Archie Savage

{{Short description|American actor, dancer, and choreographer (1914–2003)}} {{more citations needed|date=August 2021}} [[File:Vechten, Carl van - Archie Savage 02.jpg|thumb|right|300px| Archie Savage, by Carl van Vechten]]

'''Archie Savage''' (April 19, 1914 — February 14, 2003) was an American dancer, choreographer, and film and theatre actor.<ref name=stsw>[http://www.streetswing.com/histmai2/d2savage.htm Archie Savage] at streetswing.com</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110514144221/http://www.sfsite.com/gary/sava01.htm ARCHIE SAVAGE(1914–2003). American actor, dancer, and choreographer], in: ''Gary Westfahl's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film''</ref><ref name=fbms/> He was a pioneer of the African-American modern dance. For several years he was a partner of Katherine Dunham in her dance company.<ref name=fbms/> He was among the teachers of Dunham Technique at her school.<ref name="Katherine Dunham Timeline">[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/dunham/dunham-timeline.html Katherine Dunham Timeline] at Library of Congress</ref>

Savage became interested in dancing while he was a student in public schools in New York.<ref name="ca">{{cite news |last1=Smallwood |first1=Bill |title=Welles Had Hand In Career of Archie Savage |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/693147926/?match=1&terms=%22Archie%20Savage%22%20dancer |access-date=September 20, 2024 |work=The California Eagle |date=May 13, 1943 |location=California, Los Angeles |page=6 B|via = Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

Savage was one of the earliest black men to portray an astronaut in film.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}} Another one, in the same year of 1960, was Julius Ongewe in the East German/Polish film ''The Silent Star'' (known in the US as First Spaceship on Venus).<ref name=fbms>[https://shadowandact.com/who-was-the-first-black-man-in-space-in-the-movies-that-is-video/ "Who Was the First Black Man in Space - In the Movies That Is?"], by Sergio Mims, April 20, 2017 (retrieved April 12, 2020)</ref>{{Better source needed|Article offers no sources to substantiate its claims.|date=April 2021}}

The Archie Savage Dancers appear in the movie, “The Glenn Miller Story” and are acknowledged in the film's credits. In one scene, they appear on a screen in a recording studio as the band is recording the song “Tuxedo Junction,” to which they are performing.

==Filmography== * 1941: ''Carnival of Rhythm'' (starring with Katherine Dunham), American short <ref name="Katherine Dunham Timeline"/> * 1944: ''Jammin' the Blues'' (dancer), American short about jazz, part of the Melody Master series * 1954: ''Vera Cruz'' (a cutthroat gunslinger), American film * 1960: ''Space-Men'' (space station pilot Al ), Italian science fiction film * 1969: ''Bootleggers'' (Jeremiah), Italian-Spanish crime-action film * 1954: ''His Majesty O'Keefe'' (Boogulroo), American adventure film * 1967: ''Death Rides a Horse'' (Gambler), Italian Spaghetti Western * 1970: ''Notes Towards an African Orestes'' (singer), Italian film

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