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Public records list John Savage as a television actor, film actor and film producer. John Savage was born on August 25, 1949 in Old Bethpage, New York, United States. The age as of 2026 is 77.
My Take
John Savage is one of those actors who never quite got the mainstream fame his talent deserved, and that's genuinely criminal. His work in The Deer Hunter is quietly devastating — he plays Steven with this fragile, trembling dignity that holds its own even next to De Niro and Walken at their absolute peaks. And then Hair the same year, where he's this wide-eyed innocent getting swept up in the counterculture — a completely different register, but just as convincing. The Onion Field showed he could anchor a grim true-crime drama without flinching. He kept working steadily through TV — Dark Angel, Carnivàle — never phoning it in. He's the definition of a character actor who elevated every project he touched, and I wish more people name-dropped him when they talk about the great performances of the late 1970s.
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- Name (English)
- John Savage
- Name (Japanese)
- ジョン・サヴェージ
- Reading
- じょん・さゔぇーじ
- Born
- August 25, 1949 (age 77)
- Origin
- Old Bethpage, New York, United States
- Occupation
- actor / television actor / film actor / film producer / composer
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Ox
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Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.
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John Savage was born on August 25, 1949 and is 77 years old.
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John Savage is from Old Bethpage, New York, United States.
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John Savage works as actor, television actor, film actor, film producer, composer.
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