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John Savage

John Savage

Birthday: 1949-08-25 | Place of Birth: Old Bethpage, Long Island, New York, USA

John Savage (born John Youngs) 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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
A Cloud So High

as    Gene 'Sackler' Sarling

2022
2021
Insight

as    Frank

2020
The Last Full Measure

as    Kepper

2020
Followed

as    Wallace Fleischer

2019
Hold On

as    Dr. Siedhoff

2019
Gates of Darkness

as    Joseph

2017
Spreading Darkness

as    Brett

2017
Empire of the Sharks

as    Ian Fien

2017
The Neighborhood

as    Vito Bello

2016
Texas Heart

as    Carl

2016
American Romance

as    Emery Reed

2015
Sensory Perception

as    President of United Earth

2014
Bullet

as    Governor Johnson

2014
The Hooping Life

as    Himself

2014
Fort Bliss

as    Mike Swann

2014
Demon Legacy

as    The Codger

2013
Open Road

as    Carl

2013
A Sierra Nevada Gunfight

as    Father Bill

2013
Awakened

as    Jack Winston

2013
Alien Rising

as    Manning

2012
Art of Submission

as    Harbin Rask

2012
Summer Song

as    Jim

2011
Assassins' Code

as    Arlo

2011
The Orphan Killer

as    Detective Walker

2011
Hit List

as    Walter Murphy

2010
Bed & Breakfast

as    Mr. Harvey

2010
Bereavement

as    Ted