John Savage

John Savage (born John Youngs) 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

Birth Location Old Bethpage, New York, USA
Born 1949-08-25

Movies

2023
2023
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
2022
Insight as Frank
2021
2020
Followed as Wallace Fleischer
2020
2020
The Last Full Measure as Chauncy Kepper
2020
2020
The Islands as Henry Thornton
2019
Hold On as Dr. Siedhoff
2019
Spinning Dry as Frank Manghetti
2019
Gates of Darkness as Joseph
2019
2019
Down's Revenge as Dr Sorkin
2019
Heavenly Deposit as Donald
2019
2019
Torch as August Lewin
2018
Betrayed as Mayor Alderman
2018
Mission Possible as Captain Ted
2018
Fake News as President Wayne Walker
2017
2017
The Neighborhood as Vito Bello
2017
Vampire Wars as Stokes
2017
Empire of the Sharks as Ian Fien
2017
Nephilim as Father Samuel
2017
The Return as Čovek u crnom odelu
2017
American Romance as Emery Reed
2016
Mata Hari as Edouard Clunet
2016
2016
Texas Heart as Carl
2016
Sensory Perception as President of United Earth
2015
Tales of Halloween as Capt. J.G. Zimmerman
2015
2015
Caffeinated as Himself
2015
Fort Bliss as Mike Swann
2014
Demon Legacy as The Codger
2014
The Hooping Life as Himself
2014
Bermuda Tentacles as President Desteno
2014
Bullet as Governor Johnson
2014
The Big Fat Stone as Robert Tanninger
2014
7E as Paul
2013
Defending Santa as Judge Willis
2013
A Sierra Nevada Gunfight as Father Bill
2013
Alien Rising as Manning
2013
Awakened as Jack Winston
2013
Real Gangsters as Ted Roberts
2013
Open Road as Carl
2013
Art of Submission as Harbin Rask
2012
Sins as Father Karl
2012
Summer Song as Jim
2012
Sweetwater as Calvin Kabral
2012
The Orphan Killer as Detective Walker
2011
Assassins' Code as Arlo
2011
Hit List as Walter Murphy
2011
Bed & Breakfast as Mr. Harvey
2010
Bereavement as Ted
2010
Dreamkiller as Agent Barnes
2010
Buffalo Bushido as Vendetti
2009
Handsome Harry as Peter Rheems
2009
American Bully as News Producer
2009
The Golden Boys as Web Saunders
2008
The Coverup as Thomas Thacker
2008
Boiler Maker as J.J.
2008
The Grift as William Bender
2008
The Violent Kind as George Malloy
2008
No Destination as Billy
2007
Shut Up and Shoot! as Marty Pearlheimer
2006
The Drop as Mr. Zero
2006
The Attic as Graham Callan
2006
2006
The New World as Savage
2005
Iowa as Irv Huffman
2005
Admissions as Harry Brighton
2004
Freedom from Despair as Narrator
2004
Fallacy as Heathcliff
2004
Alien Lockdown as Dr. Woodman
2004
Easy Sex as Frank Iverson
2003
2003
Intoxicating as William Shanley
2003
The Anarchist Cookbook as Johnny Red
2002
Burning Down the House as Jake Seiling
2001
Dead Man's Run as Carver
2001
They Nest as Jack Wald
2000
Christina's House as James Tarling
2000
The Virginian as Steve
2000
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
1999
The Thin Red Line as Sgt. Jack McCron
1998
Club Vampire as Zero
1998
Centurion Force as Neal
1998
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
1997
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
1996
1995
OP Center as Bob Herbert
1995
Carnosaur 2 as Jack Reed
1995
Deadly Weapon as Sanders
1995
Red Scorpion 2 as Andrew Kendrick
1995
The Dangerous as Emile Lautrec
1995
Twisted Fate as Drury
1995
The Takeover as Greg
1995
Killing Obsession as Albert
1994
Shattered Image as David
1994
CIA II: Target Alexa as Franz Kluge
1993
Berlin '39 as Wieland
1993
Daybreak as The President
1993
Flynn as Joe Stromberg
1993
Primary Motive as Wallace Roberts
1992
Door to Silence as Melvin Devereux
1991
Hunting as Michael Bergman
1991
The Dark Tale as Roy Kramer
1991
1991
1991
1991
The Godfather Part III as Father Andrew Hagen
1990
Any Man's Death as Leon Abrahams
1990
Do the Right Thing as Clifton
1989
The Beat as Frank Ellsworth
1988
Caribe as Jeff Richardson
1987
Desperate as Noah
1987
Beauty and the Beast as Beast/Prince
1987
Hotel Colonial as Marco Venieri
1987
Soldier's Revenge as Frank Morgan
1986
Salvador as John Cassady
1986
The Tender Age as Tim Donovan
1986
Silent Witness as Kevin Dunne
1985
Maria's Lovers as Ivan Bibic
1984
Nairobi Affair as Rick Cahill
1984
The Long Ride as J.W. Brady
1983
Coming Out of the Ice as Victor Herman
1982
The Amateur as Charles Heller
1981
Cattle Annie and Little Britches as Bittercreek Newcombe
1981
Inside Moves as Roary
1980
The Onion Field as Karl Hettinger
1979
Hair as Claude Hooper Bukowski
1979
The Deer Hunter as Steven Pushkov
1978
Eric as Eric Swensen
1975
1975
1974
The Sister in Law as Robert Strong
1974
The Killing Kind as Terry Lambert
1974
1973
Bad Company as Loney
1972
Love Is a Carousel as Boy Friend
1970
1969
Beyond the Rush as Edward Clayborn
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Spychosis as Jim Patterson
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Movies

The Sister in Law Original Music Composer
1974