
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 · Beyond the Rush as Edward Clayborn
- 2023 · The Goat as
- 2023 · Showdown at the Grand as Lucky
- 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 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 · Gates of Darkness as Joseph
- 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 · Betrayed as Mayor Alderman
- 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 · Vampire Wars as Stokes
- 2017 · Empire of the Sharks as Ian Fien
- 2017 · Nephilim as Father Samuel
- 2016 · American Romance as Emery Reed
- 2016 · Goliath as
- 2016 · In Dubious Battle as Dan
- 2016 · Texas Heart as Carl
- 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
- 2014 · The Big Fat Stone as Robert Tanninger
- 2013 · Defending Santa as Judge Willis
- 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
- 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
- 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 · The Grift as William Bender
- 2008 · The Violent Kind as George Malloy
- 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 · 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
- 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
- 2002 · Everwood as Daniel Maxwell
- 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · Managua as Dennis
- 1996 · One Good Turn as Santapietro
- 1996 · White Squall as McCrea
- 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 · 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 · 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 · C.I.A. II: Target Alexa as Franz Kluge
- 1993 · The X-Files as Henry Trondheim
- 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 · Hunting as Michael Bergman
- 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 · Caribe as Jeff Richardson
- 1987 · Desperate as Noah
- 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
- 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
- 1959 · The Rebel as Al
- Future · Spychosis as Jim Patterson
- 2025 · Death 4 Dinner as Robert Rutherford
- 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
- 2020 · The Man with the Camera as Epifano
- 2019 · Spinning Dry as Frank Manghetti
- 2019 · Ovid and the Art of Love as Augustus
- 2019 · Down's Revenge as Dr Sorkin
- 2018 · Torch as August Lewin
- 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 · Teen Star Academy as
- 2017 · The Return as Čovek u crnom odelu
- 2016 · Mata Hari as Edouard Clunet
- 2016 · The Black Dove as Jake Williams
- 2016 · Everglades as
- 2016 · Last Call at Murray's as Bennett
- 2014 · The Hooping Life as Himself
- 2013 · 7E as Paul
- 2013 · A Sierra Nevada Gunfight as Father Bill
- 2012 · Summer Song as Jim
- 2012 · Sweetwater as Calvin Kabral
- 2010 · Dreamkiller as Agent Barnes
- 2008 · Boiler Maker as J.J.
- 2008 · From a Place of Darkness as Vic
- 2007 · No Destination as Billy
- 2006 · The Drop as Mr. Zero
- 2004 · Admissions as Harry Brighton
- 2003 · Intoxicating as William Shanley
- 2002 · Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick as Self
- 1999 · Nightworld: Lost Souls as Victor Robinson
- 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 · Hollywood Safari as Deputy Rogers
- 1996 · Firestorm as Brinkman
- 1995 · Deadly Weapon as Sanders
- 1993 · Berlin '39 as Wieland
- 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 · Buck at the Edge of Heaven as Wintrop
- 1986 · Soldier's Revenge as Frank Morgan
- 1983 · Brady’s Escape as J.W. Brady
- 1970 · Love Is a Carousel as Boy Friend
- 1969 · The Master Beater as Rocco
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Eric Swensen