John Savage

Known for ActingBorn 1949-08-25 (age 76)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Gibbsville

The Master Beater

40 and Single

Last Call at Murray's

Redemption of the Ghost

The Mouse

Across Red Nights

Desperate

The Hooping Life

Eric

Burning Down the House

The X-Files

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Twin Peaks

Fringe

SEAL Team

The Return

Bosch: Legacy

Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's

Freedom from Despair

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Carnivàle

Tales from the Crypt

Goliath

The Deer Hunter

The Turning Point of Jim Malloy

Star Trek: Voyager

The Outer Limits

Do the Right Thing

Michael Cimino, God Bless America

Everwood

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Berlin '39

Dark Angel

The Last Full Measure

Teen Star Academy

The Thin Red Line

Press Gang

The Godfather Part III

Coming Out of the Ice

Deadly Weapon

Love's Long Journey

Touched by an Angel

Summer Song

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale

Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

Three Seconds

Hair