John Savage
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Godfather Part III (1990)
as Father Andrew Hagen
The Deer Hunter (1978)
as Steven Pushkov
Maria's Lovers (1984)
as Ivan Bibic
The Thin Red Line (1998)
as Sgt. Jack McCron
The New World (2005)
as Savage
Message in a Bottle (1999)
as Johnny Land
Do the Right Thing (1989)
as Clifton
Hair (1979)
as Claude Hooper Bukowski
Real Gangsters (2013)
as Ted Roberts
The Last Full Measure (2020)
as Kepper
Sins (2012)
as Father Karl
White Squall (1996)
as McCrea
The Crossing Guard (1995)
as Bobby
In Dubious Battle (2016)
as Dan
Summer of Sam (1999)
as Simon
Shortcut to Happiness (2007)
as Johnny (uncredited)
Fort Bliss (2014)
as Mike Swann
Last Cut (1997)
as Leo Kimball
Amnesia (1997)
as Tim Bishop
A Scent of Paradise (1997)
as Padre Louis
Admissions (2004)
as Harry Brighton
The Tender Age (1986)
as Tim Donovan
American Bully (2009)
as News Producer
Salvador (1986)
as John Cassady
Easy Sex (2003)
as Frank Iverson
Bereavement (2010)
as Ted
The Takeover (1995)
as Greg
Where Truth Lies (1996)
as Dr. Ian Lazarre
Empire of the Sharks (2018)
as Ian Fien
Three Seconds (2017)
as тренер сборной США Генри Айба
Red Scorpion 2 (1995)
as Andrew Kendrick
The Drop (2006)
as Mr. Zero
The Amateur (1981)
as Charles Heller
Betrayed (2018)
as Mayor Alderman
Bad Company (1972)
as Loney
The Jack Bull (1999)
as Slater
Tales of Halloween (2015)
as Capt. J.G. Zimmerman
Carnosaur 2 (1995)
as Jack Reed
Last Call at Murray's (2016)
as Bennett
The Onion Field (1979)
as Karl Hettinger
Death 4 Dinner (2025)
as Robert Rutherford
Bullet (2014)
as Governor Johnson
Love's Long Journey (2005)
as Trent
The Neighborhood (2017)
as Vito Bello
Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981)
as Bittercreek Newcombe
Before Women Had Wings (1997)
as Billy Jackson
Bermuda Tentacles (2014)
as President Desteno
American Strays (1996)
as Dwayne
Six Children and One Grandfather (2019)
as David McDoll
Bed & Breakfast (2010)
as Mr. Harvey
Christina's House (2000)
as James Tarling
They Nest (2000)
as Jack Wald
Judas' Gospel (2025)
as Joseph
Torch (2018)
as August Lewin
Shattered Image (1994)
as David
Everglades (2016)
Actor
C.I.A. II: Target Alexa (1993)
as Franz Kluge
Steelyard Blues (1973)
as Kid
Texas Heart (2016)
as Carl
The Orphan Killer (2011)
as Detective Walker
Hotel Colonial (1987)
as Marco Venieri
The Dark Tale (1991)
as Roy Kramer
Spychosis (—)
as Jim Patterson
Brady’s Escape (1983)
as J.W. Brady
Hostile Intent (1997)
as Bear
The Coverup (2008)
as Thomas Thacker
Mata Hari (2016)
as Edouard Clunet
Art of Submission (2012)
as Harbin Rask
The Attic (2006)
as Graham Callan
The Mouse (1997)
as Bruce 'The Mouse' Strauss
Mountain of Diamonds (1991)
as Blaine
Little Boy Blue (1997)
as Ray West
Coming Out of the Ice (1982)
as Victor Herman
Flynn (1993)
as Joe Stromberg
Showdown at the Grand (2023)
as Lucky
Heavenly Deposit (2019)
as Donald
Burning Down the House (2001)
as Jake Seiling
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009)
as Self
Dreamkiller (2010)
as Agent Barnes
Daybreak (1993)
as The President
Across Red Nights (1991)
as Paola
Sucker Free City (2004)
as Anderson Wade
First Time Long Time (2009)
as Peter
Defending Santa (2013)
as Judge Willis
Nightworld: Lost Souls (1999)
as Victor Robinson
Door Into Silence (1991)
as Melvin Devereux
Insight (2021)
as Frank
Hunting (1991)
as Michael Bergman
Centurion Force (1998)
as Neal
Alien Lockdown (2004)
as Dr. Woodman
Assassins' Code (2011)
as Arlo
Inside Moves (1980)
as Roary
Hit List (2011)
as Walter Murphy
We Will Be the World Champions (2015)
as William Jones
Iowa (2005)
as Irv Huffman
Confessions of a Pit Fighter (2005)
as McGee
Melodies in the Forest (—)
