
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
- 2025 · Death 4 Dinner as Robert Rutherford
- 2023 · The Goat as
- 2022 · The Audition as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · The Man with the Camera as Epifano
- 2019 · Hold On as Dr. Siedhoff
- 2017 · Teen Star Academy as
- 2017 · The Return as Čovek u crnom odelu
- 2016 · American Romance as Emery Reed
- 2016 · The Black Dove as Jake Williams
- 2015 · Sensory Perception as President of United Earth
- 2015 · Caffeinated as Himself
- 2014 · Demon Legacy as The Codger
- 2014 · The Hooping Life as Himself
- 2014 · The Big Fat Stone as Robert Tanninger
- 2013 · Defending Santa as Judge Willis
- 2013 · A Sierra Nevada Gunfight as Father Bill
- 2012 · Sweetwater as Calvin Kabral
- 2011 · Assassins' Code as Arlo
- 2009 · Buffalo Bushido as Vendetti
- 2009 · Handsome Harry as Peter Rheems
- 2009 · American Bully as News Producer
- 2006 · The Drop as Mr. Zero
- 2005 · Iowa as Irv Huffman
- 2004 · Downtown: A Street Tale as H2O
- 2004 · Sucker Free City as Anderson Wade
- 2004 · Fallacy as Heathcliff
- 2004 · Alien Lockdown as Dr. Woodman
- 2002 · The Anarchist Cookbook as Johnny Red
- 2002 · Redemption of the Ghost as
- 2001 · Burning Down the House as Jake Seiling
- 2000 · The Virginian as Steve
- 1999 · Frontline as Captain Wolfgang Mueller
- 1998 · Club Vampire as Zero
- 1998 · Centurion Force as Neal
- 1997 · Before Women Had Wings as Billy Jackson
- 1997 · Hostile Intent as Bear
- 1996 · Where Truth Lies as Dr. Ian Lazarre
- 1996 · Managua as Dennis
- 1996 · One Good Turn as Santapietro
- 1995 · OP Center as Bob Herbert
- 1995 · The Takeover as Greg
- 1994 · Killing Obsession as Albert
- 1991 · Door to Silence as Melvin Devereux
- 1991 · Buck at the Edge of Heaven as Wintrop
- 1987 · Caribe as Jeff Richardson
- 1987 · Hotel Colonial as Marco Venieri
- 1986 · Soldier's Revenge as Frank Morgan
- 1986 · The Tender Age as Tim Donovan
- 1985 · Silent Witness as Kevin Dunne
- 1982 · Coming Out of the Ice as Victor Herman
- 1975 · The Turning Point of Jim Malloy as Jim Malloy
- 1974 · The Sister in Law as Robert Strong
- 1974 · The Killing Kind as Terry Lambert
- Future · Spychosis as Jim Patterson
- 2024 · Beyond the Rush as Edward Clayborn
- 2023 · Showdown at the Grand as Lucky
- 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 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 · 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 Napoleon
- 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 · Nephilim as Father Samuel
- 2016 · Mata Hari as Edouard Clunet
- 2016 · Goliath as
- 2016 · In Dubious Battle as Dan
- 2016 · Everglades as
- 2016 · Texas Heart as Carl
- 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
- 2014 · Fort Bliss as Mike Swann
- 2014 · Bermuda Tentacles as President Desteno
- 2014 · Bullet as Governor Johnson
- 2013 · 7E as Paul
- 2013 · A Star for Rose as Mort
- 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
- 2011 · The Orphan Killer as Detective Walker
- 2011 · Hit List as Walter Murphy
- 2010 · Bed & Breakfast as Mr. Harvey
- 2010 · Bereavement as Ted
- 2010 · Dreamkiller as Agent Barnes
- 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 · 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 Attic as Graham Callan
- 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
- 2004 · Admissions as Harry Brighton
- 2004 · Freedom from Despair as Narrator
- 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
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Mark Farrell
- 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 · Christina's House as James Tarling
- 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 · Last Cut as Leo Kimball
- 1997 · A Scent of Paradise as Padre Louis
- 1997 · Hollywood Safari as Deputy Rogers
- 1997 · Amnesia as Tim Bishop
- 1997 · Little Boy Blue as Ray West
- 1996 · American Strays as Dwayne
- 1996 · Firestorm as Brinkman
- 1996 · White Squall as McCrea
- 1995 · The Outer Limits as Lucas
- 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 · Star Trek: Voyager as Captain Rudy Ransom
- 1995 · Twisted Fate as Drury
- 1994 · Touched by an Angel as Simon Miller
- 1994 · Shattered Image as David
- 1994 · Birdland as
- 1993 · C.I.A. II: Target Alexa as Franz Kluge
- 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 · 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
- 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 · Desperate as Noah
- 1987 · Beauty and the Beast as Beast/Prince
- 1986 · Salvador as John Cassady
- 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
- 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 · All the Kind Strangers as Peter
- 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
- 1969 · The Master Beater as Rocco
- 1959 · The Rebel as Al
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Eric Swensen