John Savage is an American film actor, producer

Film producer

A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

, production manager, and composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

.

Acting career

His first major film role was as Steven in the 1978 film, The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter is a 1978 drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Russian American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Savage, John Cazale, and George Dzundza...

, the story of a group of Russian American

Russian American

Russian Americans are primarily Americans who traces their ancestry to Russia. The definition can be applied to recent Russian immigrants to the United States, as well as to settlers of 19th century Russian settlements in northwestern America which includes today's California, Alaska and...

 steel workers during the Vietnam War

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

. He also had a lead role in 1979's The Onion Field

The Onion Field

The Onion Field is a 1973 nonfiction book by Joseph Wambaugh, a sergeant for the Los Angeles Police Department, chronicling the kidnapping of two plainclothes LAPD officers by a pair of criminals during an evening traffic stop and the subsequent murder of Officer Ian James Campbell.- Crime :On the...

, the true story of policeman Karl Hettinger's personal struggle after witnessing the murder of his partner.

One of his most famous roles was as Claude Bukowski in the film Hair

Hair (film)

Hair is a 1979 American film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical of the same name about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center...

(1979). He had a brief role in Terrence Malick

Terrence Malick

Terrence Frederick Malick is a U.S. film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning almost four decades, Malick has directed five feature films....

's war epic, The Thin Red Line

The Thin Red Line (1998 film)

The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American war film which tells a fictional story of United States forces during the Battle of Mount Austen in World War II. It portrays men in: C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division; in particular those soldiers played by Sean Penn, Jim...

.

In more recent years he has been seen on the small as well as the big screen. He was the recurring character of Donald Lydecker in the first and second seasons of Dark Angel

Dark Angel (TV series)

Dark Angel is an American biopunk/cyberpunk science fiction television series created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee. The show premiered in the United States on the Fox network on October 3, 2000, and was canceled after two seasons...

and portrayed Captain Ransom in the two part episode "Equinox" from Star Trek: Voyager

Star Trek: Voyager

Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. Set in the 24th century from the year 2371 through 2378, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS Voyager, which becomes stranded in the Delta Quadrant 70,000 light-years from Earth while...

.

Another recurring role found him as Henry Scudder in the HBO-produced television series Carnivàle

Carnivàle

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...

. In 2005, he appeared on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced...

. He lent his voice to a monologue on the title track of the album, This Town, by Steve Smith

Steve Smith (house music vocalist)

Steve Smith is a British house musician most notable for being one of the members of the band Dirty Vegas.-Musical career:In 1992, Steve auditioned for a band called Higher Ground, and was taken on as a percussionist...

 of Dirty Vegas

Dirty Vegas

Dirty Vegas is a Grammy Award-winning British house music trio made up of Ben Harris and Paul Harris on instruments and production and Steve Smith on vocals...

 (album released February 18, 2008). In September 2009, he appeared in the second episode of Season 2 of the Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

 network drama Fringe

Fringe (TV series)

Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The series follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security...

. In the late 1970s, he also appeared on Broadway in David Mamet's play, "American Buffalo" with Robert Duval.

He is currently starring in the western thriller "The Sorrow" with Kirk Harris

Kirk Harris

Actor-writer Kirk Harris has been the lead actor in several films that have had arthouse theatrical releases in the US.He is currently starring in the western thriller "The Sorrow" for director Vernon Mortensen. He stars in the film with newcomer Ryan Ballance, John Savage, Michael Madsen and...

, newcomer Ryan Ballance and Michael Madsen

Michael Madsen

Michael Søren Madsen is an American actor, poet, and photographer. He has appeared in more than 150 films, most of them small independent films, though he has starred in central roles in such films as Reservoir Dogs, Free Willy, Donnie Brasco, and Kill Bill, in addition to a supporting role in Sin...

 for director Vernon Mortensen.

Family

Savage was born in Old Bethpage, New York

Old Bethpage, New York

Old Bethpage is a hamlet located on Long Island in the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York, USA. The population of the CDP was 5,523 at the 2010 census.It is served by the Old Bethpage Post Office, ZIP code 11804....

, the son of Muriel, a homemaker, and Floyd Youngs, an insurance salesman who served on Guadalcanal

Guadalcanal

Guadalcanal is a tropical island in the South-Western Pacific. The largest island in the Solomons, it was discovered by the Spanish expedition of Alvaro de Mendaña in 1568...

 during World War II with the Marine Corps

Marine corps

A marine is a member of a force that specializes in expeditionary operations such as amphibious assault and occupation. The marines traditionally have strong links with the country's navy...

