Actor
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John Savage
Born 1949-08-25
📍 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.
Filmography 214
Judas' Gospel
as Joseph
2025
Death 4 Dinner
as Robert Rutherford
2025
Beyond the Rush
as Edward Clayborn
2024
The Goat
as Julian Brown
2024
Showdown at the Grand
as Lucky
2023
The Audition
as Narrator (voice)
2022
The Right to Bear Arms
as Brutal Magnus
2022
Bosch: Legacy
as Allie Lewis
2022
A Cloud So High
as Gene 'Sackler' Sarling
2022
Eye for Eye
as Brad Braddock
2022
Michael Cimino, God Bless America
as Self
2022
Insight
as Frank
2021
Followed
as Wallace Fleischer
2020
The Man with the Camera
as Epifano
2020
The Last Full Measure
as Kepper
2020
The Last Full Measure
as Chauncy Kepper
2020
Hold On
as Dr. Siedhoff
2019
The Islands
as Henry Thornton
2019
Spinning Dry
as Frank Manghetti
2019
Gates of Darkness
as Joseph
2019
Ovid and the Art of Love
as Augustus
2019
Down's Revenge
as Dr Sorkin
2019
Heavenly Deposit
as Donald
2019
American Exit
as Gerald
2019
Six Children and One Grandfather
as David McDoll
2019
40 and Single
as Stewart Temple
2018
Torch
as August Lewin
2018
Betrayed
as Mayor Alderman
2018
Mission Possible
as Captain Ted Napoleon
2018
Sotto il Segno della Vittoria
2018
Three Seconds
as тренер сборной США Генри Айба
2017
Fake News
as President Wayne Walker
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
Teen Star Academy
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
Goliath
as Mickey
2016
In Dubious Battle
as Dan
2016
The Black Dove
as Jake Williams
2016
Everglades
2016
Texas Heart
as Carl
2016
The World Champions
as Wiliam Jones
2016
Last Call at Murray's
as Bennett
2016
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
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 Star for Rose
as Mort
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
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
2009
First Time Long Time
as Peter
2009
The Golden Boys
as Web Saunders
2008
The Coverup
as Thomas Thacker
2008
Fringe
as Sam Weiss
2008
Boiler Maker
as J.J.
2008
From a Place of Darkness
as Vic
2008
The Grift
as William Bender
2008
Shortcut to Happiness
as Johnny (uncredited)
2007
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
Kill Your Darlings
as Rock
2006
The New World
as Savage
2005
Love's Long Journey
as Trent
2005
Confessions of a Pit Fighter
as McGee
2005
Iowa
as Irv Huffman
2005
Downtown: A Street Tale
as H2O
2004
Admissions
as Harry Brighton
2004
Freedom from Despair
as Narrator
2004
Sucker Free City
as Anderson Wade
2004
Fallacy
as Heathcliff
2004
Alien Lockdown
as Dr. Woodman
2004
Easy Sex
as Frank Iverson
2003
Carnivàle
as Henry 'Hack' Scudder
2003
Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
2003
Intoxicating
as William Shanley
2003
Everwood
as Daniel Maxwell
2002
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
as Self
2002
The Anarchist Cookbook
as Johnny Red
2002
Redemption of the Ghost
2002
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Mark Farrell
2001
Burning Down the House
as Jake Seiling
2001
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
2000
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
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
The Outer Limits
as Lucas
1995
OP Center
as Bob Herbert
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 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
1995
Touched by an Angel
as Simon Miller
1994
Killing Obsession
as Albert
1994
Shattered Image
as David
1994
Birdland
1994
C.I.A. II: Target Alexa
as Franz Kluge
1993
The X-Files
as Henry Trondheim
1993
Berlin '39
as Wieland
1993
Flynn
as Joe Stromberg
1993
Daybreak
as The President
1993
Walker, Texas Ranger
as Sergeant Major Bart Hawkins
1993
Primary Motive
as Wallace Roberts
1992
Door Into Silence
as Melvin Devereux
1991
Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca)
1991
Hunting
as Michael Bergman
1991
The Dark Tale
as Roy Kramer
1991
Mountain of Diamonds
as Blaine
1991
Mountain of Diamonds
as Blaine
1991
Across Red Nights
as Paola
1991
Buck at the Edge of Heaven
as Wintrop
1991
The Burning Shore
as Blaine
1991
The Godfather Part III
as Father Andrew Hagen
1990
Any Man's Death
as Leon Abrahams
1990
Twin Peaks
as Detective Clark
1990
Do the Right Thing
as Clifton
1989
Tales from the Crypt
as Benny
1989
Press Gang
as Boy
1989
Date Rape
as Bernie Morton
1988
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
The Bill
1984
Maria's Lovers
as Ivan Bibic
1984
Nairobi Affair
as Rick Cahill
1984
Brady’s Escape
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
Gibbsville
as Jim Malloy
1976
Eric
as Eric Swensen
1975
The Sister in Law
as Robert Strong
1975
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
as Jim Malloy
1975
All the Kind Strangers
as Peter
1974
The Killing Kind
as Terry Lambert
1974
Steelyard Blues
as Kid
1973
Bad Company
as Loney
1972
ABC Afterschool Special
as Bernie Morton
1972
Love Is a Carousel
as Boy Friend
1970
The Master Beater
as Rocco
1969
The Rebel
as Al
1959
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Eric Swensen
1951