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

• 2025Death 4 Dinner — Robert Rutherford
• 2025Judas' Gospel — Joseph
• 2024Beyond the Rush — Edward Clayborn
• 2024The Goat — Julian Brown
• 2023Showdown at the Grand — Lucky
• 2022A Cloud So High — Gene 'Sackler' Sarling
• Bosch: Legacy — Allie Lewis
• 2022Eye for Eye — Brad Braddock
• 2022The Audition — Narrator (voice)
• 2022The Right to Bear Arms — Brutal Magnus
• 2021Insight — Frank
• 2020A Medicine for the Mind — Dr. E. Brown
• 2020Followed — Wallace Fleischer
• 2020The Last Full Measure — Kepper, Chauncy Kepper
• 2020The Man with the Camera — Epifano
• 2019American Exit — Gerald
• 2019Down's Revenge — Dr Sorkin
• 2019Gates of Darkness — Joseph
• 2019Heavenly Deposit — Donald
• 2019Hold On — Dr. Siedhoff
• 2019Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast — Thanks
• 2019Ovid and the Art of Love — Augustus
• 2019Six Children and One Grandfather — David McDoll
• 2019Spinning Dry — Frank Manghetti
• 2019The Islands — Henry Thornton
• 40 and Single — Stewart Temple
• 2018Betrayed — Mayor Alderman
• 2018Easy Way Out
• 2018Empire of the Sharks — Ian Fien
• 2018Mission Possible — Captain Ted Napoleon
• 2018Sotto il Segno della Vittoria
• 2018Torch — August Lewin
• 2017Fake News — President Wayne Walker
• 2017Nephilim — Father Samuel
• SEAL Team — Emmet Quinn
• 2017Spreading Darkness — Brett
• 2017Teen Star Academy
• 2017The Neighborhood — Vito Bello
• 2017The Return — Čovek u crnom odelu
• 2017Three Seconds — тренер сборной США Генри Айба
• 2017Vampire Wars — Stokes
• 2016American Romance — Emery Reed
• 2016Everglades
• Goliath — Mickey
• 2016In Dubious Battle — Dan
• 2016Last Call at Murray's — Bennett
• 2016Mata Hari — Edouard Clunet
• 2016Texas Heart — Carl
• 2016The Black Dove — Jake Williams
• The World Champions — Wiliam Jones
• 2015Sensory Perception — President of United Earth
• 2015Tales of Halloween — Capt. J.G. Zimmerman
• 2015We Will Be the World Champions — William Jones
• 2014Bermuda Tentacles — President Desteno
• 2014Bullet — Governor Johnson
• 2014Demon Legacy — The Codger
• 2014Fort Bliss — Mike Swann
• 2014The Big Fat Stone — Robert Tanninger
• 20137E — Paul
• 2013A Sierra Nevada Gunfight — Father Bill
• 2013A Star for Rose — Mort
• 2013Alien Rising — Manning
• 2013Awakened — Jack Winston
• 2013Defending Santa — Judge Willis
• 2013Open Road — Carl
• 2013Real Gangsters — Ted Roberts
• 2012Art of Submission — Harbin Rask
• 2012Sins — Father Karl
• 2012Summer Song — Jim
• 2012Sweetwater — Calvin Kabral
• 2011Assassins' Code — Arlo
• 2011Hit List — Walter Murphy
• 2011The Orphan Killer — Detective Walker
• 2010Bed & Breakfast — Mr. Harvey
• 2010Bereavement — Ted
• 2010Dreamkiller — Agent Barnes
• 2009American Bully — News Producer
• 2009Buffalo Bushido — Vendetti
• 2009First Time Long Time — Peter
• 2009Handsome Harry — Peter Rheems
• 2008Boiler Maker — J.J.
• Fringe — Sam Weiss
• 2008From a Place of Darkness — Vic
• 2008The Coverup — Thomas Thacker
• 2008The Golden Boys — Web Saunders
• 2008The Grift — William Bender
• 2008The Violent Kind — George Malloy
• 2007No Destination — Billy
• 2007Shortcut to Happiness — Johnny (uncredited)
• 2007The Attic — Graham Callan
• 2006Kill Your Darlings — Rock
• 2006Shut Up and Shoot! — Marty Pearlheimer
• 2006The Drop — Mr. Zero
• 2005Confessions of a Pit Fighter — McGee
• 2005Iowa — Irv Huffman
• 2005Love's Long Journey — Trent
• 2005The New World — Savage
• 2004Admissions — Harry Brighton
• 2004Alien Lockdown — Dr. Woodman
• 2004Downtown: A Street Tale — H2O
• 2004Fallacy — Heathcliff
• 2004Freedom from Despair — Narrator
• 2004Sucker Free City — Anderson Wade
• Carnivàle — Henry 'Hack' Scudder
• 2003Easy Sex — Frank Iverson
• 2003Intoxicating — William Shanley
• Everwood — Daniel Maxwell
• 2002Redemption of the Ghost
• 2002The Anarchist Cookbook — Johnny Red
• 2001Burning Down the House — Jake Seiling
• 2001Dead Man's Run — Carver
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent — Mark Farrell
• 2000Christina's House — James Tarling
