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.
Known For

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

The X-Files

Fringe

Everwood

Star Trek: Voyager

SEAL Team

Twin Peaks
All Movies (193)
- Judas' Gospel2025 · as Joseph
- Death 4 Dinner2025 · as Robert Rutherford
- Beyond the Rush2024 · as Edward Clayborn
- The Goat2024 · as Julian Brown
- Showdown at the Grand2023 · as Lucky
- The Audition2022 · as Narrator (voice)
- The Right to Bear Arms2022 · as Brutal Magnus
- A Cloud So High2022 · as Gene 'Sackler' Sarling
- Eye for Eye2022 · as Brad Braddock
- Michael Cimino, God Bless America2022 · as Self
- Insight2021 · as Frank
- The Tribe Remembers2020 · as Self
- Followed2020 · as Wallace Fleischer
- A Medicine for the Mind2020 · as Dr. E. Brown
- The Man with the Camera2020 · as Epifano
- The Last Full Measure2020 · as Kepper
- The Last Full Measure2020 · as Chauncy Kepper
- Hold On2019 · as Dr. Siedhoff
- The Islands2019 · as Henry Thornton
- Spinning Dry2019 · as Frank Manghetti
- Gates of Darkness2019 · as Joseph
- Ovid and the Art of Love2019 · as Augustus
- Down's Revenge2019 · as Dr Sorkin
- Heavenly Deposit2019 · as Donald
- American Exit2019 · as Gerald
- Six Children and One Grandfather2019 · as David McDoll
- Torch2018 · as August Lewin
- Betrayed2018 · as Mayor Alderman
- Mission Possible2018 · as Captain Ted Napoleon
- Sotto il Segno della Vittoria2018
- Easy Way Out2018
- Three Seconds2017 · as тренер сборной США Генри Айба
- Fake News2017 · as President Wayne Walker
- Spreading Darkness2017 · as Brett
- The Neighborhood2017 · as Vito Bello
- Vampire Wars2017 · as Stokes
- Empire of the Sharks2017 · as Ian Fien
- Teen Star Academy2017
- Nephilim2017 · as Father Samuel
- The Return2017 · as Čovek u crnom odelu
- American Romance2016 · as Emery Reed
- Mata Hari2016 · as Edouard Clunet
- In Dubious Battle2016 · as Dan
- The Black Dove2016 · as Jake Williams
- Everglades2016
- Texas Heart2016 · as Carl
- Last Call at Murray's2016 · as Bennett
- Sensory Perception2015 · as President of United Earth
- Tales of Halloween2015 · as Capt. J.G. Zimmerman
- We Will Be the World Champions2015 · as William Jones
- Caffeinated2015 · as Himself
- Fort Bliss2014 · as Mike Swann
- Demon Legacy2014 · as The Codger
- The Hooping Life2014 · as Himself
- Bermuda Tentacles2014 · as President Desteno
- Bullet2014 · as Governor Johnson
- The Big Fat Stone2014 · as Robert Tanninger
- 7E2013 · as Paul
- Defending Santa2013 · as Judge Willis
- A Star for Rose2013 · as Mort
- A Sierra Nevada Gunfight2013 · as Father Bill
- Alien Rising2013 · as Manning
- Awakened2013 · as Jack Winston
- Real Gangsters2013 · as Ted Roberts
- Open Road2013 · as Carl
- Art of Submission2012 · as Harbin Rask
- Sins2012 · as Father Karl
- Summer Song2012 · as Jim
- Sweetwater2012 · as Calvin Kabral
- The Orphan Killer2011 · as Detective Walker
- Assassins' Code2011 · as Arlo
- Hit List2011 · as Walter Murphy
- Bed & Breakfast2010 · as Mr. Harvey
- Bereavement2010 · as Ted
- Dreamkiller2010 · as Agent Barnes
- Buffalo Bushido2009 · as Vendetti
- Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later2009 · as Self
- Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1970's2009 · as Self
- Handsome Harry2009 · as Peter Rheems
- American Bully2009 · as News Producer
- I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale2009 · as Self
- First Time Long Time2009 · as Peter
- The Golden Boys2008 · as Web Saunders
- The Coverup2008 · as Thomas Thacker
- Boiler Maker2008 · as J.J.
- From a Place of Darkness2008 · as Vic
- The Grift2008 · as William Bender
- The Violent Kind2008 · as George Malloy
- Shortcut to Happiness2007 · as Johnny (uncredited)
- No Destination2007 · as Billy
- Shut Up and Shoot!2006 · as Marty Pearlheimer
- The Drop2006 · as Mr. Zero
- The Attic2006 · as Graham Callan
- Kill Your Darlings2006 · as Rock
- The New World2005 · as Savage
- Love's Long Journey2005 · as Trent
- Confessions of a Pit Fighter2005 · as McGee
- Iowa2005 · as Irv Huffman
- Downtown: A Street Tale2004 · as H2O
- Admissions2004 · as Harry Brighton
- Freedom from Despair2004 · as Narrator
- Sucker Free City2004 · as Anderson Wade
- Fallacy2004 · as Heathcliff
- Alien Lockdown2004 · as Dr. Woodman
- Easy Sex2003 · as Frank Iverson
- Making 'Carnivàle': The Show Behind the Show2003
- Intoxicating2003 · as William Shanley
- Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick2002 · as Self
- The Anarchist Cookbook2002 · as Johnny Red
- Redemption of the Ghost2002
- Burning Down the House2001 · as Jake Seiling
- Dead Man's Run2001 · as Carver
- They Nest2000 · as Jack Wald
- Christina's House2000 · as James Tarling
- The Virginian2000 · as Steve
- Summer of Sam1999 · as Simon
- The Jack Bull1999 · as Slater
- Nightworld: Lost Souls1999 · as Victor Robinson
- Message in a Bottle1999 · as Johnny Land
- Frontline1999 · as Captain Wolfgang Mueller
- The Thin Red Line1998 · as Sgt. Jack McCron
- Club Vampire1998 · as Zero
- Centurion Force1998 · as Neal
- The Mouse1997 · as Bruce 'The Mouse' Strauss
- Before Women Had Wings1997 · as Billy Jackson
- Last Cut1997 · as Leo Kimball
- A Scent of Paradise1997 · as Padre Louis
- Hostile Intent1997 · as Bear
- Hollywood Safari1997 · as Deputy Rogers
- Amnesia1997 · as Tim Bishop
- Little Boy Blue1997 · as Ray West
- Where Truth Lies1996 · as Dr. Ian Lazarre
- American Strays1996 · as Dwayne
- Firestorm1996 · as Brinkman
- Managua1996 · as Dennis
- One Good Turn1996 · as Santapietro
- White Squall1996 · as McCrea
- OP Center1995 · as Bob Herbert
- Carnosaur 21995 · as Jack Reed
- Deadly Weapon1995 · as Sanders
- Red Scorpion 21995 · as Andrew Kendrick
- The Crossing Guard1995 · as Bobby
- The Dangerous1995 · as Emile Lautrec
- The Takeover1995 · as Greg
- Twisted Fate1995 · as Drury
- Killing Obsession1994 · as Albert
- Shattered Image1994 · as David
- C.I.A. II: Target Alexa1993 · as Franz Kluge
- Berlin '391993 · as Wieland
- Flynn1993 · as Joe Stromberg
- Daybreak1993 · as The President
- Primary Motive1992 · as Wallace Roberts
- Door Into Silence1991 · as Melvin Devereux
- Ottobre rosa all'Arbat (Vacanze a Mosca)1991
- Hunting1991 · as Michael Bergman
- The Dark Tale1991 · as Roy Kramer
- Mountain of Diamonds1991 · as Blaine
- Across Red Nights1991 · as Paola
- Buck at the Edge of Heaven1991 · as Wintrop
- The Godfather Part III1990 · as Father Andrew Hagen
- Any Man's Death1990 · as Leon Abrahams
- Do the Right Thing1989 · as Clifton
- Date Rape1988 · as Bernie Morton
- The Beat1988 · as Frank Ellsworth
- Caribe1987 · as Jeff Richardson
- Desperate1987 · as Noah
- Beauty and the Beast1987 · as Beast/Prince
- Hotel Colonial1987 · as Marco Venieri
- Soldier's Revenge1986 · as Frank Morgan
- Salvador1986 · as John Cassady
- The Tender Age1986 · as Tim Donovan
- Silent Witness1985 · as Kevin Dunne
- Maria's Lovers1984 · as Ivan Bibic
- Nairobi Affair1984 · as Rick Cahill
- Brady’s Escape1983 · as J.W. Brady
- Coming Out of the Ice1982 · as Victor Herman
- The Amateur1981 · as Charles Heller
- Cattle Annie and Little Britches1981 · as Bittercreek Newcombe
- Inside Moves1980 · as Roary
- The Onion Field1979 · as Karl Hettinger
- Hair1979 · as Claude Hooper Bukowski
- The Deer Hunter1978 · as Steven Pushkov
- Eric1975 · as Eric Swensen
- The Sister in Law1975 · as Robert Strong
- The Turning Point of Jim Malloy1975 · as Jim Malloy
- All the Kind Strangers1974 · as Peter
- The Killing Kind1974 · as Terry Lambert
- Steelyard Blues1973 · as Kid
- Bad Company1972 · as Loney
- Love Is a Carousel1970 · as Boy Friend
- The Master Beater1969 · as Rocco
- Spychosis— · as Jim Patterson
- Melodies in the Forest—
All TV Shows (29)
- Bosch: Legacy2022 · as Allie Lewis
- 40 and Single2018 · as Stewart Temple
- SEAL Team2017 · as Emmet Quinn
- Goliath2016 · as Mickey
- The World Champions2016 · as Wiliam Jones
- Fringe2008 · as Sam Weiss
- Carnivàle2003 · as Henry 'Hack' Scudder
- Everwood2002 · as Daniel Maxwell
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent2001 · as Mark Farrell
- The District2000 · as Billy Nevins
- Dark Angel2000 · as Col. Donald Lydecker
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit1999 · as Lucas Biggs
- The Outer Limits1995 · as Lucas
- OP Center1995 · as Bob Herbert
- Star Trek: Voyager1995 · as Captain Rudy Ransom
- Touched by an Angel1994 · as Simon Miller
- Birdland1994
- The X-Files1993 · as Henry Trondheim
- Walker, Texas Ranger1993 · as Sergeant Major Bart Hawkins
- Mountain of Diamonds1991 · as Blaine
- The Burning Shore1991 · as Blaine
- Twin Peaks1990 · as Detective Clark
- Tales from the Crypt1989 · as Benny
- Press Gang1989 · as Boy
- The Bill1984
- Gibbsville1976 · as Jim Malloy
- ABC Afterschool Special1972 · as Bernie Morton
- The Rebel1959 · as Al
- Hallmark Hall of Fame1951 · as Eric Swensen