John Savage
John Savage
Date of Birth / Doğum Tarihi
25 August 1949, Old Bethpage, Long Island, New York, USA
Birth Name / Gerçek Adı
John Youngs
Trivia / Önemsiz Şeyler
Father of Jennifer Youngs.Listed as one of twelve ""Promising New Actors of 1979"" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 31.Spent 6 years (1988-1994) in South Africa, working with Nelson Mandela for the anti-Apartheid movement.Older brother of actor Jim Youngs.Brother of actress Gail YoungsHad a son Lachlan from his first marriage to Susan.Younger sister Gail Youngs was once married to actor Robert Duvall from 1982-1986.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).Won the Drama Circle Award for his stage portrayal of Billy Bibbitt in ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"" in the early 70s.In his early years he organized the Manhattan's Children's Theatre Group which performed in public housing areas.His present wife actress Sandi Schultz is from Nambia (formerly Southwest Africa).
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