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Doug Savant
Highest Rated: 50% Masquerade (1988)
Lowest Rated: 20% Godzilla (1998)
Birthday: Jun 21, 1964
Birthplace: Burbank, California, USA
Throughout the history of show business, many a heterosexual actor has hesitated to play homosexual characters on television or in films for fear of being typecast. In many ways ahead of his time - certainly in the pre-"Will and Grace" era - amicable pizza delivery boy-turned-actor Doug Savant made a substantial sociological contribution in the early 1990s by portraying gay social worker Matt Fielding for a five year run on the Aaron Spelling sudser "Melrose Place" (Fox, 1992-99). Worried he would be typecast at that tender time, he need not have worried, as he enjoyed a career resurgence in 2004 by portraying the somewhat needled husband of harried career woman-turned-stay-at-home-mom, Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman) on the monster TV hit series, "Desperate Housewives (ABC, 2004-12).
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Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 10% | April Rain | Special Agent Singleton (Character) | - | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | What Color Is Love? | Peter Marcheson (Character) | - | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 76% | All You've Got | Sam McDonald (Character) | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Faultline | Prof. Anthony McAllister (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | First Shot | Grant Coleman (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | 42% | First Target | Grant Coleman (Character) | - | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | 47% | First Daughter | Grant Coleman (Character) | - | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Face to Kill For | Virgil (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 20% | 28% | Godzilla | Sergeant O'Neal (Character) | $136.1M | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | 56% | Terminal | Dr. Sean O'Grady (Character) | - | 1996 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fight for Justice: The Nancy Conn Story | Richard Mark Ellard (Character) | - | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 15% | Badge of Silence: Maniac Cop 3 | Dr. Peter Myerson (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 78% | Bonnie and Clyde: The True Story | Deputy Sheriff Ted Hinton (Character) | - | 1992 |
| 40% | 40% | Shaking the Tree | Michael (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | 22% | Red Surf | Attila (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paint It Black | Eric Hinsley (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 50% | 51% | Masquerade | Mike McGill (Character) | $14.4M | 1988 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 63% | The Cleaning Lady | Gordon (Guest Star) | 2024 |
| 93% | 89% | Leverage: Redemption | AG James Hodgins (Guest Star) | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | 68% | S.W.A.T. | Mark (Guest Star) | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | NCIS | Marine Brigadier General Daniel Kent (Guest Star) | 2004 2019 |
| No Score Yet | 70% | MacGyver | Waller (Guest Star) | 2019 |
| 87% | 73% | Lucifer | Forest Clay (Guest Star) | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | 75% | 9-1-1 | Matthew Clark (Guest Star) | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | 87% | SEAL Team | Malcolm (Guest Star) | 2017 |
| 22% | 70% | Notorious | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| 26% | 84% | Pure Genius | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| 90% | 91% | Halt and Catch Fire | Mac Harpor (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| 27% | 63% | Rush Hour | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| 82% | 87% | Castle | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| 74% | 85% | The X-Files | Augustus Goldman (Guest Star) | 2016 |
| 61% | 79% | Scorpion | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | 69% | Hawaii Five-0 | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | Criminal Minds | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| 78% | 60% | Drop Dead Diva | Jakob Yordy (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | Rizzoli and Isles | Roger Thorson (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| 67% | 67% | Vegas | Mr. Binder (Guest Star) | 2013 |
| 72% | 88% | Desperate Housewives |
Tom Scavo (Character), Unknown (Guest Star) |
2004-2012 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wendy Williams Show | Guest | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | 89% | Hot in Cleveland | Scott (Guest Star) | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rachael Ray | Guest | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | 82% | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| 74% | 83% | Nip/Tuck | Joel Gideon (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| 87% | 87% | 24 | Craig Phillips (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| 83% | 93% | NYPD Blue | Jason Foster (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | The Guardian | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | According to Jim | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | JAG | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2002 |
| 77% | 96% | Firefly | Commander Harken (Guest Star) | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Law | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The District | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| 83% | No Score Yet | That's Life | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2001 |
| 44% | No Score Yet | Harsh Realm | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1999 |
| 14% | No Score Yet | Love Boat: The Next Wave | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Outer Limits | Kel (Character) | 1998 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Melrose Place | Matt Fielding (Character) | 1992-1997 |
| 43% | No Score Yet | Burke's Law | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | 79% | Columbo | Detective Dennis Mulrooney (Guest Star) | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jake and the Fatman | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Facts of Life | Dwayne (Guest Star) | 1987 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown (Character) | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hotel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1986 |