Membro delle Hall of Fame XRCO, Legends of Erotica e AVN, e apparve in oltre mille film. Biografia Nato da genitori russi ebrei a New York, Savage studiò recitazione con l'attrice di Broadway Uta Hagen e con la rinomata insegnante di recitazione Stella Adler. Savage inizialmente cercò di imporsi nel cinema "tradizionale", ma disilluso dalle costanti audizioni e dalla concorrenza per i ruoli David Jennings, Skinflicks: The Inside Story of the X-Rated Video Industry, AuthorHouse, 2000 ISBN 158721184X entrò nel mondo del cinema per adulti dopo essere stato scoperto dal produttore Richard Bolla alla fine degli anni settanta. Herschel Savage diventò uno degli attori più quotati durante "l'era d'oro del porno" fra gli anni settanta e gli ottanta. Apparve nel classico del 1978 Debbie Does Dallas, per il quale ricevette un compenso di circa 150 dollari al giorno. Fra gli altri suoi importanti film si possono citare Expose Me Now, Bodies in Heat e Rambone Does Hollywood. Nel 1988 lasciò il cinema pornografico, continuando comunque a lavorare nel mondo della distribuzione video e recitando anche alcuni ruoli in produzioni teatrali locali. Nel 1997 ritornò nell'industria della pornografia.
Savage si propose anche come stand up comedian, apparve di frequente nel reality show Porno: un affare di famiglia. Nel 2006 recitò nella produzione The Prisoner of 2nd Avenue di Neil Simon, sotto il nome d'arte Max Cohen.
Buddista praticante, morì l'8 ottobre 2023 all'età di 70 anni.
Riconoscimenti AVN Awards 1989 - Best Couples Sex Scene (film) per Amanda by Night 2 con Nina Hartley 2000 - Most Outrageous Sex Scene per Perverted Stories 22 con Mila e Dave Hardman 2002 - Best Supporting Actor – Film per Taken 2002 - Best Group Sex Scene (video) per Succubus con Ava Vincent, Bridgette Kerkove, Nikita Denise e Trevor Thompson 2002 - Most Outrageous Sex Scene per Perverted Stories 31 con Kristen Kane e Rafe 2006 - Best Couples Sex Scene (film) per Dark Side con Penny Flame XRCO Award 1988 - Hall of Fame 2006 - Best On-Screen Couple per Dark Didecon Penny Flame NightMoves Award 2000 - Best Actor
Filmografia Attore
Miss Kinsey's Report, regia di Larry Windsor (1977) Candy Lips (1977) Captain Lust (1977) Honeymoon Haven (1977) Hot Honey (1977) Intimidation (1977) Joy (1977) Lustful Feelings (1977) Night Bird (1977) Odyssey (1977) Passion Seekers (1977) Prey of a Call Girl (1977) Bottoms Up Series 1 (1978) Bottoms Up Series 3 (1978) Giochi maliziosi (Debbie Does Dallas), regia di Jim Clark (1978) Double Your Pleasure (1978) Fur Trap (1978) Hollywood Goes Hard (1978) People (1978) Skin Flicks (1978) Slave of Pleasure (1978) Blonde in Black Silk (1979) Blonds Have More Fun (1979) Candi Girl (1979) For Richer For Poorer (1979) Good Girls of Godiva High (1979) Honeysuckle Rose (1979) Hot Child in the City (1979) Insane Lovers (1979) Object Of Desire (1979) Satin Suite (1979) Sexpert (1979) That's Porno (1979) Tigresses and Other Man-Eaters (1979) 11 (1980) Ballgame (1980) Best of Porno (1980) Blonde (1980) Blonde Ambition (1980) Diamond Collection 9 (1980) Dracula Exotica (1980) Garage Girls (1980) Hot Line (1980) Hungry Holes (1980) Inside Hollywood (1980) Ladies Night (1980) Limited Edition 10 (1980) Limited Edition 17 (1980) Limited Edition 9 (1980) Mai Lin Versus Serena (1980) Odds and Ends (1980) On White Satin (1980) Playthings (1980) Potpourri (1980) Rolls Royce 5 (1980) Rolls Royce 6 (1980) Satisfiers of Alpha Blue (1980) Sexual Heights (1980) Skin on Skin (1980) Swedish Erotica Film 353 (1980) Teenage Housewife (1980) Watermelon Babes (1980) Woman's Dream (1980) 8 to 4 (1981) Aunt Peg's Fulfillment (1981) Beyond Your Wildest Dreams (1981) Blond at Both Ends (1981) Candy Girls 1 (1981) Cells of Passion (1981) Cheryl Hansson: Cover Girl (1981) Desire for Men (1981) Dirty Movies Vol. D (1981) Fantasy Fever (1981) Filthy Rich (1981) Lips (1981) Love Dreams (1981) Mixed Bag (1981) Oriental Madam (1981) Physical (1981) Same Time Every Year (1981) Seka's Fantasies (1981) Sound of Love (1981) Sui marciapiedi di New York (Amanda by Night, 1981) Swedish Erotica 23 (1981) Swedish Erotica 24 (1981) Swedish Erotica 25 (1981) Swedish Erotica 29 (1981) Swedish Erotica 33 (1981) Swedish Erotica 34 (1981) Wet Shots (1981) 1001 Erotic Nights (1982) Beauty (1982) Blonde Next Door (1982) Body Magic (1982) Campus Capers (1982) Challenge of Desire (1982) Diamond Collection 38 (1982) Dirty Looks (1982) Double Pleasure (1982) Every Which Way She Can (1982) Fantasy Trade (1982) Fox Holes (1982) Beauty (1982) Blonde Next Door (1982) Body Magic (1982) Campus Capers (1982) Challenge of Desire (1982) Diamond Collection 38 (1982) Dirty Looks (1982) Double Pleasure (1982) Every Which Way She Can (1982) Fantasy Trade (1982) Fox Holes (1982) Holly McCall's Fantasies (1982) I Like To Watch (1982) Inspirations (1982) Just For Me (1982) Lust Inferno (1982) Memphis Cathouse Blues (1982) My Gun is Hard (1982) Nightlife (1982) Nurses of the 407 (1982) Phaedra Grant's Fantasies (1982) Satisfactions (1982) Sorority Sweethearts (1982) Swedish Erotica 43 (1982) Swedish Erotica 44 (1982) That's my Daughter (1982) Triangle of Lust (1982) Working Girls (1982) Le sexy infermiere (Up 'n' Coming), regia di Stu Segall (1983) Back Door Girls (1983) Bad Girls 2 (1983) Bodies in Heat 1 (1983) Bold Obsessions (1983) California Valley Girls (1983) Carnal Olympics (1983) Caught from Behind 2 (1983) Coffee Tea or Me (1983) Crystal Dawn's Fantasies (1983) Desire (1983) Diamond Collection 43 (1983) Diamond Collection 44 (1983) Diamond Collection 45 (1983) Diamond Collection 46 (1983) Diamond Collection 47 (1983) Eat at the Blue Fox (1983) Erotic Fantasies 1 (1983) Erotic Fantasies 5 (1983) Expose Me Now (1983) Fantasy Follies 1 (1983) Flesh Dance (1983) Flight Sensations (1983) Golden Girls 11 (1983) Golden Girls 7 (1983) Golden Girls Film 113 (1983) Hot Pink: Best Of Alex DeRenzy 2 (1983) Let's Talk Sex (1983) Little Girls Blue 2 (1983) Marathon (1983) Merle Michaels' Fantasies (1983) Moments Of Love (1983) Nasty Nurses (1983) Pleasure Zone (1983) Private Moments (1983) Private Pleasures of a Woman (1983) San Fernando Valley Girls (1983) Sex Star (1983) Summer Camp Girls (1983) Swedish Erotica 49 (1983) Swedish Erotica 50 (1983) Taste of Money (1983) Too Much Too Soon (1983) Tuesday's Lover (1983) Virginia (1983) Wine Me, Dine Me, 69 Me (1983) Working It Out (1983) Yamahama Mamas (1983) Young Like It Hot (1983) Bachelorette Party 1 (1984) Bedtime Video 3 (1984) Bedtime Video 7 (1984) Behind the Scenes of an Adult Movie (1984) Blowing Your Mind (1984) Blue Ribbon Blue (1984) Brooke Does College (1984) Bun Busters (1984) Cathouse Fever (1984) China and Silk (1984) Classical Romance (1984) Collection 8 (1984) Collection 9 (1984) Coming Together (1984) Diamond Collection 55 (1984) Doorman Always Comes Twice (1984) Eighth Erotic Film Festifal (1984) Erotic Radio WSEX (1984) Erotic World of Sunny Day (1984) Fantasy Follies 2 (1984) Flesh