John Savage (actor)

John Savage
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Born	John Youngs (1949-08-25) August 25, 1949 Old Bethpage, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1969-present
Spouse(s)	Susan Youngs (1967-1969) (divorced) (2 children) Sandi Schultz (1993-present)
Children	Jennifer Youngs (b. 1968) Lachlan Youngs

John Savage (born John Youngs; August 25, 1949) is an American actor, best known for his roles in the films The Deer Hunter, The Onion Field, Hair and Salvador. He is also known for his role as Donald Lydecker in the TV series Dark Angel.

Early life

Savage was born in Old Bethpage, New York, the son of Muriel, a housewife, and Floyd Youngs, an insurance salesman who served on Guadalcanal during World War II with the Marine Corps. His sisters are Boston-based radio and television personality Robin Young and actress Gail Youngs. His brother is actor Jim Youngs.

Career

His first major film role was as Steven in the 1978 film, The Deer Hunter, the story of a group of Russian American steel workers during the Vietnam War. He also had a lead role in 1979's The Onion Field, 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 Miloš Forman's 1979 film Hair. He had a brief role in Terrence Malick's war film, The Thin Red Line. In the late 1970s, he also appeared on Broadway in David Mamet's play, "American Buffalo" with Robert Duvall. In 1991 he was featured in a starring role in Italian director Lucio Fulci's final film Door to Silence, a psychological thriller shot in Louisiana.

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

Another recurring role found him as Henry Scudder in the HBO-produced television series Carnivàle. In 2005, he appeared on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. He lent his voice to a monologue on the title track of the album, This Town, by Steve Smith of Dirty Vegas (album released February 18, 2008). In September 2009, he appeared in the second episode of Season 2 of the Fox network drama Fringe.

He is currently starring in the western thriller "The Sorrow" with Kirk Harris, newcomer Ryan Ballance and Michael Madsen for director Vernon Mortensen. Savage also recently played a supporting role in the dark romantic comedy Hit List.

Selected filmography

• Bad Company (1972)
• The Killing Kind (1973)
• Steelyard Blues (1973)
• The Sister-in-Law (1974)
• All the Kind Strangers (1974)
• Eric (TV Movie) (1975)
• John O'Hara's Gibbsville (TV movie) (1975)
• Gibbsville (TV series) (1976)
• The Deer Hunter (1978)
• Hair (1979)
• The Onion Field (1979)
• Inside Moves (1980)
• Cattle Annie and Little Britches (1981)
• The Amateur (1981)
• Coming Out Of The Ice (1982)
• Brady's Escape (1983)
• Vengeance of a Soldier (1984)
• Maria's Lovers (1984)
• Silent Witness (1985)
• Salvador (1986)
• The Little Sister (1986)
• Hotel Colonial (1987)
• Beauty and the Beast (1987)
• Caribe (1987)
• The Beat (1988)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• The Godfather Part III (1990)
• Any Man's Death (1990)
• Mountain of Diamonds (1991)
• Hunting (1991)
• Door to Silence (1991)
• Dark Tale (1991)
• Primary Motive (1992)
• CIA II: Target Alexa (1993)
• The Takeover (1995)
• Fatal Choice (1995)
• The Conversion (The Outer Limits) (1995)
• Firestorm (1995)
• Carnosaur 2 (1995)
• OP Center (1995)
• The Crossing Guard (1995)
• Død Kalm (The X-Files) (1995) (TV episode)
• Amnesia (1996)
• White Squall (1996)
• One Good Turn (1996)
• Where Truth Lies (1996)
• American Strays (1996)
• The Mouse (1996)
• Flynn (1997)
• Little Boy Blue (1997)
• Before Women Had Wings (1997)
• Club Vampire (1998)
• Nightworld: Lost Souls (1998)
• The Thin Red Line (1998)
• Message in a Bottle (1999)
• The Jack Bull (1999)
• Summer of Sam (1999)
• Equinox (Star Trek: Voyager) (1999) (TV - 2 part episode)
• Christina's House (2000)
• The Virginian (2000)
• They Nest (2000)
• Dark Angel (2000–2001) (TV series)
• Dead Man's Run (2001)
• Redemption of the Ghost (2002)
• The Anarchist Cookbook (2002)
• Intoxicating (2003)
• Easy Sex (2003)
• Carnivàle (2003–2005) (TV series)
• Shortcut to Happiness (2004)
• Alien Lockdown (2004)
• Sucker Free City (2004)
• Confessions of a Pit Fighter (2005)
• Love's Long Journey (2005)
• The New World (2005)
• The Drop (2006)
• Kill Your Darlings (2006)
• Shut Up and Shoot! (2006)
• Downtown: A Street Tale (2007)
• The Violent Kind (2008)
• The Attic (2008)
• The Golden Boys (2008)
• The Grift (2008)
• From a Place of Darkness (2008)
• The Thacker Case (2008)
• Boiler Maker (2008)
• The Red Canvas (2009)
• Handsome Harry (2009)
• Buffalo Bushido (2009)
• Anytown (2009)
• Bereavement (2010)
• Spreading Darkness (2011)
• The Orphan Killer (2011)
• Hit List (2012)
• Gemini Rising (2012)
• Fort Bliss (2013)
• Defending Santa (2013)
• Bermuda Tentacles (2014)
• Cleaners (2014)
• Bullet (2014)
• Nephilim (2014)
• The Lookalike (2014)
• We Will Be the World Champions (2015)
• In Dubious Battle (TBA)

External links

• John Savage at the Internet Movie Database