John Savage Net Worth

John Savage's Quotes

• I love plays like "Of Mice and Men." Modern classics. They tell you so much about America, how things were. The time it's about wasn't all that long ago, but we often forget times, and things, we should remember.
• We make these stories, we play act, we pretend. But a lot of these stories we're playing or we're doing, people identify with us. We're real to them.
• [asked to name the great actors from 1970s] Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Jon Voight, John Cazale, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, and John Savage -- nobody talks about John Savage. He's amazing in The Deer Hunter (1978), The Onion Field (1979), Inside Moves (1980).
• There's a little bit of value in a lot of films that don't get a lot of attention. They have legs. They show up for years.
• I have a deep interest in the experiences of men and women in the armed services.

Interesting Facts about John Savage

1. Father of Jennifer Youngs and Lachlan Youngs.
2. Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1979" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 31.
3. Spent 6 years (1988-1994) in South Africa, working with Nelson Mandela for the anti-Apartheid movement.
4. Older brother of actor Jim Youngs and Gail Youngs.
5. Had a son, Lachlan Youngs, and a daughter, Jennifer Youngs, from his first marriage to Susan Youngs.
6. Younger sister, Gail Youngs, was once married to actor Robert Duvall from 1982-1986.
7. Was an assistant production manager for certain sequences of Spike Lee's film Malcolm X (1992) that was shot in South Africa where John was living at the time working with Nelson Mandela on the anti-apartheid movement. John had appeared in Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) a few years back, and later would show up in Lee's Summer of Sam (1999).
8. Won the Drama Circle Award for his stage portrayal of Billy Bibbitt in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" in the early 1970s.
9. In his early years he organized the Manhattan's Children's Theatre Group which performed in public housing areas.
10. As of 2014, has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: The Deer Hunter (1978), The Godfather: Part III (1990) and The Thin Red Line (1998). Of those, only The Deer Hunter (1978) is a winner in the category.
11. Lost his best friend in the May 4th Shootings at Kent State University.
12. Born on the same day as Gene Simmons of KISS.
13. He has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Deer Hunter (1978) and Do the Right Thing (1989).
14. Alumnus of the AADA (American Academy of Dramatic Arts), Class of 1969.