Personal Info
Birth date
1949-08-25 (75 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Old Bethpage, New York, USA
Also known as
John Smeallie Youngs
جان سوج
John Savage
Biography
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.
Filmography
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
7.9
Overview:
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.Law & Order: Criminal Intent
7.565
Overview:
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.Star Trek: Voyager
7.795
Overview:
Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.The X-Files
8.4
Overview:
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.ABC Afterschool Special
6.429
Overview:
Dramatically presented situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers. Several episodes were either in animated form or presented as documentaries. Topics included illiteracy, substance abuse and teenage pregnancy.Fringe
8.134
Overview:
FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.SEAL Team
8.042
Overview:
Military drama following the professional and personal lives of the most elite unit of Navy SEALs as they train, plan and execute the most dangerous, high stakes missions our country can ask of them.Twin Peaks
8.3
Overview:
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.Goliath
7.572
Overview:
Once a powerful lawyer, Billy McBride is now burned out and washed up, spending more time in a bar than a courtroom. When he reluctantly agrees to pursue a wrongful death lawsuit against the biggest client of Cooperman & McBride, the massive law firm he helped create, Billy and his ragtag team uncover a vast and deadly conspiracy, pitting them all in a life or death trial against the ultimate Goliath.Walker, Texas Ranger
7
Overview:
Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy" Trivette is an ex-football player who bases his crime-solving methods on reason and uses computers and cellular phones. Alex Cahill is the Assistant DA who shares a mutual attraction with Walker, but often disagrees with his unorthodox approach to law enforcement.Touched by an Angel
7.2
Overview:
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.Tales from the Crypt
7.949
Overview:
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?The Rebel
5.1
Overview:
After the end of the Civil War, a former Confederate Army private roams the Wild West, and, as a rogue drifter, gets involved in helping out various settlers threatened by various bad guys... THE REBEL is a 76-episode American western television series starring Nick Adams that debuted on the ABC network from 1959 to 1961. The Rebel was one of the few Goodson-Todman Productions outside of their game show ventures. Beginning in December 2011, The Rebel reruns began to air Saturday mornings on Me-TV.Dark Angel
7.519
Overview:
Super soldier Max Guevera tries to live a normal life in post-apocalyptic Seattle while eluding capture by government agents from the covert biotech facility she escaped from as a child and searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters who have dispersed after escape.Everwood
7.5
Overview:
After the death of his wife, world-class neurosurgeon Dr. Andrew Brown leaves Manhattan and moves his family to the small town of Everwood, Colorado. There he becomes a small-town doctor and learns parenting on the fly as he raises his talented but resentful 15-year-old son Ephram and his 9-year-old daughter Delia.Bosch: Legacy
7.992
Overview:
Bosch is now making a living as a private investigator two years after he quit the LAPD and finds himself working with one time enemy and top-notch attorney Honey “Money” Chandler. Meanwhile, Bosch's daughter Maddie is venturing into the world of the LAPD.The Outer Limits
7.722
Overview:
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.The Bill
6.7
Overview:
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.The District
6.8
Overview:
The District is a television police drama which aired on CBS from October 7, 2000 to May 1, 2004. The show followed the work and personal life of the chief of Washington, D.C.'s Police Department.Carnivàle
7.906
Overview:
Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.Gibbsville
NYR
Overview:
Gibbsville is an American drama television series starring John Savage and Gig Young that aired on NBC from November 11 to December 30, 1976. The series centered on the activities of two reporters for a newspaper in a small Pennsylvania town in the 1940s.Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Overview:
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.The Godfather Part III
7.417
Overview:
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.Press Gang
7.5
Overview:
The activities of the staff at The Junior Gazette, a children's weekly newspaper produced by a group of school pupils.OP Center
5
Overview:
