John Savage
Acting
Born August 25, 1949 · Old Bethpage, New York, USA
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.
Films (188)
Judas' Gospel
2025
Death 4 Dinner
2025
Beyond the Rush
2024
The Goat
2024
Showdown at the Grand
2023
The Audition
2022
The Right to Bear Arms
2022
A Cloud So High
2022
Eye for Eye
2022
Michael Cimino, God Bless America
2022
Insight
2021
The Tribe Remembers
2020
Followed
2020
The Man with the Camera
2020
The Last Full Measure
2020
Hold On
2019
The Islands
2019
Spinning Dry
2019
Gates of Darkness
2019
Ovid and the Art of Love
2019
Down's Revenge
2019
Heavenly Deposit
2019
American Exit
2019
Six Children and One Grandfather
2019
Torch
2018
Betrayed
2018
Mission Possible
2018
Sotto il Segno della Vittoria
2018
Easy Way Out
2018
Three Seconds
2017
Fake News
2017
Spreading Darkness
2017
The Neighborhood
2017
Vampire Wars
2017
Empire of the Sharks
2017
Teen Star Academy
2017
Nephilim
2017
The Return
2017
American Romance
2016
Mata Hari
2016
In Dubious Battle
2016
The Black Dove
2016
Everglades
2016
Texas Heart
2016
Last Call at Murray's
2016
Sensory Perception
2015
Tales of Halloween
2015
We Will Be the World Champions
2015
Caffeinated
2015
Fort Bliss
2014
Demon Legacy
2014
The Hooping Life
2014
Bermuda Tentacles
2014
Bullet
2014
The Big Fat Stone
2014
7E
2013
Defending Santa
2013
A Star for Rose
2013
A Sierra Nevada Gunfight
2013
Alien Rising
2013
Awakened
2013
Real Gangsters
2013
Open Road
2013
Art of Submission
2012
Sins
2012
Summer Song
2012
Sweetwater
2012
The Orphan Killer
2011
Assassins' Code
2011
Hit List
2011
Bed & Breakfast
2010
Bereavement
2010
Dreamkiller
2010
Buffalo Bushido
2009
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
2009
Handsome Harry
2009
American Bully
2009
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
The Golden Boys
2008
The Coverup
2008
Boiler Maker
2008
From a Place of Darkness
2008
The Grift
2008
The Violent Kind
2008
Shortcut to Happiness
2007
No Destination
2007
Shut Up and Shoot!
2006
The Drop
2006
The Attic
2006
Kill Your Darlings
2006
The New World
2005
Love's Long Journey
2005
Confessions of a Pit Fighter
2005
Iowa
2005
Downtown: A Street Tale
2004
Admissions
2004
Freedom from Despair
2004
Sucker Free City
2004
Fallacy
2004
Alien Lockdown
2004
Easy Sex
2003
Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
2003
Intoxicating
2003
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
The Anarchist Cookbook
2002
Redemption of the Ghost
2002
Burning Down the House
2001
Dead Man's Run
2001
They Nest
2000
Christina's House
2000
The Virginian
2000
Summer of Sam
1999
The Jack Bull
1999
Nightworld: Lost Souls
1999
Message in a Bottle
1999
Frontline
1999
The Thin Red Line
1998
Club Vampire
1998
Centurion Force
1998
The Mouse
1997
Before Women Had Wings
1997
Last Cut
1997
A Scent of Paradise
1997
Hostile Intent
1997
Hollywood Safari
1997
Amnesia
1997
Little Boy Blue
1997
Where Truth Lies
1996
American Strays
1996
Firestorm
1996
Managua
1996
One Good Turn
1996
White Squall
1996
OP Center
1995
Carnosaur 2
1995
Deadly Weapon
1995
Red Scorpion 2
1995
The Crossing Guard
1995
The Dangerous
1995
The Takeover
1995
Twisted Fate
1995
Killing Obsession
1994
Shattered Image
1994
C.I.A. II: Target Alexa
1993
Berlin '39
1993
Flynn
1993
Daybreak
1993
Primary Motive
1992
Door Into Silence
1991
Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca)
1991
Hunting
1991
The Dark Tale
1991
Mountain of Diamonds
1991
Across Red Nights
1991
Buck at the Edge of Heaven
1991
The Godfather Part III
1990
Any Man's Death
1990
Do the Right Thing
1989
Date Rape
1988
The Beat
1988
Caribe
1987
Desperate
1987
Beauty and the Beast
1987
Hotel Colonial
1987
Soldier's Revenge
1986
Salvador
1986
The Tender Age
1986
Silent Witness
1985
Maria's Lovers
1984
Nairobi Affair
1984
Brady’s Escape
1983
Coming Out of the Ice
1982
The Amateur
1981
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
1981
Inside Moves
1980
The Onion Field
1979
Hair
1979
The Deer Hunter
1978
Eric
1975
The Sister in Law
1975
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
1975
All the Kind Strangers
1974
The Killing Kind
1974
Steelyard Blues
1973
Bad Company
1972
Love Is a Carousel
1970
The Master Beater
1969