Actor
The Anarchist Cookbook (2002)
as Johnny Red
The Big Fat Stone (2014)
as Robert Tanninger
The Virginian (2000)
as Steve
Handsome Harry (2009)
as Peter Rheems
OP Center (1995)
as Bob Herbert
Teen Star Academy (2017)
Actor
The Golden Boys (2008)
as Web Saunders
Sweetwater (2012)
as Calvin Kabral
Eric (1975)
as Eric Swensen
The Dangerous (1995)
as Emile Lautrec
All the Kind Strangers (1974)
as Peter
A Sierra Nevada Gunfight (2013)
as Father Bill
The Master Beater (1969)
as Rocco
Frontline (1999)
as Captain Wolfgang Mueller
The Sister in Law (1975)
as Robert Strong
Down's Revenge (2019)
as Dr Sorkin
Beauty and the Beast (1987)
as Beast/Prince
Beyond the Rush (2024)
as Edward Clayborn
Soldier's Revenge (1986)
as Frank Morgan
From a Place of Darkness (2008)
as Vic
Shut Up and Shoot! (2006)
as Marty Pearlheimer
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick (2002)
as Self
Club Vampire (1998)
as Zero
Managua (1996)
as Dennis
One Good Turn (1996)
as Santapietro
American Romance (2016)
as Emery Reed
Buffalo Bushido (2009)
as Vendetti
Intoxicating (2003)
as William Shanley
Silent Witness (1985)
as Kevin Dunne
Nairobi Affair (1984)
as Rick Cahill
Open Road (2013)
as Carl
The Hooping Life (2014)
as Himself
The Tribe Remembers (2020)
as Self
The Grift (2008)
as William Bender
Downtown: A Street Tale (2004)
as H2O
Dead Man's Run (2001)
as Carver
Killing Obsession (1994)
as Albert
Kill Your Darlings (2006)
as Rock
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later (2009)
as Self
Spreading Darkness (2017)
as Brett
Fallacy (2004)
as Heathcliff
American Exit (2019)
as Gerald
Primary Motive (1992)
as Wallace Roberts
Redemption of the Ghost (2002)
Actor
Alien Rising (2013)
as Manning
Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show (2003)
Actor
Ovid and the Art of Love (2019)
as Augustus
Michael Cimino, God Bless America (2022)
as Self
Demon Legacy (2014)
as The Codger
Any Man's Death (1990)
as Leon Abrahams
Sensory Perception (2015)
as President of United Earth
The Killing Kind (1974)
as Terry Lambert
Followed (2020)
as Wallace Fleischer
Awakened (2013)
as Jack Winston
Date Rape (1988)
as Bernie Morton
Firestorm (1996)
as Brinkman
A Medicine for the Mind (2020)
as Dr. E. Brown
A Star for Rose (2013)
as Mort
Vampire Wars (2017)
as Stokes
Caribe (1987)
as Jeff Richardson
The Islands (2019)
as Henry Thornton
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's (2009)
as Self
Eye for Eye (2022)
as Brad Braddock
Hollywood Safari (1997)
as Deputy Rogers
Mission Possible (2018)
as Captain Ted Napoleon
Love Is a Carousel (1970)
as Boy Friend
Gates of Darkness (2019)
as Joseph
Boiler Maker (2008)
as J.J.
Deadly Weapon (1995)
as Sanders
Caffeinated (2015)
as Himself
Hold On (2019)
as Dr. Siedhoff
The Audition (2022)
as Narrator (voice)
The Return (2017)
as Čovek u crnom odelu
The Goat (2024)
as Julian Brown
Twisted Fate (1995)
as Drury
No Destination (2007)
as Billy
Buck at the Edge of Heaven (1991)
as Wintrop
The Violent Kind (2008)
as George Malloy
The Beat (1988)
as Frank Ellsworth
Fake News (2017)
as President Wayne Walker
The Man with the Camera (2020)
as Epifano
Freedom from Despair (2004)
as Narrator
7E (2013)
as Paul
Easy Way Out (2018)
Actor
Berlin '39 (1993)
as Wieland
The Black Dove (2016)
as Jake Williams
Summer Song (2012)
as Jim
Desperate (1987)
as Noah
A Cloud So High (2022)
as Gene 'Sackler' Sarling
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy (1975)
as Jim Malloy
The Right to Bear Arms (2022)
as Brutal Magnus
Nephilim (2017)
as Father Samuel
Spinning Dry (2019)
as Frank Manghetti
Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca) (1991)
Actor
Sotto il Segno della Vittoria (2018)
Actor