John
Smeallie Savage was born On August 25, 1949 in Old Bethpage, Long Island, 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 [1951- ]
and actress Gail Youngs [1953- ]. His brother is actor Jim Youngs [1956- ].
John’s
first major film role was as Steven in the 1978 film, “The Deer Hunter”. He
also had a lead role in 1979's “The Onion Field”. One of his most famous roles
was as Claude Bukowski in Milos 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
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’.
Savage
appeared in his only Euro-western in 1991 as Wintrop in “Buck at the Edge of
Heaven” along with his daughter Jennifer Youngs [1969- ].
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. In September 2009, he appeared in the second
episode of Season 2 of the Fox network drama ‘Fringe’.
He
most recently starred 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”.
Today
we celebrate John Savage’s 65th birthday.
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