Ann Savage

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1921-02-19 (87 years old)

Deathday

2008-12-25

Place of Birth

Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Ann Savage

Biography

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...

Acting

1943

Footlight Glamour

as Vicki Wheeler

1945

Detour

as Vera

1945

Midnight Manhunt

as Sue Gallagher

2008

My Winnipeg

as Mother

1945

Apology for Murder

as Toni Kirkland

1945

Scared Stiff

as Sally Warren

1945

The Spider

as Florence Cain

2004

Los Angeles Plays Itself

as Vera in Detour (archive footage)

1946

The Last Crooked Mile

as Sheila Kennedy

1951

Pier 23

as Ann Harmon

1946

Renegade Girl

as Jean Shelby

1943

Passport to Suez

as Valerie King

1943

1950

Pygmy Island

as Capt. Ann R. Kingsley

1943

What a Woman

as Jane Hughes

1947

Jungle Flight

as Laurey Roberts

1944

Two-Man Submarine

as Pat Benson

1943

1944

The Unwritten Code

as Mary Lee Norris

1943

Klondike Kate

as Kathleen O'Day

1944

Dancing in Manhattan

as Valerie Crawford

1946

The Dark Horse

as Mary Burton

1943

The More the Merrier

as Miss Dalton (uncredited)

1949

1944

The Last Horseman

as Judy Ware

1944

Ever Since Venus

as Janet Wilson

1943

Dangerous Blondes

as Erika McCormick

1946

Lady Chaser

as Inez Marie Polk/Palmer

1943

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