John Savage profile
Actor profile

John Savage

25th August 1949 Old Bethpage, New York, USA Acting

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.

192 Movies 29 TV Shows 221 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

The Goat poster
The Goat 20th September 2024 as Julian Brown
Followed poster
Followed 19th June 2020 as Wallace Fleischer
Hold On poster
Hold On 6th December 2019 as Dr. Siedhoff
Torch poster
Torch 8th October 2018 as August Lewin
Betrayed poster
Betrayed 2nd October 2018 as Mayor Alderman
Three Seconds poster
Three Seconds 28th December 2017 as тренер сборной США Генри Айба
Fake News poster
Fake News 24th November 2017 as President Wayne Walker
The Return poster
The Return 21st February 2017 as Čovek u crnom odelu
Bullet poster
Bullet 25th February 2014 as Governor Johnson
7E poster
7E 10th December 2013 as Paul
Sins poster
Sins 5th May 2012 as Father Karl
Iowa poster
Iowa 22nd April 2005 as Irv Huffman
Easy Sex poster
Easy Sex 24th October 2003 as Frank Iverson
Frontline poster
Frontline 14th January 1999 as Captain Wolfgang Mueller
The Mouse poster
The Mouse 14th November 1997 as Bruce 'The Mouse' Strauss
Flynn poster
Flynn 15th May 1993 as Joe Stromberg
Hunting poster
Hunting 31st October 1991 as Michael Bergman
Caribe poster
Caribe 24th December 1987 as Jeff Richardson
Hair poster
Hair 15th March 1979 as Claude Hooper Bukowski
Eric poster
Eric 10th November 1975 as Eric Swensen
Fringe poster
Fringe 9th September 2008 as Sam Weiss
Carnivàle poster
Carnivàle 14th September 2003 as Henry 'Hack' Scudder
Everwood poster
Everwood 16th September 2002 as Daniel Maxwell