
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
- 2023 · The Goat as
- 2022 · The Right to Bear Arms as Brutal Magnus
- 2022 · Michael Cimino, God Bless America as Self
- 2020 · The Man with the Camera as Epifano
- 2019 · The Islands as Henry Thornton
- 2019 · Ovid and the Art of Love as Augustus
- 2019 · Six Children and One Grandfather as David McDoll
- 2018 · Mission Possible as Captain Ted Napoleon
- 2017 · Fake News as President Wayne Walker
- 2017 · Spreading Darkness as Brett
- 2017 · The Neighborhood as Vito Bello
- 2016 · American Romance as Emery Reed
- 2016 · Mata Hari as Edouard Clunet
- 2016 · Texas Heart as Carl
- 2016 · Last Call at Murray's as Bennett
- 2014 · The Hooping Life as Himself
- 2014 · The Big Fat Stone as Robert Tanninger
- 2013 · 7E as Paul
- 2013 · A Sierra Nevada Gunfight as Father Bill
- 2013 · Awakened as Jack Winston
- 2012 · Sins as Father Karl
- 2009 · Buffalo Bushido as Vendetti
- 2009 · American Bully as News Producer
- 2008 · The Golden Boys as Web Saunders
- 2005 · Iowa as Irv Huffman
- 2004 · Admissions as Harry Brighton
- 2004 · Fallacy as Heathcliff
- 2003 · Intoxicating as William Shanley
- 2001 · Burning Down the House as Jake Seiling
- 2000 · The Virginian as Steve
- 1999 · Nightworld: Lost Souls as Victor Robinson
- 1998 · Club Vampire as Zero
- 1996 · Where Truth Lies as Dr. Ian Lazarre
- 1996 · American Strays as Dwayne
- 1996 · Firestorm as Brinkman
- 1996 · Managua as Dennis
- 1995 · Red Scorpion 2 as Andrew Kendrick
- 1995 · The Dangerous as Emile Lautrec
- 1995 · The Takeover as Greg
- 1995 · Twisted Fate as Drury
- 1994 · Shattered Image as David
- 1991 · Hunting as Michael Bergman
- 1991 · Buck at the Edge of Heaven as Wintrop
- 1987 · Caribe as Jeff Richardson
- 1987 · Desperate as Noah
- 1986 · Soldier's Revenge as Frank Morgan
- Future · Spychosis as Jim Patterson
- 2024 · Beyond the Rush as Edward Clayborn
- 2023 · Showdown at the Grand as Lucky
- 2022 · The Audition as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Bosch: Legacy as Allie Lewis
- 2022 · A Cloud So High as Gene 'Sackler' Sarling
- 2022 · Eye for Eye as Brad Braddock
- 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 · Hold On as Dr. Siedhoff
- 2019 · Spinning Dry as Frank Manghetti
- 2019 · Gates of Darkness as Joseph
- 2019 · Down's Revenge as Dr Sorkin
- 2019 · Heavenly Deposit as Donald
- 2019 · American Exit as Gerald
- 2018 · 40 and Single as Stewart Temple
- 2018 · Torch as August Lewin
- 2018 · Betrayed as Mayor Alderman
- 2018 · Sotto il Segno della Vittoria as
- 2018 · Easy Way Out as
- 2017 · Three Seconds as тренер сборной США Генри Айба
- 2017 · SEAL Team as Emmet Quinn
- 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 · Goliath as
- 2016 · In Dubious Battle as Dan
- 2016 · The Black Dove as Jake Williams
- 2016 · The World Champions as Wiliam Jones
- 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 · Bermuda Tentacles as President Desteno
- 2014 · Bullet as Governor Johnson
- 2013 · Defending Santa as Judge Willis
- 2013 · A Star for Rose as Mort
- 2013 · Alien Rising as Manning
- 2013 · Real Gangsters as Ted Roberts
- 2013 · Open Road as Carl
- 2012 · Art of Submission as Harbin Rask
- 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 · 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 · I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
- 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
- 2004 · Downtown: A Street Tale as H2O
- 2004 · Freedom from Despair as Narrator
- 2004 · Sucker Free City as Anderson Wade
- 2004 · Alien Lockdown as Dr. Woodman
- 2003 · Easy Sex as Frank Iverson
- 2003 · Carnivàle as Henry 'Hack' Scudder
- 2003 · Shortcut to Happiness as Johnny
- 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 · 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
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Lucas Biggs
- 1999 · Summer of Sam as Simon
- 1999 · The Jack Bull as Slater
- 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 · 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 · 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 · Star Trek: Voyager as Captain Rudy Ransom
- 1994 · Touched by an Angel as Simon Miller
- 1994 · Killing Obsession as Albert
- 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 · 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 · Beauty and the Beast as Beast/Prince
- 1987 · Hotel Colonial as Marco Venieri
- 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
- 1975 · The Turning Point of Jim Malloy as Jim Malloy
- 1974 · All the Kind Strangers as Peter
- 1974 · The Sister in Law as Robert Strong
- 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 · Judas' Gospel as Joseph
- 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