John Savage

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John Savage
Born	John Youngs August 25, 1949 (1949-08-25) (age 60) Old Bethpage, New York, USA
Occupation	Actor
Spouse(s)	Susan Youngs (1967–1969) 2 Children Sandi Schultz (1993–Present)

John Savage (born John Youngs; August 25, 1949) is an American film actor, producer, production manager, and composer.

Acting career

His first major film role was as Steven in the 1978 film, The Deer Hunter, the story of a group of Ukrainian American steel workers during the Vietnam War.

One of his most famous roles was as Claude Bukowski in the film Hair (1979). He had a brief role in Terrence Malick's war epic, The Thin Red Line.

In 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. Most recently^[when?], he has lent his voice to a monologue on the title track of the album, This Town, by Steve Smith of Dirty Vegas. In September 2009, he appeared in the second episode of Season 2 of the Fox network drama Fringe.

Family

Savage was born in Old Bethpage, New York, the son of Muriel, a homemaker, and Floyd Youngs, who worked in insurance sales.^[1] His sister is Boston-based radio and television personality Robin Young. His brother is actor Jim Youngs. He is also the father of actress/singer Jennifer Youngs and her brother Lachlan. He has a grandson, Zolan Kanno-Youngs.

Selected filmography

• Bad Company (1972)
• The Killing Kind (1973)
• Steelyard Blues (1973)
• The Sister In-Law (1974)
• All the Kind Strangers (1974)
• 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)
• Vengeance of a Soldier (1984)
• Maria's Lovers (1984)
• Nairobi Affair (1984)
• The Little Sister (1985)
• Silent Witness (1985)
• Salvador (1986)
• Hotel Colonial (1987)
• Beauty and the Beast (1987)
• Caribe (1987)
• The Beat (1988)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• The Godfather Part III (1990)
• Mountain of Diamonds (1991)
• Hunting (1991)
• Door to Silence (1991)
• Primary Motive (1992)
• CIA II: Target Alexa (1993)
• The Dangerous (1994)
• Killing Obsession (1994)
• Deadly Weapon (1994)
• Berlin '39 (1994)
• Shattered Image (1994)
• Red Scorpion 2 (1994)
• The Takeover (1995)
• Fatal Choice (1995)
• Firestorm (1995)
• Carnosaur 2 (1995)
• OP Center (1995)
• The Crossing Guard (1995)
• 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)
• Hollywood Safari (1997)
• Hostile Intent (1997)
• A Corner of Paradise (1997)
• Before Women Had Wings (1997)
• Club Vampire (1998)
• Nightworld: Lost Souls (1998)
• The Thin Red Line (1998)
• Christina's House (1999)
• Message in a Bottle (1999)
• The Jack Bull (1999)
• Summer of Sam (1999)
• Equinox (Star Trek: Voyager) (1999) (TV - 2 part episode)
• 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)
• Admissions (2004)
• Aimée Price (2005)
• Iowa (2005)
• 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)
• The Red Canvas (2009)
• Handsome Harry (2009)
• Buffalo Bushido (2009)
• Anytown (2009)
• Bereavement (2009)
• Nephilim (2009)

References

External links

• John Savage at the Internet Movie Database
• John Savage at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Articles about John Savage, a Malibu resident, can be found at The Malibu Times.