Paul Hood is the newly appointed director of the OP Center, a special agency gathering a wide variety of experts monitoring international crisis. On his first day on the job, nuclear missiles are stolen from the former Soviet Union by terrorists. The team must find out who did it, why, and most importantly, where they are heading so they can retrieve themThe World Champions
1
Overview:
A story about four pioneers who fathered the “Yugoslav school of basketball” and whose merit is the development of this sport in Europe. They are Nebojša Popović, Borisav Stanković, Radomir Šaper and Aleksandar Nikolić. The central event is the crucial game at World Cup 1970 between Yugoslavia and the United States. From the point of view of the main character, Nebojša Popović, we follow the growth and life path of enthusiasts, whose professional work, ideas, and efforts made their major dream come true, the first gold medal for Yugoslavia in world championships.40 and Single
9
Overview:
A bisexual, mixed race, single bridal fashion designer maneuvers life and business in post colonial Africa.The Burning Shore
NYR
Overview:
France, 1915. Young and radiantly beautiful Centaine de Thiry is the happiest woman in the world: in a few more hours she will be married to pilot Michael Courteney, the love of her life. But fate has it otherwise: Michael is shot down in a reconnaissance plane shortly before his wedding. Life has lost its meaning for Centaine. When the young woman realizes soon afterwards that she is expecting a baby, her zest for live is revived. She decides to give birth to the child in South Africa, the home country of her deceased fiancé.Acting
TBASpychosis as Jim Patterson
2025Judas' Gospel as Joseph
2025Death 4 Dinner as Robert Rutherford
2024Beyond the Rush as Edward Clayborn
2023The Goat as Unknown
2023Showdown at the Grand as Lucky
2022The Audition as Narrator (voice)
2022The Right to Bear Arms as Brutal Magnus
2022Bosch: Legacy (1 Episode) as Allie Lewis
2022A Cloud So High as Gene 'Sackler' Sarling
2022Eye for Eye as Brad Braddock
2022Michael Cimino, God Bless America as Self
2021Insight as Frank
2020The Tribe Remembers as Self
2020Followed as Wallace Fleischer
2020The Man with the Camera as Epifano
2020The Last Full Measure as Kepper, Chauncy Kepper
2019Hold On as Dr. Siedhoff
2019The Islands as Henry Thornton
2019Spinning Dry as Frank Manghetti
2019Gates of Darkness as Joseph
2019Ovid and the Art of Love as Augustus
2019Down's Revenge as Dr Sorkin
2019Heavenly Deposit as Donald
2019American Exit as Gerald
2019Six Children and One Grandfather as David McDoll
201840 and Single (6 Episodes) as Stewart Temple
2018Torch as August Lewin
2018Betrayed as Mayor Alderman
2018Mission Possible as Captain Ted Napoleon
2018Sotto il Segno della Vittoria as Unknown
2018Easy Way Out as Unknown
2017Three Seconds as тренер сборной США Генри Айба
2017Fake News as President Wayne Walker
2017Spreading Darkness as Brett
2017SEAL Team (3 Episodes) as Emmet Quinn
2017The Neighborhood as Vito Bello
2017Vampire Wars as Stokes
2017Empire of the Sharks as Ian Fien
2017Teen Star Academy as Unknown
2017Nephilim as Father Samuel
2017The Return as Čovek u crnom odelu
2016American Romance as Emery Reed
2016Mata Hari as Edouard Clunet
2016Goliath (1 Episode) as Unknown
2016In Dubious Battle as Dan
2016The Black Dove as Jake Williams
2016Everglades as Unknown
2016Texas Heart as Carl
2016The World Champions (12 Episodes) as Wiliam Jones
2016Last Call at Murray's as Bennett
2015Sensory Perception as President of United Earth
2015Tales of Halloween as Capt. J.G. Zimmerman
2015We Will Be the World Champions as William Jones
2015Caffeinated as Himself
2014Fort Bliss as Mike Swann
2014Demon Legacy as The Codger
2014The Hooping Life as Himself
2014Bermuda Tentacles as President Desteno
2014Bullet as Governor Johnson
2014The Big Fat Stone as Robert Tanninger
20137E as Paul
2013Defending Santa as Judge Willis
2013A Star for Rose as Mort
2013A Sierra Nevada Gunfight as Father Bill
2013Alien Rising as Manning
2013Awakened as Jack Winston
2013Real Gangsters as Ted Roberts
2013Open Road as Carl
2012Art of Submission as Harbin Rask
2012Sins as Father Karl
2012Summer Song as Jim
2012Sweetwater as Calvin Kabral
2011The Orphan Killer as Detective Walker
2011Assassins' Code as Arlo
2011Hit List as Walter Murphy
2010Bed & Breakfast as Mr. Harvey
2010Bereavement as Ted
2010Dreamkiller as Agent Barnes
2009Buffalo Bushido as Vendetti
2009Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later as Self
2009Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's as Self
2009Handsome Harry as Peter Rheems
2009American Bully as News Producer
2009I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale as Self
2008The Golden Boys as Web Saunders
2008The Coverup as Thomas Thacker
2008Fringe (1 Episode) as Sam Weiss
2008Boiler Maker as J.J.
