Adam Savage

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Savage in July 2011

Adam Whitney Savage (born July 15, 1967 in New York ) is an American special effects expert, product designer and actor . He became known to a wide audience for his lead role in the series MythBusters . Models designed by him have been seen in films such as Matrix Reloaded or Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clone Warriors .

Life

Adam Savage was born in New York City and raised in Sleepy Hollow , Westchester County , where he attended school until 1984. His father, Whitney Lee Savage (1928–1998) worked as a painter, filmmaker, underground film director and animator for the television production Sesame Street . Savage's mother is a psychotherapist. Adam Savage began acting as a child by performing on Sesame Street. He later appeared in a video for Billy Joel's song "Second Wind" as a teenager . Since his earliest childhood, around the age of five, he designed his first constructions and made his own toys. After school he worked as a graphic designer and interior decorator as well as in the field of stage design, where he worked as a set designer, carpenter and welder at well-known theaters in New York and San Francisco.

Savage has brought his experience in the field of cinematic special effects to more than 100 commercials and some well-known films and has produced props and models for Coca-Cola , Hershey's and Lexus , among other things . Prior to his first appearances as the presenter of MythBusters, Savage worked for Jamie Hyneman as a special effects employee at M5 Industries .

Savage has been a contributor to the YouTube channel Tested since 2012. This has gained more than 5 million subscribers over time.

In 2019 Savage published his book Every Tool's A Hammer , in which he writes about his experience of creative work.

Adam Savage has been married since 2003 and has twin sons from a previous relationship. His sister Kate Savage is also an artist. Savage is an atheist, humanist, and skeptic .

Awards

Filmography (selection)

Modelling
Visual effects
Actor / presenter
producer

Web links

Commons : Adam Savage  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography - Adam Savage ( Memento of the original from May 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from mythbuster.jimdo.com, accessed February 22, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mythbuster.jimdo.com
  2. ↑ Adam Savage's “Tested” channel on youtube.com
  3. ↑ http://boingboing.net/features/savage.html
  4. ↑ http://www.csicop.org/si/show/mythbusterss_adam_savage/
  5. ↑ derStandard.at: Oberhummer Award goes to “MythBuster” Adam Savage . Article dated April 17, 2018, accessed April 23, 2018.
  6. ^ Adam Savage - Freedom From Religion Foundation . In: fff.org .
  7. ↑ Savage builds at dmax.de, added Oct. 1, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Savage, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Savage, Adam Whitney (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American special effects expert, product designer, and actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH new York