# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-savage
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:27:16.254Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-savage"
name: "John Savage"
slug: "john-savage"
description: "John Smeallie Youngs, known professionally as John Savage, is an American actor. He first rose to prominence in the late 1970s for his portrayals of troubled-but-sensitive characters in films like The Deer Hunter (1978), The Onion Field (1979) and Hair (1979). His television roles include Donald Lydecker on Dark Angel (2000–2002) and Hack Scudder on Carnivàle (2003–2005)."
tagline: "American actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Savage_Cannes_2018.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1949-08-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58
  momentum:             1.720880010797679
  historical:           23.92331333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001698/"
    handle:    "nm0001698"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جان سوج (اویونچو)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Джон Савидж"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Savage (Schauspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Savage (näyttelijä)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Savage (acteur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Savage_(aghteyr)"
    title: "John Savage (aghteyr)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Savage (attore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジョン・サヴェージ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A1%B4_%EC%83%88%EB%B9%84%EC%A7%80"
    title: "존 새비지"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%8Fo%D0%BD_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%9F"
    title: "Џoн Севиџ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Savage"
    title: "John Savage"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "John Savage"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump