John Savage

John Savage

Actor (b. 1949)
11
Movies
70.2%
Avg ThumbScore
Drama
Top Genre

Audiences rate John Savage’s films lower than 63% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking

Free to watch now (26 Oct): Message in a Bottle (Roku Channel, Plex, Tubi, Hoopla) · Salvador (Tubi, Hoopla) · Hair (YouTube, Tubi, Hoopla, Pluto TV, Prime Video (free)) · Bad Company (Hoopla) · Bereavement (Fandango at Home, Plex, Prime Video (free), Tubi, Hoopla, Fawesome) · Followed (Fandango at Home, Tubi).

Frequent Collaborators

Robert De Niro (1)Christopher Walken (1)John Cazale (1)Meryl Streep (1)George Dzundza (1)
i How is this score calculated?

The ThumbScore for John Savage (70.2%) is the average audience approval rating across 11 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of John's films are well-received by everyday viewers.

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.

Born 1949-08-25 in Old Bethpage, New York, USA.

On ThumbScore, John Savage appears in 11 films with an average audience score of 70.2%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: TMDB

Every John Savage movie, ranked by audience score

The Deer Hunter
The Deer Hunter
1978
👍 85%
Message in a Bottle
Message in a Bottle
1999
👍 75%
Salvador
Salvador
1986
👍 75%
The Jack Bull
The Jack Bull
1999
👍 73%
White Squall
White Squall
1996
👍 70%
Hair
Hair
1979
👍 69%
Bad Company
Bad Company
1972
👍 69%
The Onion Field
The Onion Field
1979
👍 68%
The Crossing Guard
The Crossing Guard
1995
👍 65%
Bereavement
Bereavement
2010
👍 64%
Followed
Followed
2020
👍 59%