Acting
Ann Savage
EN, DE cinema · 35 credits
Born
19 February 1921
Died
25 December 2008 (aged 87)
Birthplace
Columbia, South Carolina, USA
Also known as Berniece Maxine Lyon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ann Savage (February 19, 1921 – December 25, 2008) was an American film and television actress. She is best-remembered as the cigarette-puffing femme fatale in the critically acclaimed film noir Detour (1945), and starred in more than twenty B movies between 1943 and 1946. Effectively leaving the film business in the mid-1950s, Savage made occasional appearances on television and worked for industrial and inspirational film producers during the 1950s - 1970s. She made a number of live appearances at film festivals, especially for screenings of Detour, and in 1986, she returned to film with an appearance in Fire with Fire (AKA Captive Hearts) and as a guest on the television series Saved by the Bell. In 2007, she was cast by director Guy Maddin as his mother in My Winnipeg, "a part that had been tipped to bring her an Academy Award and which introduced her to a legion of new fans." Description above from the Wikipedia article Ann Savage (actress), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
My Winnipeg
as Mother
Fire with Fire
as Sister Harriet
Pier 23
as Ann Harmon
Pygmy Island
as Capt. Ann R. Kingsley
Jungle Flight
as Laurey Roberts
The Last Crooked Mile
as Sheila Kennedy
Renegade Girl
as Jean Shelby
The Dark Horse
as Mary Burton
Lady Chaser
as Inez Marie Polk/Palmer
Detour
as Vera
Midnight Manhunt
as Sue Gallagher
Apology for Murder
as Toni Kirkland
Scared Stiff
as Sally Warren
The Spider
as Florence Cain
Two-Man Submarine
as Pat Benson
The Unwritten Code
as Mary Lee Norris
Dancing in Manhattan
as Valerie Crawford
The Last Horseman
as Judy Ware
Ever Since Venus
as Janet Wilson
Footlight Glamour
as Vicki Wheeler
After Midnight with Boston Blackie
as Betty Barnaby
Passport to Suez
as Valerie King
One Dangerous Night
as Vivian
What a Woman
as Jane Hughes
Saddles and Sagebrush
as Ann Parker
Klondike Kate
as Kathleen O'Day
The More the Merrier
as Miss Dalton (uncredited)
Dangerous Blondes
as Erika McCormick
Murder in Times Square
as Miss Ruth