. His sisters are Boston-based radio and television personality Robin Young

Robin Young

Robin Young is an American television and radio personality. She has been a Boston, Massachusetts-based radio and television host since the mid-1970s when she hosted Evening Magazine for WBZ-TV....

 and actress Gail Youngs. His brother is actor Jim Youngs

Jim Youngs

Jim Youngs is an American actor. Youngs was born in Old Bethpage, New York, the brother of actor John Savage, actress/producer Gail Youngs, and journalist/producer/director Robin Young.-Career:...

.

Selected filmography

• Bad Company
  Bad Company (1972 film)
  Bad Company is a 1972 American Western film directed by Robert Benton, who also co-wrote the film with David Newman. It stars Barry Brown and Jeff Bridges as two of a group of young men that flee the draft during the American Civil War to seek their fortune and freedom on the unforgiving American...
  
  (1972)
• The Killing Kind (1973)
• Steelyard Blues
  Steelyard Blues
  Steelyard Blues is a 1973 comedy crime film starring Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda and Peter Boyle. It concerns the lives of a group of misfits trying to find a happier life against the norms of society. Sutherland plays an ex-con with a passion for demolition derbies. He has wrecked almost every...
  
  (1973)
• The Sister-in-Law
  The Sister-in-Law
  The Sister-in-Law is a 1974 film written and directed by Joseph Ruben. The film was his directorial debut and was shot in New York City.-Taglines:"She Helped Her Husband Destroy His Brother By The Most Immoral Act Imaginable"...
  
  (1974)
• All the Kind Strangers
  All the Kind Strangers
  - Plot summary :Children of a bootlegger in an extremely remote area of the U.S. have been orphaned when their mother died giving birth to the 7th of them at home and the distraught father fell off the roof of the house in a drunken stupor...
  
  (1974)
• Eric (TV Movie) (1975)
• The Deer Hunter
  The Deer Hunter
  The Deer Hunter is a 1978 drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Russian American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Savage, John Cazale, and George Dzundza...
  
  (1978)
• Hair
  Hair (film)
  Hair is a 1979 American film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical of the same name about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center...
  
  (1979)
• The Onion Field
  The Onion Field (film)
  The Onion Field is a 1979 American drama film directed by Harold Becker. The screenplay by Joseph Wambaugh is based on his 1973 true crime novel of the same title...
  
  (1979)
• Inside Moves
  Inside Moves
  Inside Moves is a drama film directed by Richard Donner.- Plot :After a failed suicide attempt leaves a man named Rory partially crippled, he finds himself living in a run-down house in Oakland, California...
  
  (1980)
• Cattle Annie and Little Britches
  Cattle Annie and Little Britches (film)
  Cattle Annie and Little Britches is an American film based on the lives of two adolescent girls in the late 19th century who became infatuated with the Western outlaw heroes they had read about in Ned Buntline's stories and left their homes to join them...
  
  (1981)
• The Amateur (1981)
• Coming out of the Ice (1982)
• Brady's Escape (1983)
• Vengeance of a Soldier (1984)
• Maria's Lovers (1984)
• Nairobi Affair (1984)
• Soldier's Revenge (1985)
• The Little Sister (1985)
• Silent Witness
  Silent Witness (film)
  Silent Witness is a 1985 television film directed by Michael Miller. The film is based on a true rape case in Massachusetts.- Plot :Anna and Kevin Dunne are a newlywed couple who have recently moved to Pittsburgh. She is working in a discount department store, he is a garbage man...
  
  (1985)
• Salvador
  Salvador (film)
  Salvador is a 1986 war drama film which tells the story of an American journalist in El Salvador covering the Salvadoran civil war. While trying to get footage, he becomes entangled with both leftist guerrillas and the right wing military...
  
  (1986)
• Hotel Colonial (1987)
• Beauty and the Beast
  Beauty and the Beast (1987 film)
  Beauty and the Beast is a 1987 American/Israeli musical film, part of the 1980 film series Cannon Movie Tales...
  
  (1987)
• Caribe (1987)
• The Beat
  The Beat (1988 film)
  -Plot summary:A new kid moves into a tough neighborhood controlled by gangs, and tries to teach them poetry.-Release:The movie was first shown at The Cannes Film Festival in 1987 and released into U.S. theaters the next year. In 1989, Vestron Video released the movie on videocassette...
  
  (1988)
• Do the Right Thing
  Do the Right Thing
  Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American dramedy produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee, who is also a featured actor in the film. Other members of the cast include Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, and John Turturro. It is also notably the...
  
  (1989)
• The Godfather Part III
  The Godfather Part III
  The Godfather Part III is a 1990 American gangster film written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, and directed by Coppola. It completes the story of Michael Corleone, a Mafia kingpin who tries to legitimize his criminal empire...
  
  (1990)
• Mountain of Diamonds (1991)
• Hunting (1991)
• Door to Silence
  Door to Silence
  Door into Silence / Door to silence / The Door to Silence is a 1991 Italian horror movie directed by Lucio Fulci and produced by Joe D'Amato.- Cast :* John Savage * Sandi Schultz...
  
  (1991)
• Primary Motive (1992)
• CIA II: Target Alexa (1993)
• The Dangerous (1994)
• Killing Obsession (1994)
• Deadly Weapon
  Deadly weapon
  A deadly weapon, sometimes dangerous weapon, is a statutory definition listing certain items which can inflict mortal or great bodily harm. In addition, deadly weapon statutes often contain "catch all" provisions which describe abilities used to designate other implements as deadly weapons.Whether...
  
  (1994)
• Berlin '39 (1994)
• Shattered Image
  Shattered Image
  Shattered Image is a thriller drama film written by Duane Poole and directed by Raoul Ruiz. It stars William Baldwin, Anne Parillaud and Lisanne Falk.-Plot:...
  
  (1994)
• Red Scorpion 2 (1994)
• The Takeover (1995)
• Fatal Choice (1995)
• The Conversion (The Outer Limits) (1995)
• Firestorm (1995)
• Carnosaur 2 (1995)
• OP Center (1995)
• The Crossing Guard
  The Crossing Guard
  The Crossing Guard is a 1995 independent film directed and written by American actor Sean Penn. It stars Jack Nicholson, David Morse, Anjelica Huston and Robin Wright Penn.- Plot :...
  
  (1995)
• Amnesia (1996)
• White Squall
  White Squall (film)
  White Squall is a 1996 American drama feature film, directed by Ridley Scott.-Plot:The film is based on the fate of the brigantine Albatross, which sank on 2 May 1961, allegedly because of a white squall. The film relates the ill-fated school sailing trip led by Dr. Christopher B. Sheldon , whom...
  
  (1996)
• One Good Turn (1996)
• Where Truth Lies (1996)
• American Strays
  American Strays
  American Strays is a 1996 American Comedy-Drama film which follows three interwoven stories of desert travelers as they converge on a small diner.-Synopsis:...
  
  (1996)
• The Mouse (1996)
• Flynn (1997)
• Little Boy Blue
  Little Boy Blue (film)
  Little Boy Blue is a 1997 film directed by Antonio Tibaldi. The screenplay was by Michael Boston.-Plot:Living in rural Texas is the dysfunctional West family: an abusive, war veteran father, Ray , a compliant wife, Kate , and a 19-year-old son, Jimmy living outside their home...
  
  (1997)
• Hollywood Safari (1997)
• Hostile Intent (1997)
• A Corner of Paradise (1997)
• Before Women Had Wings
  Before Women Had Wings
  Before Women Had Wings is a 1997 television film, based on the story by Connie May Fowler about a mother whose abusive husband commits suicide, and she starts to violently abuse her two daughters...
  
  (1997)
• Club Vampire (1998)
• Nightworld: Lost Souls
  Nightworld: Lost Souls
  Lost Souls is a made-for-TV movie created for UPN in 1998 for the Nightworld movie series. It was the second in the series to be shown by the network. It was frequently shown on the Fox Family Channel during the 13 nights of Halloween special in October....
  
  (1998)
• The Thin Red Line
  The Thin Red Line (1998 film)
  The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American war film which tells a fictional story of United States forces during the Battle of Mount Austen in World War II. It portrays men in: C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division; in particular those soldiers played by Sean Penn, Jim...
  
  (1998)
• Christina's House (1999)
• Message in a Bottle
  Message in a Bottle (film)
  Message in a Bottle is a 1999 American romantic drama film directed by Luis Mandoki. Based on a novel with the same name by Nicholas Sparks, the film stars Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, and Paul Newman...
  
  (1999)
• The Jack Bull
  The Jack Bull
  The Jack Bull is a made for television western, produced for HBO, and directed by John Badham. The film is loosely based on Michael Kohlhaas, a novel by Heinrich von Kleist, with the script by Dick Cusack...
  
  (1999)
• Summer of Sam
  Summer of Sam
  Summer of Sam is a 1999 crime-drama based around the Son of Sam serial murders. It was directed and produced by Spike Lee.-Plot:Summer of Sam is the story of a group of people in New York City in the summer of 1977, a time when the headlines were dominated by the Son of Sam serial killer...
  
  (1999)
• Equinox (Star Trek: Voyager)
  Equinox (Star Trek: Voyager)
  "Equinox" is a two-part episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the cliffhanger between the fifth and sixth seasons. -Part 1:Voyager receives a hail from the Federation Starship USS Equinox, and Janeway immediately decides to go investigate...
  
