Captain Rudy Ransom
- 1995 · Twisted Fate as Drury
- 1994 · Touched by an Angel as Simon Miller
- 1993 · The X-Files as Henry Trondheim
- 1993 · Berlin '39 as Wieland
- 1993 · Flynn as Joe Stromberg
- 1993 · Daybreak as The President
- 1993 · Walker, Texas Ranger as Sergeant Major Bart Hawkins
- 1992 · Primary Motive as Wallace Roberts
- 1991 · Mountain of Diamonds 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
- 1987 · Caribe as Jeff Richardson
- 1987 · Desperate as Noah
- 1987 · Hotel Colonial as Marco Venieri
- 1986 · Salvador as John Cassady
- 1985 · Silent Witness as Kevin Dunne
- 1984 · The Bill as
- 1984 · Maria's Lovers as Ivan Bibic
- 1984 · Nairobi Affair as Rick Cahill
- 1981 · The Amateur as Charles Heller
- 1981 · Cattle Annie and Little Britches as Bittercreek Newcombe
- 1979 · Hair as Claude Hooper Bukowski
- 1978 · The Deer Hunter as Steven Pushkov
- 1974 · The Killing Kind as Terry Lambert
- 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 · The Audition as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · The Right to Bear Arms as Brutal Magnus
- 2022 · A Cloud So High as Gene 'Sackler' Sarling
- 2022 · Eye for Eye as Brad Braddock
- 2020 · The Tribe Remembers as Self
- 2019 · The Islands as Henry Thornton
- 2019 · Spinning Dry as Frank Manghetti
- 2019 · Gates of Darkness as Joseph
- 2019 · Down's Revenge as Dr Sorkin
- 2019 · Six Children and One Grandfather as David McDoll
- 2018 · 40 and Single as Stewart Temple
- 2018 · Torch as August Lewin
- 2018 · Sotto il Segno della Vittoria as
- 2018 · Easy Way Out as
- 2017 · Fake News as President Wayne Walker
- 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 · Mata Hari as Edouard Clunet
- 2016 · The Black Dove as Jake Williams
- 2016 · The World Champions as Wiliam Jones
- 2016 · Last Call at Murray's as Bennett
- 2015 · Tales of Halloween as Capt. J.G. Zimmerman
- 2015 · We Will Be the World Champions as William Jones
- 2015 · Caffeinated as Himself
- 2014 · The Hooping Life as Himself
- 2014 · The Big Fat Stone as Robert Tanninger
- 2013 · A Star for Rose as Mort
- 2013 · A Sierra Nevada Gunfight as Father Bill
- 2013 · Alien Rising as Manning
- 2012 · Art of Submission as Harbin Rask
- 2012 · Sweetwater as Calvin Kabral
- 2011 · The Orphan Killer as Detective Walker
- 2011 · Hit List as Walter Murphy
- 2010 · Bed & Breakfast as Mr. Harvey
- 2010 · Dreamkiller as Agent Barnes
- 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 · From a Place of Darkness as Vic
- 2008 · The Violent Kind as George Malloy
- 2006 · Shut Up and Shoot! as Marty Pearlheimer
- 2006 · The Drop as Mr. Zero
- 2006 · Kill Your Darlings as Rock
- 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 · Freedom from Despair as Narrator
- 2004 · Sucker Free City as Anderson Wade
- 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 · Redemption of the Ghost as
- 2001 · Burning Down the House as Jake Seiling
- 2001 · Dead Man's Run as Carver
- 2000 · Christina's House as James Tarling
- 1999 · Summer of Sam as Simon
- 1999 · The Jack Bull as Slater
- 1999 · Nightworld: Lost Souls as Victor Robinson
- 1998 · Club Vampire as Zero
- 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 · Amnesia as Tim Bishop
- 1997 · Little Boy Blue as Ray West
- 1996 · Where Truth Lies as Dr. Ian Lazarre
- 1996 · One Good Turn as Santapietro
- 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 Crossing Guard as Bobby
- 1995 · The Dangerous as Emile Lautrec
- 1995 · The Takeover as Greg
- 1994 · Killing Obsession as Albert
- 1994 · Shattered Image as David
- 1994 · Birdland as
- 1993 · C.I.A. II: Target Alexa as Franz Kluge
- 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 · Across Red Nights as Paola
- 1991 · The Burning Shore as Blaine
- 1988 · The Beat as Frank Ellsworth
- 1987 · Beauty and the Beast as Beast/Prince
- 1986 · Soldier's Revenge as Frank Morgan
- 1986 · The Tender Age as Tim Donovan
- 1983 · Brady’s Escape as J.W. Brady
- 1982 · Coming Out of the Ice as Victor Herman
- 1980 · Inside Moves as Roary
- 1979 · The Onion Field as Karl Hettinger
- 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
- 1974 · All the Kind Strangers as Peter
- 1973 · Steelyard Blues as Kid
- 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