
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
- 2024 · Beyond the Rush as Edward Clayborn
- 2023 · The Goat as
- 2023 · Showdown at the Grand as Lucky
- 2022 · The Audition as Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Bosch: Legacy as Allie Lewis
- 2022 · Eye for Eye as Brad Braddock
- 2022 · Michael Cimino, God Bless America as Self
- 2021 · Insight as Frank
- 2019 · Spinning Dry as Frank Manghetti
- 2019 · Ovid and the Art of Love as Augustus
- 2019 · American Exit as Gerald
- 2018 · Mission Possible as Captain Ted Napoleon
- 2017 · The Neighborhood as Vito Bello
- 2017 · Teen Star Academy as
- 2016 · American Romance as Emery Reed
- 2016 · The Black Dove as Jake Williams
- 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
- 2014 · The Hooping Life as Himself
- 2014 · The Big Fat Stone as Robert Tanninger
- 2013 · A Sierra Nevada Gunfight as Father Bill
- 2013 · Awakened as Jack Winston
- 2012 · Sins as Father Karl
- 2012 · Sweetwater as Calvin Kabral
- 2011 · Assassins' Code as Arlo
- 2009 · Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later as Self
- 2009 · Handsome Harry as Peter Rheems
- 2009 · American Bully as News Producer
- 2008 · The Grift as William Bender
- 2008 · The Violent Kind as George Malloy
- 2006 · The Drop as Mr. Zero
- 2005 · Iowa as Irv Huffman
- 2004 · Downtown: A Street Tale as H2O
- 2004 · Admissions as Harry Brighton
- 2003 · Intoxicating as William Shanley
- 2002 · The Anarchist Cookbook as Johnny Red
- 2001 · Dead Man's Run as Carver
- 2000 · The Virginian as Steve
- 1998 · Club Vampire as Zero
- 1997 · A Scent of Paradise as Padre Louis
- 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 · Carnosaur 2 as Jack Reed
- 1995 · Twisted Fate as Drury
- 1995 · The Takeover as Greg
- 1994 · Killing Obsession as Albert
- 1991 · Door to Silence as Melvin Devereux
- 1991 · Mountain of Diamonds as Blaine
- 1991 · Buck at the Edge of Heaven as Wintrop
- 1988 · The Beat as Frank Ellsworth
- 1986 · Soldier's Revenge as Frank Morgan
- 1985 · Silent Witness as Kevin Dunne
- 1984 · Nairobi Affair as Rick Cahill
- 1983 · Brady’s Escape as J.W. Brady
- 1975 · The Turning Point of Jim Malloy as Jim Malloy
- Future · Spychosis as Jim Patterson
- 2022 · The Right to Bear Arms as Brutal Magnus
- 2022 · A Cloud So High as Gene 'Sackler' Sarling
- 2020 · The Man with the Camera as Epifano
- 2019 · Hold On as Dr. Siedhoff
- 2019 · The Islands as Henry Thornton
- 2019 · Down's Revenge as Dr Sorkin
- 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 · The Return as Čovek u crnom odelu
- 2016 · Everglades as
- 2016 · Last Call at Murray's as Bennett
- 2013 · 7E as Paul
- 2013 · A Star for Rose as Mort
- 2009 · Buffalo Bushido as Vendetti
- 2008 · The Golden Boys as Web Saunders
- 2008 · From a Place of Darkness as Vic
- 2007 · No Destination as Billy
- 2006 · Shut Up and Shoot! as Marty Pearlheimer
- 2001 · Burning Down the House as Jake Seiling
- 1993 · Flynn as Joe Stromberg
- Future · Judas' Gospel as Joseph
- 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 · Gates of Darkness as Joseph
- 2019 · Heavenly Deposit as Donald
- 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 · 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 · Texas Heart as Carl
- 2016 · The World Champions as Wiliam Jones
- 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
- 2013 · Defending Santa as Judge Willis
- 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
- 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 · Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's as Self
- 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.
- 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 · 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 · Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick as Self
- 2002 · Redemption of the Ghost as
- 2001 · Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Mark Farrell
- 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 · Nightworld: Lost Souls as Victor Robinson
- 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 · Hostile Intent as Bear
- 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 Crossing Guard as Bobby
- 1995 · The Outer Limits as Lucas
- 1995 · OP Center as Bob Herbert
- 1995 · Deadly Weapon as Sanders
- 1995 · Red Scorpion 2 as Andrew Kendrick
- 1995 · The Dangerous as Emile Lautrec
- 1995 · Star Trek: Voyager as Captain Rudy Ransom
- 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 · 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 · 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
- 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
- 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 · Eric as Eric Swensen
- 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
- 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
- Future · Death 4 Dinner as Robert Rutherford