John Savage
Acting
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
Judas' Gospel
2025 · Movie
Death 4 Dinner
2025 · Movie
Beyond the Rush
2024 · Movie
The Goat
2024 · Movie
Showdown at the Grand
2023 · Movie
The Audition
2022 · Movie
The Right to Bear Arms
2022 · Movie
Bosch: Legacy
2022 · Series
A Cloud So High
2022 · Movie
Eye for Eye
2022 · Movie
Michael Cimino, God Bless America
2022 · Movie
Insight
2021 · Movie
The Tribe Remembers
2020 · Movie
Followed
2020 · Movie
A Medicine for the Mind
2020 · Movie
The Man with the Camera
2020 · Movie
The Last Full Measure
2020 · Movie
Hold On
2019 · Movie
The Islands
2019 · Movie
Spinning Dry
2019 · Movie
Gates of Darkness
2019 · Movie
Ovid and the Art of Love
2019 · Movie
Down's Revenge
2019 · Movie
Heavenly Deposit
2019 · Movie
American Exit
2019 · Movie
Six Children and One Grandfather
2019 · Movie
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019 · Movie
Empire of the Sharks
2018 · Movie
40 and Single
2018 · Series
Torch
2018 · Movie
Betrayed
2018 · Movie
Mission Possible
2018 · Movie
Sotto il Segno della Vittoria
2018 · Movie
Easy Way Out
2018 · Movie
Three Seconds
2017 · Movie
Fake News
2017 · Movie
Spreading Darkness
2017 · Movie
SEAL Team
2017 · Series
The Neighborhood
2017 · Movie
Vampire Wars
2017 · Movie
Teen Star Academy
2017 · Movie
Nephilim
2017 · Movie
The Return
2017 · Movie
American Romance
2016 · Movie
Mata Hari
2016 · Movie
Goliath
2016 · Series
In Dubious Battle
2016 · Movie
The Black Dove
2016 · Movie
Everglades
2016 · Movie
Texas Heart
2016 · Movie
The World Champions
2016 · Series
Last Call at Murray's
2016 · Movie
Sensory Perception
2015 · Movie
Tales of Halloween
2015 · Movie
We Will Be the World Champions
2015 · Movie
Caffeinated
2015 · Movie
Fort Bliss
2014 · Movie
Demon Legacy
2014 · Movie
The Hooping Life
2014 · Movie
Bermuda Tentacles
2014 · Movie
Bullet
2014 · Movie
The Big Fat Stone
2014 · Movie
7E
2013 · Movie
Defending Santa
2013 · Movie
A Star for Rose
2013 · Movie
A Sierra Nevada Gunfight
2013 · Movie
Alien Rising
2013 · Movie
Awakened
2013 · Movie
Real Gangsters
2013 · Movie
Open Road
2013 · Movie
Art of Submission
2012 · Movie
Sins
2012 · Movie
Summer Song
2012 · Movie
Sweetwater
2012 · Movie
The Orphan Killer
2011 · Movie
Assassins' Code
2011 · Movie
Hit List
2011 · Movie
Bed & Breakfast
2010 · Movie
Bereavement
2010 · Movie
Dreamkiller
2010 · Movie
Buffalo Bushido
2009 · Movie
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009 · Movie
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
2009 · Movie
Handsome Harry
2009 · Movie
American Bully
2009 · Movie
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009 · Movie
First Time Long Time
2009 · Movie
The Golden Boys
2008 · Movie
The Coverup
2008 · Movie
Fringe
2008 · Series
Boiler Maker
2008 · Movie
From a Place of Darkness
2008 · Movie
The Grift
2008 · Movie
The Violent Kind
2008 · Movie
Shortcut to Happiness
2007 · Movie
No Destination
2007 · Movie
Shut Up and Shoot!