2008From a Place of Darkness as Vic
2008The Grift as William Bender
2008The Violent Kind as George Malloy
2007No Destination as Billy
2006Shut Up and Shoot! as Marty Pearlheimer
2006The Drop as Mr. Zero
2006The Attic as Graham Callan
2006Kill Your Darlings as Rock
2005The New World as Savage
2005Love's Long Journey as Trent
2005Confessions of a Pit Fighter as McGee
2005Iowa as Irv Huffman
2004Downtown: A Street Tale as H2O
2004Admissions as Harry Brighton
2004Freedom from Despair as Narrator
2004Sucker Free City as Anderson Wade
2004Fallacy as Heathcliff
2004Alien Lockdown as Dr. Woodman
2003Easy Sex as Frank Iverson
2003Carnivàle (5 Episodes) as Henry 'Hack' Scudder
2003Shortcut to Happiness as Johnny
2003Intoxicating as William Shanley
2002Everwood (2 Episodes) as Daniel Maxwell
2002Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick as Self
2002The Anarchist Cookbook as Johnny Red
2002Redemption of the Ghost as Unknown
2001Law & Order: Criminal Intent (1 Episode) as Mark Farrell
2001Burning Down the House as Jake Seiling
2001Dead Man's Run as Carver
2000The District (1 Episode) as Billy Nevins
2000Dark Angel (21 Episodes) as Col. Donald Lydecker
2000They Nest as Jack Wald
2000Christina's House as James Tarling
2000The Virginian as Steve
1999Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 Episode) as Lucas Biggs
1999Summer of Sam as Simon
1999The Jack Bull as Slater
1999Nightworld: Lost Souls as Victor Robinson
1999Message in a Bottle as Johnny Land
1999Frontline as Captain Wolfgang Mueller
1998The Thin Red Line as Sgt. Jack McCron
1998Club Vampire as Zero
1998Centurion Force as Neal
1997Before Women Had Wings as Billy Jackson
1997Last Cut as Leo Kimball
1997A Scent of Paradise as Padre Louis
1997Hostile Intent as Bear
1997Hollywood Safari as Deputy Rogers
1997Amnesia as Tim Bishop
1997Little Boy Blue as Ray West
1996Where Truth Lies as Dr. Ian Lazarre
1996American Strays as Dwayne
1996Firestorm as Brinkman
1996Managua as Dennis
1996One Good Turn as Santapietro
1996White Squall as McCrea
1995The Outer Limits (1 Episode) as Lucas
1995OP Center as Bob Herbert
1995OP Center (2 Episodes) as Bob Herbert
1995Carnosaur 2 as Jack Reed
1995Deadly Weapon as Sanders
1995Red Scorpion 2 as Andrew Kendrick
1995The Crossing Guard as Bobby
1995The Dangerous as Emile Lautrec
1995Star Trek: Voyager (2 Episodes) as Captain Rudy Ransom
1995The Takeover as Greg
1995Twisted Fate as Drury
1994Touched by an Angel (1 Episode) as Simon Miller
1994Killing Obsession as Albert
1994Shattered Image as David
1994Birdland (1 Episode) as Unknown
1993C.I.A. II: Target Alexa as Franz Kluge
1993The X-Files (1 Episode) as Henry Trondheim
1993Berlin '39 as Wieland
1993Flynn as Joe Stromberg
1993Daybreak as The President
1993Walker, Texas Ranger (1 Episode) as Sergeant Major Bart Hawkins
1992Primary Motive as Wallace Roberts
1991Door to Silence as Melvin Devereux
1991Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca) as Unknown
1991Hunting as Michael Bergman
1991The Dark Tale as Roy Kramer
1991Mountain of Diamonds as Blaine
1991Across Red Nights as Paola
1991Great Expectations (6 Episodes) as Urchin
1991Buck at the Edge of Heaven as Wintrop
1991The Burning Shore (4 Episodes) as Blaine
1990The Godfather Part III as Father Andrew Hagen
1990Any Man's Death as Leon Abrahams
1990Twin Peaks (1 Episode) as Detective Clark
1989Do the Right Thing as Clifton
1989Tales from the Crypt (1 Episode) as Benny
1989Press Gang (1 Episode) as Boy
1988Date Rape as Bernie Morton
1988The Beat as Frank Ellsworth
1987Caribe as Jeff Richardson
1987Desperate as Noah
1987Beauty and the Beast as Beast/Prince
1987Hotel Colonial as Marco Venieri
1986Soldier's Revenge as Frank Morgan
1986Salvador as John Cassady
1986The Tender Age as Tim Donovan
1985Silent Witness as Kevin Dunne
1984The Bill (1 Episode) as Unknown
1984Maria's Lovers as Ivan Bibic
1984Nairobi Affair as Rick Cahill
1983Brady’s Escape as J.W. Brady
1982Coming Out of the Ice as Victor Herman
1981The Amateur as Charles Heller
1981Cattle Annie and Little Britches as Bittercreek Newcombe
1980Inside Moves as Roary
1979The Onion Field as Karl Hettinger
1979Hair as Claude Hooper Bukowski
1978The Deer Hunter as Steven Pushkov
1976Gibbsville (13 Episodes) as Jim Malloy
1975Eric as Eric Swensen
1975The Turning Point of Jim Malloy as Jim Malloy
1974All the Kind Strangers as Peter
1974The Sister in Law as Robert Strong
1974The Killing Kind as Terry Lambert
1973Steelyard Blues as Kid
1972Bad Company as Loney
1972ABC Afterschool Special (1 Episode) as Bernie Morton
1970Love Is a Carousel as Boy Friend
1969The Master Beater as Rocco
1959The Rebel (1 Episode) as Al
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Eric Swensen
Crew
2019Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast ... Thanks
Sound
1974The Sister in Law ... Original Music Composer