
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
- 2022 · Bosch: Legacy as Allie Lewis
- 2022 · Eye for Eye as Brad Braddock
- 2020 · Followed as Wallace Fleischer
- 2020 · The Last Full Measure as Kepper
- 2020 · The Last Full Measure as Chauncy Kepper
- 2019 · Gates of Darkness as Joseph
- 2019 · American Exit as Gerald
- 2018 · 40 and Single as Stewart Temple
- 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
- 2015 · Tales of Halloween as Capt. J.G. Zimmerman
- 2014 · Fort Bliss as Mike Swann
- 2014 · Bermuda Tentacles as President Desteno
- 2014 · Bullet as Governor Johnson
- 2014 · The Big Fat Stone as Robert Tanninger
- 2013 · Alien Rising as Manning
- 2013 · Real Gangsters as Ted Roberts
- 2012 · Art of Submission as Harbin Rask
- 2011 · The Orphan Killer as Detective Walker
- 2011 · Hit List as Walter Murphy
- 2010 · Bed & Breakfast as Mr. Harvey
- 2010 · Bereavement as Ted
- 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
- 2006 · The Attic as Graham Callan
- 2006 · Kill Your Darlings as Rock
- 2005 · The New World as Savage
- 2004 · Downtown: A Street Tale as H2O
- 2004 · Admissions as Harry Brighton
- 2004 · Sucker Free City as Anderson Wade
- 2003 · Carnivàle as Henry 'Hack' Scudder
- 2003 · Shortcut to Happiness as Johnny
- 2002 · Everwood as Daniel Maxwell
- 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
- 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 · 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 Outer Limits as Lucas
- 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
- 1994 · Touched by an Angel as Simon Miller
- 1994 · Killing Obsession as Albert
- 1994 · Birdland as
- 1993 · C.I.A. II: Target Alexa as Franz Kluge
- 1993 · The X-Files as Henry Trondheim
- 1993 · Daybreak as The President
- 1993 · Walker, Texas Ranger as Sergeant Major Bart Hawkins
- 1991 · Great Expectations as Urchin
- 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 · The Beat as Frank Ellsworth
- 1987 · Caribe as Jeff Richardson
- 1987 · Desperate as Noah
- 1987 · Beauty and the Beast as Beast/Prince
- 1986 · Salvador as John Cassady
- 1985 · Silent Witness as Kevin Dunne
- 1984 · The Bill as
- 1984 · Maria's Lovers as Ivan Bibic
- 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 · The Turning Point of Jim Malloy as Jim Malloy
- 1974 · All the Kind Strangers as Peter
- 1973 · Steelyard Blues as Kid
- 1972 · Bad Company as Loney
- 1972 · ABC Afterschool Special as Bernie Morton
- 1959 · The Rebel as Al
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as Eric Swensen
- Future · Judas' Gospel as Joseph
- 2024 · Beyond the Rush as Edward Clayborn
- 2023 · The Goat as
- 2023 · Showdown at the Grand as Lucky
- 2021 · Insight as Frank
- 2020 · The Man with the Camera as Epifano
- 2019 · Heavenly Deposit as Donald
- 2018 · Torch as August Lewin
- 2018 · Betrayed as Mayor Alderman
- 2017 · Fake News as President Wayne Walker
- 2017 · The Return as Čovek u crnom odelu
- 2016 · Last Call at Murray's as Bennett
- 2015 · Sensory Perception as President of United Earth
- 2015 · We Will Be the World Champions as William Jones
- 2015 · Caffeinated as Himself
- 2014 · Demon Legacy as The Codger
- 2013 · Defending Santa as Judge Willis
- 2013 · Awakened as Jack Winston
- 2013 · Open Road as Carl
- 2012 · Sins as Father Karl
- 2011 · Assassins' Code as Arlo
- 2009 · Buffalo Bushido as Vendetti
- 2009 · Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later as Self
- 2009 · American Bully as News Producer
- 2008 · The Golden Boys as Web Saunders
- 2008 · The Grift as William Bender
- 2008 · The Violent Kind as George Malloy
- 2006 · Shut Up and Shoot! as Marty Pearlheimer
- 2005 · Confessions of a Pit Fighter as McGee
- 2005 · Iowa as Irv Huffman
- 2004 · Fallacy as Heathcliff
- 2003 · Easy Sex as Frank Iverson
- 2002 · Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick as Self
- 2002 · The Anarchist Cookbook as Johnny Red
- 2002 · Redemption of the Ghost as
- 2000 · Christina's House as James Tarling
- 2000 · The Virginian as Steve
- 1999 · Nightworld: Lost Souls as Victor Robinson
- 1999 · Frontline as Captain Wolfgang Mueller
- 1998 · Club Vampire as Zero
- 1997 · A Scent of Paradise as Padre Louis
- 1997 · Amnesia as Tim Bishop
- 1995 · OP Center as Bob Herbert
- 1995 · Twisted Fate as Drury
- 1995 · The Takeover as Greg
- 1994 · Shattered Image as David
- 1992 · Primary Motive as Wallace Roberts
- 1991 · The Burning Shore as Blaine
- 1988 · Date Rape as Bernie Morton
- 1987 · Hotel Colonial as Marco Venieri
- 1986 · The Tender Age as Tim Donovan
- 1983 · Brady’s Escape as J.W. Brady
- 1975 · Eric as Eric Swensen
- 1974 · The Killing Kind as Terry Lambert
- 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 · Michael Cimino, God Bless America as Self
- 2020 · The Tribe Remembers as Self
- 2019 · Hold On as Dr. Siedhoff
- 2019 · The Islands as Henry Thornton
- 2019 · Spinning Dry as Frank Manghetti
- 2019 · Ovid and the Art of Love as Augustus
- 2019 · Down's Revenge as Dr Sorkin
- 2019 · Six Children and One Grandfather as David McDoll
- 2018 · Mission Possible as Captain Ted Napoleon
- 2018 · Sotto il Segno della Vittoria as
- 2018 · Easy Way Out as
- 2017 · Teen Star Academy as
- 2016 · Mata Hari as Edouard Clunet
- 2016 · The Black Dove as Jake Williams
- 2016 · Everglades as
- 2016 · Texas Heart as Carl
- 2016 · The World Champions as Wiliam Jones
- 2014 · The Hooping Life as Himself
- 2013 · 7E as Paul
- 2013 · A Star for Rose as Mort
- 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 · Freedom from Despair as Narrator
- 2004 · Alien Lockdown as Dr. Woodman
- 2003 · Intoxicating as William Shanley
- 1998 · Centurion Force as Neal
- 1997 · Last Cut as Leo Kimball
- 1997 · Hollywood Safari as Deputy Rogers
- 1995 · OP Center as Bob Herbert
- 1993 · Berlin '39 as Wieland
- 1993 · Flynn as Joe Stromberg
- 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 · Buck at the Edge of Heaven as Wintrop
- 1986 · Soldier's Revenge as Frank Morgan
- 1984 · Nairobi Affair as Rick Cahill
- 1974 · The Sister in Law as Robert Strong
- 1970 · Love Is a Carousel as Boy Friend
- 1969 · The Master Beater as Rocco