2006 · Movie
The Drop
2006 · Movie
The Attic
2006 · Movie
Kill Your Darlings
2006 · Movie
The New World
2005 · Movie
Love's Long Journey
2005 · Movie
Confessions of a Pit Fighter
2005 · Movie
Iowa
2005 · Movie
Downtown: A Street Tale
2004 · Movie
Admissions
2004 · Movie
Freedom from Despair
2004 · Movie
Sucker Free City
2004 · Movie
Fallacy
2004 · Movie
Alien Lockdown
2004 · Movie
Easy Sex
2003 · Movie
Carnivàle
2003 · Series
Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
2003 · Movie
Intoxicating
2003 · Movie
Everwood
2002 · Series
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002 · Movie
The Anarchist Cookbook
2002 · Movie
Redemption of the Ghost
2002 · Movie
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Series
Burning Down the House
2001 · Movie
Dead Man's Run
2001 · Movie
The District
2000 · Series
Dark Angel
2000 · Series
They Nest
2000 · Movie
Christina's House
2000 · Movie
The Virginian
2000 · Movie
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
Summer of Sam
1999 · Movie
The Jack Bull
1999 · Movie
Nightworld: Lost Souls
1999 · Movie
Message in a Bottle
1999 · Movie
Frontline
1999 · Movie
The Thin Red Line
1998 · Movie
Club Vampire
1998 · Movie
Little Boy Blue
1998 · Movie
Centurion Force
1998 · Movie
The Mouse
1997 · Movie
Before Women Had Wings
1997 · Movie
Last Cut
1997 · Movie
A Scent of Paradise
1997 · Movie
Hostile Intent
1997 · Movie
Hollywood Safari
1997 · Movie
Amnesia
1997 · Movie
Where Truth Lies
1996 · Movie
American Strays
1996 · Movie
Firestorm
1996 · Movie
Managua
1996 · Movie
One Good Turn
1996 · Movie
White Squall
1996 · Movie
The Outer Limits
1995 · Series
OP Center
1995 · Series
OP Center
1995 · Movie
Carnosaur 2
1995 · Movie
Deadly Weapon
1995 · Movie
Red Scorpion 2
1995 · Movie
The Crossing Guard
1995 · Movie
The Dangerous
1995 · Movie
Star Trek: Voyager
1995 · Series
The Takeover
1995 · Movie
Twisted Fate
1995 · Movie
Touched by an Angel
1994 · Series
Killing Obsession
1994 · Movie
Shattered Image
1994 · Movie
Birdland
1994 · Series
C.I.A. II: Target Alexa
1993 · Movie
The X-Files
1993 · Series
Berlin '39
1993 · Movie
Flynn
1993 · Movie
Daybreak
1993 · Movie
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993 · Series
Primary Motive
1992 · Movie
Door Into Silence
1991 · Movie
Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca)
1991 · Movie
Hunting
1991 · Movie
The Dark Tale
1991 · Movie
Mountain of Diamonds
1991 · Series
Mountain of Diamonds
1991 · Movie
Across Red Nights
1991 · Movie
The Burning Shore
1991 · Series
Buck at the Edge of Heaven
1991 · Movie
The Godfather Part III
1990 · Movie
Any Man's Death
1990 · Movie
Twin Peaks
1990 · Series
Do the Right Thing
1989 · Movie
Tales from the Crypt
1989 · Series
Press Gang
1989 · Series
Date Rape
1988 · Movie
The Beat
1988 · Movie
Caribe
1987 · Movie
Desperate
1987 · Movie
Beauty and the Beast
1987 · Movie
Hotel Colonial
1987 · Movie
Soldier's Revenge
1986 · Movie
Salvador
1986 · Movie
The Tender Age
1986 · Movie
Silent Witness
1985 · Movie
The Bill
1984 · Series
Maria's Lovers
1984 · Movie
Nairobi Affair
1984 · Movie
Brady’s Escape
1983 · Movie
Coming Out of the Ice
1982 · Movie
American Playhouse
1982 · Series
The Amateur
1981 · Movie
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
1981 · Movie
Inside Moves
1980 · Movie
The Onion Field
1979 · Movie
Hair
1979 · Movie
The Deer Hunter
1978 · Movie
Gibbsville
1976 · Series
Eric
1975 · Movie
The Sister in Law
1975 · Movie
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
1975 · Movie
All the Kind Strangers
1974 · Movie
The Killing Kind
1974 · Movie
Steelyard Blues
1973 · Movie
Bad Company
1972 · Movie
ABC Afterschool Special
1972 · Series
Love Is a Carousel
1970 · Movie
The Master Beater
1969 · Movie
The Rebel
1959 · Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
Melodies in the Forest
Movie
Spychosis
Movie