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John Savage
John Savage
Biographical Information
Real Name: John Smeallie Youngs
Birth: August 25, 1949
Height: 5' 9½
Originally From: Old Bethpage, Long Island, New York, USA
Production Details
First appearance: Pilot
Portrays: Donald Lydecker


Biography[]

John Savage is an American actor who, for about half-a-decade from the late 1970s through the early '80s, remained precariously balanced on the cusp of stardom before his career as a character lead eventually derailed after the failure of Maria's Lovers (1984) in 1984. Perhaps it was for the best, personally, as Savage devoted the rest of the decade to fighting apartheid in South Africa, a far worthier cause than the pursuit of movie stardom.

Born John Youngs on August 25, 1949 in Old Bethpage, New York, Savage first made a major splash on screen nearly 10 years after his 1969 B-movie, big-screen debut in The Master Beater (1969) with The Deer Hunter (1978) (1978), winner of the Best Picture Oscars in 1979, its impact on Hollywood and America in the late 1970s was enormous. The following year, Savage had leads in two more big pictures:Milos Forman's musical Hair (1979) and the film adaptation of Joseph Wambaugh's The Onion Field  (1979).

Savage's appearance as the suicide-survivor in Richard Donner's Inside Moves (1980) was at least the third major Role for the actor. Then came "Maria's Lovers", with Nastassja Kinski and cinema legend Robert Mitchum. His career as a character lead was over, and by 1986, he was appearing in a supporting role to James Woods' Oscar-nominated lead in Oliver Stone's Salvador. By the end of the decade, when he appeared in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather: Part III (1990) sequel in place of Robert Duvall (who refused to appear in the picture in a salary dispute).

Episode Guide[]

Season 1
Pilot
Heat
Flushed
C.R.E.A.M.
411 on the DL
Prodigy
Cold Comfort
Blah Blah Woof Woof
Out
Red
Art Attack
Rising
The Kidz are Aiight
Female Trouble
Haven
Shorties in Love
Pollo Loco
I and I Am a Camera
Hit a Sista Back
Meow
...And Jesus Brought a Casserole

Season 2
Designate This
Bag 'Em
Proof of Purchase
Radar Love
Boo
Two
Some Assembly Required
Gill Girl
Medium is the Message
Brainiac
The Berrisford Agenda
Borrowed Time
Harbor Lights
Love in Vein
Fuhgeddaboudit
Exposure
Hello, Goodbye
Dawg Day Afternoon
She Ain't Heavy
Love Among the Runes
Freak Nation

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