  (1999) (TV - 2 part episode)
• The Virginian (2000)
• They Nest (2000)
• Dark Angel
  Dark Angel (TV series)
  Dark Angel is an American biopunk/cyberpunk science fiction television series created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee. The show premiered in the United States on the Fox network on October 3, 2000, and was canceled after two seasons...
  
  (2000–2001) (TV series)
• Dead Man's Run (2001)
• Redemption of the Ghost (2002)
• The Anarchist Cookbook
  The Anarchist Cookbook (film)
  The Anarchist Cookbook is a 2002 black comedy film directed by Jordan Susman. The movie is about a young honors student-turned-anarchist, Puck , and his group of anarchist friends living peacefully in a Dallas commune until a nihilist, Johnny Black , appears with The Anarchist Cookbook and...
  
  (2002)
• Intoxicating (2003)
• Easy Sex (2003)
• Carnivàle
  Carnivàle
  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...
  
  (2003–2005) (TV series)
• Shortcut to Happiness (2004)
• Alien Lockdown
  Alien Lockdown
  Alien Lockdown is a television movie that premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel on February 7, 2004. The movie was directed by Tim Cox. On SciFi UK the film was shown under the title Creature.- Plot :...
  
  (2004)
• Sucker Free City
  Sucker Free City
  Sucker Free City is a 2004 film directed by Spike Lee. The film examines white, black, and Chinese characters in San Francisco and the conflicts they encounter with each other. The film was intended to be the pilot for a Showtime television series. Showtime declined to pick up the series...
  
  (2004)
• Admissions (2004)
• Aimée Price (2005)
• Iowa (2005)
• Confessions of a Pit Fighter
  Confessions of a Pit Fighter
  Confessions of a Pit Fighter is a 2005 film. It is a fighting film that follows an embattled pit fighter on a quest for revenge against the man who killed his brother. It was filmed in Los Angeles, California and was produced by Alliance Group Entertainment...
  
  (2005)
• Love's Long Journey
  Love's Long Journey
  Love's Long Journey is a 2005 Christian Drama made for TV movie based on a series of books by Janette Oke. It was directed by Michael Landon Jr...
  
  (2005)
• The New World (2005) - Thomas Savage
• The Drop (2006)
• Kill Your Darlings
  Kill Your Darlings
  Kill Your Darlings is a 2006 film directed by Björne Larson and written by Björne Larson and Johan Sandström. In an interview with Svenska Dagbladet, Larson said that the film is based on a real event in his life when he met a seemingly nice man at an internet cafe in Los Angeles who ended up...
  
  (2006)
• Shut Up and Shoot! (2006)
• Downtown: A Street Tale
  Downtown: A Street Tale
  Downtown: A Street Tale is a 2004 American drama film.Its focus is on a group of teenagers and twentysomethings living in the basement of an abandoned factory on 10th Avenue in Manhattan...
  
  (2007)
• The Violent Kind (2008)
• The Attic
  The Attic (film)
  The Attic is a 2008 horror film directed by Mary Lambert, starring Elisabeth Moss, Jason Lewis, Tom Malloy, and Catherine Mary Stewart.-Plot:...
  
  (2008)
• The Golden Boys
  The golden boys
  The Golden Boys may refer to:*Chatham , directed by Daniel Adams. The movie was renamed from Chatham to for distribution.*Watford F.C., Watford Football Club...
  
  (2008)
• The Grift (2008)
• From a Place of Darkness (2008)
• The Thacker Case
  The Thacker Case
  The Coverup is a crime/thriller film directed by Brian Jun and starring Gabriel Mann and Eliza Dushku.-Plot:...
  
  (2008)
• The Red Canvas (2009)
• Handsome Harry
  Handsome Harry
  Handsome Harry is a 2009 American movie written by Nicholas T. Proferes and directed by Bette Gordon. The film stars Jamey Sheridan, Steve Buscemi and Aidan Quinn...
  
  (2009)
• Buffalo Bushido (2009)
• Anytown
  Anytown (film)
  Anytown is a 2009 drama film, written and directed by Dave Rodriguez. The film has won three film awards. "Best Picture" at the Charleston International Film Festival, "Excellence in Filmmaking" at The Method Fest and "Best Screenplay" at the Long Island International Film Expo...
  
  (2009)
• Bereavement
  Bereavement (film)
  Bereavement is a 2010 American Slasher film starring Michael Biehn, Alexandra Daddario, John Savage and Nolan Gerard Funk. It is a prequel to director Steven Mena's previous film Malevolence, and centers on a child who is abducted and forced to bear witness to a madman's crimes.-Plot:The film...
  
  (2010)
• Nephilim (2010)
• Spreading Darkness (2011)

External links

• Articles about John Savage, a Malibu resident, can be found at The Malibu Times.