• Dark Angel — Col. Donald Lydecker
• The District — Billy Nevins
• 2000The Virginian — Steve
• 2000They Nest — Jack Wald
• 1999Frontline — Captain Wolfgang Mueller
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Lucas Biggs
• 1999Message in a Bottle — Johnny Land
• 1999Nightworld: Lost Souls — Victor Robinson
• 1999Summer of Sam — Simon
• 1999The Jack Bull — Slater
• 1998Centurion Force — Neal
• 1998Club Vampire — Zero
• 1998Little Boy Blue — Ray West
• 1998The Thin Red Line — Sgt. Jack McCron
• 1997A Scent of Paradise — Padre Louis
• 1997Amnesia — Tim Bishop
• 1997Before Women Had Wings — Billy Jackson
• 1997Hollywood Safari — Deputy Rogers
• 1997Hostile Intent — Bear
• 1997Last Cut — Leo Kimball
• 1997The Mouse — Bruce 'The Mouse' Strauss
• 1996American Strays — Dwayne
• 1996Firestorm — Brinkman
• 1996Managua — Dennis
• 1996One Good Turn — Santapietro
• 1996Where Truth Lies — Dr. Ian Lazarre
• 1996White Squall — McCrea
• 1995Carnosaur 2 — Jack Reed
• 1995Deadly Weapon — Sanders
• 1995OP Center — Bob Herbert
• OP Center — Bob Herbert
• 1995Red Scorpion 2 — Andrew Kendrick
• Star Trek: Voyager — Captain Rudy Ransom
• 1995The Crossing Guard — Bobby
• 1995The Dangerous — Emile Lautrec
• The Outer Limits — Lucas
• 1995The Takeover — Greg
• 1995Twisted Fate — Drury
• Birdland
• 1994Killing Obsession — Albert
• 1994Shattered Image — David
• Touched by an Angel — Simon Miller
• 1993Berlin '39 — Wieland
• 1993C.I.A. II: Target Alexa — Franz Kluge
• 1993Daybreak — The President
• 1993Flynn — Joe Stromberg
• The X-Files — Henry Trondheim
• Walker, Texas Ranger — Sergeant Major Bart Hawkins
• 1992Primary Motive — Wallace Roberts
• 1991Across Red Nights — Paola
• 1991Buck at the Edge of Heaven — Wintrop
• 1991Door Into Silence — Melvin Devereux
• 1991Hunting — Michael Bergman
• 1991Mountain of Diamonds — Blaine
• Mountain of Diamonds — Blaine
• 1991Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca)
• The Burning Shore — Blaine
• 1991The Dark Tale — Roy Kramer
• 1990Any Man's Death — Leon Abrahams
• 1990The Godfather Part III — Father Andrew Hagen
• Twin Peaks — Detective Clark
• 1989Do the Right Thing — Clifton
• Press Gang — Boy
• Tales from the Crypt — Benny
• 1988Date Rape — Bernie Morton
• 1988The Beat — Frank Ellsworth
• 1987Beauty and the Beast — Beast/Prince
• 1987Caribe — Jeff Richardson
• 1987Desperate — Noah
• 1987Hotel Colonial — Marco Venieri
• 1986Salvador — John Cassady
• 1986Soldier's Revenge — Frank Morgan
• 1986The Tender Age — Tim Donovan
• 1985Silent Witness — Kevin Dunne
• 1984Maria's Lovers — Ivan Bibic
• 1984Nairobi Affair — Rick Cahill
• The Bill
• 1983Brady’s Escape — J.W. Brady
• American Playhouse — Tim Donovan
• 1982Coming Out of the Ice — Victor Herman
• 1981Cattle Annie and Little Britches — Bittercreek Newcombe
• 1981The Amateur — Charles Heller
• 1980Inside Moves — Roary
• 1979Hair — Claude Hooper Bukowski
• 1979The Onion Field — Karl Hettinger
• 1978The Deer Hunter — Steven Pushkov
• Gibbsville — Jim Malloy
• 1975Eric — Eric Swensen
• 1975The Sister in Law — Robert Strong, Original Music Composer
• 1975The Turning Point of Jim Malloy — Jim Malloy
• 1974All the Kind Strangers — Peter
• 1974The Killing Kind — Terry Lambert
• 1973Steelyard Blues — Kid
• ABC Afterschool Special — Bernie Morton
• 1972Bad Company — Loney
• 1970Love Is a Carousel — Boy Friend
• 1969The Master Beater — Rocco
• The Rebel — Al
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Eric Swensen
• Melodies in the Forest
• Spychosis — Jim Patterson

Appearances as themselves (9)

• 2022Michael Cimino, God Bless America — Self
• 2020The Tribe Remembers — Self
• 2015Caffeinated — Himself
• 2014The Hooping Life — Himself
• 2009Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later — Self
• 2009Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's — Self
• 2009I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale — Self
• 2003Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show — Self
• 2002Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick — Self