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.
Acting
Movie
The Godfather Part III
as Father Andrew Hagen
1990
Movie
The Deer Hunter
as Steven Pushkov
1978
TV
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Lucas Biggs
1999
TV
The X-Files
as Henry Trondheim
1993
Movie
The Thin Red Line
as Sgt. Jack McCron
1998
TV
Fringe
as Sam Weiss
2008
TV
Twin Peaks
as Detective Clark
1990
Movie
Do the Right Thing
as Clifton
1989
TV
SEAL Team
as Emmet Quinn
2017
Movie
The New World
as Savage
2005
TV
Star Trek: Voyager
as Captain Rudy Ransom
1995
TV
Tales from the Crypt
as Benny
1989
Movie
Message in a Bottle
as Johnny Land
1999
Movie
Hair
as Claude Hooper Bukowski
1979
TV
Walker, Texas Ranger
as Sergeant Major Bart Hawkins
1993
Movie
Summer of Sam
as Simon
1999
Movie
Tales of Halloween
as Capt. J.G. Zimmerman
2015
TV
Dark Angel
as Col. Donald Lydecker
2000
Movie
The Last Full Measure
as Kepper
2020
Movie
The Last Full Measure
as Chauncy Kepper
2020
TV
Goliath
as Mickey
2016
TV
Carnivàle
as Henry 'Hack' Scudder
2003
Movie
Salvador
as John Cassady
1986
Movie
White Squall
as McCrea
1996
