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John Savage

Highest Rated: 100% Showdown at the Grand (2023)

Lowest Rated: 11% Bullet (2014)

Birthday: Aug 25, 1949

Birthplace: Old Bethpage, New York, USA

Blond and baby-faced, John Savage made a name for himself as a sensitive, vulnerable screen presence during the 1970s. The Long Island-born actor studied at NYC's American Academy of Dramatic Arts, began his stage career in the 60s and by 1971 had appeared on Broadway in the long-running "Fiddler on the Roof." He would tour the USA as the ultra-shy and stuttering Billy Bibbit in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" but not before enjoying a breakthrough of sorts as a young East Coast youth who runs off to the Wild West thus evading service in the Civil War, in Robert Benton's feature directing debut, "Bad Company" (1972). After joining the anti-establishment misfits (i.e., Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland and Peter Boyle) of "Steelyard Blues" (1973), he took his first crack at the small screen, acting in the TV-movie "All the Kind Strangers" (ABC, 1974), and later played "Eric" (NBC, 1975), a terminal cancer patient fighting to the very end. He also made his debut as a series regular, portraying the cub reporter lead of the short-lived "Gibbsville" (NBC, 1976).

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 70% Showdown at the Grand Watchlist
92% 89% Do the Right Thing
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90% 85% Salvador
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87% 65% The Onion Field
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86% 91% The Deer Hunter
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86% 86% The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone Watchlist
83% 87% Hair
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83% 71% Bad Company
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82% 56% Handsome Harry
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80% 73% The Jack Bull
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Showdown at the Grand 100% 70% 2023 Lucky Actor Eye for Eye 2022 Brad Braddock Actor The Right to Bear Arms 2022 Actor Michael Cimino: God Bless America 2022 Self A Cloud So High 2022 Gene "Sackler" Sarling Actor Insight 74% 2021 Frank Actor Gates of Darkness 2020 Joseph Actor Ovid and the Art of Love 2020 Augustus Actor A Medicine for the Mind 2020 Dr. Ernest Brown Actor, Executive Producer The Last Full Measure 62% 96% 2019 Chauncey Kepper Actor The Islands 59% 2019 Henry Thornton Actor Heavenly Deposit 2019 Donald Actor Down's Revenge 2019 Dr. Sorkin Actor Do Something, Jake 2018 Delivery Guy Actor Followed 76% 48% 2018 Wallace Actor 6 Children & 1 Grandfather 2018 David McDoll Actor Mission Possible 2018 Captain Ted Actor Torch 2018 August Lewin Actor Betrayed 96% 2018 Mayor Alderman Actor Easy Way Out 2018 Martin Actor Spreading Darkness 2017 Brett Actor The Neighborhood 57% 2017 Vito Bello Actor Empire of the Sharks 27% 2017 Ian Fien Actor Going Vertical 2017 Hank Aiba Actor Teen Star Academy 2016 Burt Actor
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