John Savage
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.
221 acting credits
Acting · 221
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
The X-Files
1993
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001
Fringe
2008
Star Trek: Voyager
1995
SEAL Team
2017
Twin Peaks
1990
Everwood
2002
Touched by an Angel
1994
The Outer Limits
1995
Tales from the Crypt
1989
The District
2000
Walker, Texas Ranger
1993
Goliath
2016
Dark Angel
2000
Bosch: Legacy
2022
The Bill
1984
The Godfather Part III
1990
ABC Afterschool Special
1972
The Rebel
1959
Carnivàle
2003
Press Gang
1989
The Deer Hunter
1978
The Thin Red Line
1998
Mountain of Diamonds
1991
Do the Right Thing
1989
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Gibbsville
1976
Hair
1979
Message in a Bottle
1999
White Squall
1996
The Last Full Measure
2020
The New World
2005
Real Gangsters
2013
Maria's Lovers
1984
Summer of Sam
1999
In Dubious Battle
2016
Salvador
1986
Berlin '39
1993
The Crossing Guard
1995
Birdland
1994
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009
Shortcut to Happiness
2007
The Onion Field
1979
The Jack Bull
1999
Bullet
2014
Three Seconds
2017
OP Center
1995
Daybreak
1993
The Burning Shore
1991
Bereavement
2010
Little Boy Blue
1997
Tales of Halloween
2015
Kill Your Darlings
2006
Bad Company
1972
Fort Bliss
2014
Followed
2020
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
1981
The World Champions
2016
Empire of the Sharks
2017
The Coverup
2008
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002
They Nest
2000
Last Cut
1997
Open Road
2013
40 and Single
2018
American Strays
1996
Last Call at Murray's
2016
Amnesia
1997
Hit List
2011
The Attic
2006
Steelyard Blues
1973
Handsome Harry
2009
Bermuda Tentacles
2014
The Amateur
1981
Love's Long Journey
2005
Insight
2021
Sucker Free City
2004
Inside Moves
1980
Gates of Darkness
2019
Carnosaur 2
1995
Bed & Breakfast
2010
Desperate
1987
C.I.A. II: Target Alexa
1993
The Virginian
2000
We Will Be the World Champions
2015
Mountain of Diamonds
1991
Easy Sex
2003
The Hooping Life
2014
Buck at the Edge of Heaven
1991
Red Scorpion 2
1995
Showdown at the Grand
2023
Nephilim
2017
Defending Santa
2013
Sins
2012
Art of Submission
2012
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
2009
The Anarchist Cookbook
2002
The Neighborhood
2017
Caribe
1987
Confessions of a Pit Fighter
2005
Before Women Had Wings
1997
The Dangerous
1995
The Grift
2008
The Goat
2024
All the Kind Strangers
1974
Eric
1975
Admissions
2004
Managua
1996
Hotel Colonial
1987
Betrayed
2018
Alien Lockdown
2004
OP Center
1995
The Audition
2022
Beauty and the Beast
1987
Burning Down the House
2001
American Exit
2019
Heavenly Deposit
2019
Alien Rising
2013
Christina's House
2000
The Golden Boys
2008
From a Place of Darkness
2008
The Orphan Killer
2011
One Good Turn
1996
Downtown: A Street Tale
2004
Hostile Intent
1997
Silent Witness
1985
Vampire Wars
2017
Door Into Silence
1991
The Tender Age
1986
7E
2013
Buffalo Bushido
2009
Texas Heart
2016
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
1975
Flynn
1993
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009
Nairobi Affair
1984
Shattered Image
1994
Iowa
2005
Caffeinated
2015
The Killing Kind
1974
Twisted Fate
1995
Assassins' Code
2011
Judas' Gospel
2025
Torch
2018
Dead Man's Run
2001
The Sister in Law
1975
Killing Obsession
1994
Awakened
2013
Michael Cimino, God Bless America
2022
The Islands
2019
The Drop
2006
Everglades
2016
Eye for Eye
2022
Beyond the Rush
2024
American Romance
2016
Across Red Nights
1991
Club Vampire
1998
Coming Out of the Ice
1982
Fake News
2017
Spychosis
—
A Star for Rose
2013
The Right to Bear Arms
2022
Redemption of the Ghost
2002
Hunting
1991
American Bully
2009
Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
2003
Spreading Darkness
2017
Primary Motive
1992
Centurion Force
1998
Mission Possible
2018
Firestorm
1996
Shut Up and Shoot!
2006
Soldier's Revenge
1986
The Violent Kind
2008
Frontline
1999
Summer Song
2012
The Takeover
1995
The Black Dove
2016
Nightworld: Lost Souls
1999
Where Truth Lies
1996
Sensory Perception
2015
Fallacy
2004
Hold On
2019
The Tribe Remembers
2020
Spinning Dry
2019
Ovid and the Art of Love
2019
Hollywood Safari
1997
Brady’s Escape
1983
The Man with the Camera
2020
The Beat
1988
The Return
2017
Any Man's Death
1990
Freedom from Despair
2004
Demon Legacy
2014
Six Children and One Grandfather
2019
A Sierra Nevada Gunfight
2013
Sweetwater
2012
Mata Hari
2016
Boiler Maker
2008
A Scent of Paradise
1997
Date Rape
1988
Deadly Weapon
1995
No Destination
2007
Down's Revenge
2019
Teen Star Academy
2017
The Dark Tale
1991
The Mouse
1997
Melodies in the Forest
—
The Big Fat Stone
2014
Intoxicating
2003
The Master Beater
1969
A Cloud So High
2022
First Time Long Time
2009
Death 4 Dinner
2025
Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca)
1991
Dreamkiller
2010
Love Is a Carousel
1970
Sotto il Segno della Vittoria
2018
Easy Way Out
2018
A Medicine for the Mind
2020