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.
190 movies · 30 shows
Judas' Gospel
2025·5.0
Death 4 Dinner
2025·0.0
Beyond the Rush
2024·0.0
The Goat
2024·2.0
Showdown at the Grand
2023·5.3
The Audition
2022·4.0
The Right to Bear Arms
2022·1.0
A Cloud So High
2022·0.0
Eye for Eye
2022·1.5
Michael Cimino, God Bless America
2022·7.4
Insight
2021·5.6
The Tribe Remembers
2020·0.0
Followed
2020·5.9
A Medicine for the Mind
2020·7.0
The Man with the Camera
2020·2.0
The Last Full Measure
2020·7.3
Hold On
2019·1.0
The Islands
2019·5.6
Spinning Dry
2019·0.0
Gates of Darkness
2019·5.7
Ovid and the Art of Love
2019·5.0
Down's Revenge
2019·5.0
Heavenly Deposit
2019·5.3
American Exit
2019·5.7
Six Children and One Grandfather
2019·5.7
Empire of the Sharks
2018·3.7
Torch
2018·5.5
Betrayed
2018·4.7
Mission Possible
2018·2.0
Sotto il Segno della Vittoria
2018·0.0
Easy Way Out
2018·0.0
Three Seconds
2017·6.9
Fake News
2017·2.0
Spreading Darkness
2017·4.5
The Neighborhood
2017·3.2
Vampire Wars
2017·3.6
Teen Star Academy
2017·7.3
Nephilim
2017·0.0
The Return
2017·8.0
American Romance
2016·4.2
Mata Hari
2016·5.0
In Dubious Battle
2016·5.8
The Black Dove
2016·0.0
Everglades
2016·2.0
Texas Heart
2016·4.7
Last Call at Murray's
2016·9.0
Sensory Perception
2015·0.0
Tales of Halloween
2015·5.7
We Will Be the World Champions
2015·3.6
Caffeinated
2015·6.0
Fort Bliss
2014·6.4
Demon Legacy
2014·4.6
The Hooping Life
2014·8.7
Bermuda Tentacles
2014·3.8
Bullet
2014·4.3
The Big Fat Stone
2014·3.2
7E
2013·3.8
Defending Santa
2013·6.4
A Star for Rose
2013·0.0
A Sierra Nevada Gunfight
2013·3.4
Alien Rising
2013·3.8
Awakened
2013·4.1
Real Gangsters
2013·2.8
Open Road
2013·5.0
Art of Submission
2012·4.2
Sins
2012·2.3
Summer Song
2012·7.0
Sweetwater
2012·0.0
The Orphan Killer
2011·3.8
Assassins' Code
2011·4.2
Hit List
2011·5.7
Bed & Breakfast
2010·4.0
Bereavement
2010·5.4
Dreamkiller
2010·1.5
Buffalo Bushido
2009·2.0
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009·7.0
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's
2009·8.0
Handsome Harry
2009·5.5
American Bully
2009·4.6
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
2009·6.9
First Time Long Time
2009·0.0
The Golden Boys
2008·5.6
The Coverup
2008·4.5
Boiler Maker
2008·0.0
From a Place of Darkness
2008·2.7
The Grift
2008·5.2
The Violent Kind
2008·2.0
Shortcut to Happiness
2007·5.6
No Destination
2007·0.0
Shut Up and Shoot!
2006·3.4
The Drop
2006·4.0
The Attic
2006·4.0
Kill Your Darlings
2006·6.1
The New World
2005·6.5
Love's Long Journey
2005·7.1
Confessions of a Pit Fighter
2005·4.2
Iowa
2005·3.5
Downtown: A Street Tale
2004·5.5
Admissions
2004·4.9
Freedom from Despair
2004·8.0
Sucker Free City
2004·5.9
Fallacy
2004·7.0
Alien Lockdown
2004·3.9
Easy Sex
2003·5.3
Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show
2003·0.0
Intoxicating
2003·5.2
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002·7.0
The Anarchist Cookbook
2002·4.9
Redemption of the Ghost
2002·9.0
Burning Down the House
2001·8.5
Dead Man's Run
2001·5.5
They Nest
2000·5.5
Christina's House
2000·4.7
The Virginian
2000·5.4
Summer of Sam
1999·6.5
The Jack Bull
1999·6.4
Nightworld: Lost Souls
1999·5.0
Message in a Bottle
1999·6.3
Frontline
1999·7.0
The Thin Red Line
1998·7.4
Club Vampire
1998·2.3
Centurion Force
1998·7.0
The Mouse
1997·9.0
Before Women Had Wings
1997·6.4
Last Cut
1997·5.7
A Scent of Paradise
1997·4.5
Hostile Intent
1997·6.2
Hollywood Safari
1997·4.2
Amnesia
1997·4.8
Little Boy Blue
1997·6.0
Where Truth Lies
1996·3.7
American Strays
1996·5.8
Firestorm
1996·5.1
Managua
1996·5.0
One Good Turn
1996·4.8
White Squall
1996·6.3
OP Center
1995·6.1
Carnosaur 2
1995·4.4
Deadly Weapon
1995·7.3
Red Scorpion 2
1995·4.4
The Crossing Guard
1995·6.0
The Dangerous
1995·3.6
The Takeover
1995·4.0
Twisted Fate
1995·4.3
Killing Obsession
1994·3.8
Shattered Image
1994·3.8
C.I.A. II: Target Alexa
1993·4.6
Berlin '39
1993·7.7
Flynn
1993·4.5
Daybreak
1993·5.3
Primary Motive
1992·7.0
Door Into Silence
1991·5.9
Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca)
1991·4.8
Hunting
1991·3.7
The Dark Tale
1991·6.3
Mountain of Diamonds
1991·6.2
Across Red Nights
1991·9.0
Buck at the Edge of Heaven
1991·6.3
The Godfather Part III
1990·7.4
Any Man's Death
1990·4.4
Do the Right Thing
1989·7.8
Date Rape
1988·0.0
The Beat
1988·6.2
Caribe
1987·3.4
Desperate
1987·9.0
Beauty and the Beast
1987·6.2
Hotel Colonial
1987·5.4
Soldier's Revenge
1986·5.5
Salvador
1986·7.0
The Tender Age
1986·6.0
Silent Witness
1985·4.7
Maria's Lovers
1984·6.0
Nairobi Affair
1984·5.6
Brady’s Escape
1983·5.7
Coming Out of the Ice
1982·7.4
The Amateur
1981·5.4
Cattle Annie and Little Britches
1981·6.5
Inside Moves
1980·6.4
The Onion Field
1979·6.0
Hair
1979·7.2
The Deer Hunter
1978·8.0
Eric
1975·9.0
The Sister in Law
1975·3.4
The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
1975·8.0
All the Kind Strangers
1974·6.0
The Killing Kind
1974·5.9
Steelyard Blues
1973·5.0
Bad Company
1972·6.4
Love Is a Carousel
1970·7.0
The Master Beater
1969·10.0