Dance Fever (1984) French Postcard (1984) Golden Girls 14 (1984) Hot Ones (1984) House of Pleasure (1984) Hypersexuals (1984) Intimate Couples (1984) Joys of Erotica (1984) Joys of Erotica 107 (1984) Kissin' Cousins (1984) Lingerie (1984) Lusty Ladies 10 (1984) Lusty Ladies 12 (1984) Lusty Ladies 7 (1984) Making it Big (1984) Matinee Idol (1984) Naked Eyes (1984) Nasty Lady (1984) Pink Punk (1984) Pleasure Hunt (1984) Pleasure Productions 3 (1984) Pleasure Productions 5 (1984) Pleasure Productions 7 (1984) Pleasure Productions 8 (1984) Pleasure Productions 9 (1984) Raven (1984) Rear Entry (1984) Scared Stiff (1984) Seka's Teenage Diary (1984) Sex Play (1984) Sexsations (1984) Shanghai Girls (1984) Sister Dearest (1984) Space Virgins (1984) Spectators (1984) Stand By Your Woman (1984) Stiff Competition (1984) Sulka's Daughter (1984) Suze's Centerfolds 8 (1984) Swedish Erotica 54 (1984) Swedish Erotica 55 (1984) Swedish Erotica 59 (1984) Temptation (1984) Touch Of Mischief (1984) Tracie Lords (1984) Untamed Desires (1984) What Gets Me Hot!, regia di Richard Mailer (1984) X-team (1984) Young Girls Do (1984) 2002 : A Sex Odyssey (1985) Adult 45 1 (1985) Amber Aroused (1985) Amber's Desires (1985) Angel's Revenge (1985) Animal Impulse (1985) Backdoor Club (1985) Best Little Whorehouse in San Francisco (1985) Beverly Hills Wives (1985) Blue Ice (1985) Bootsie (1985) Boy Toy (1985) Coming of Angels 2 (1985) Confessions of a Nymph (1985) Corporate Assets (1985) Country Girl (1985) Cumshot Revue 2 (1985) Dames (1985) Dangerous Curves (1985) Diamond Collection 18 (1985) Dirty Detour (1985) Emerald Dimples (1985) Erotic Aerobics (1985) Erotic World of Renee Summers (1985) Erotic Zones 1 (1985) Erotic Zones the Movie (1985) Family Heat (1985) First Annual XRCO Adult Film Awards (1985) Free and Foxy (1985) Futuresex (1985) Ginger On The Rocks (1985) Gourmet Quickies 22 (1985) Heartbreak Girl (1985) Hindsight (1985) Hot Blooded (1985) Hot Wired Vanessa (1985) How Do You Like It (1985) If My Mother Only Knew (1985) Inside Candy Samples (1985) Inspector Cliteau in... the Pink Panties (1985) It's My Body (1985) I've Never Done This Before (1985) Jacuzzi Girls (1985) Kiss of the Gypsy (1985) Letters of Love (1985) Losing Control (1985) Love Button (1985) Lust in Space (1985) Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies 4 (1985) Marina Heat (1985) Midnight Lady (1985) More Than a Handful (1985) Nasty (1985) Nice and Tight (1985) Night Prowlers (1985) One Night in Bangkok (1985) Orifice Party (1985) Passage To Ecstasy (1985) Physical 2 (1985) Pleasure Productions 12 (1985) Pleasure Seekers (1985) Poonies (1985) Porn Birds (1985) Sailing Into Ecstasy (1985) Screaming Desire (1985) Screw Erotic Video 1 (1985) Sex Toys (1985) Sexavision (1985) Showdown (1985) Some Kind Of Woman (1985) Squalor Motel (1985) Swedish Erotica 63 (1985) Swedish Erotica 64 (1985) Swedish Erotica 65 (1985) Swedish Erotica 68 (1985) Take Me (1985) Taste of Candy (1985) Tight and Tender (1985) Tower of Power (1985) Trashy Lady (1985) Triplets (1985) Ultimate O (1985) Vanessa's Bed of Pleasure (1985) Whore of the Worlds (1985) Wild Things 1 (1985) With Love Loni (1985) Yank My Doodle (1985) 6 To 9 Black Style (1986) Amber Pays the Rent (1986) Bachelor's Paradise (1986) Behind the Brown Door (1986) Bizarre Encounters (1986) Black and White Sex (1986) Black Chill (1986) Black To The Future (1986) Blacks And Blondes 37 (1986) Breaking In (1986) Busty Wrestling Babes (1986) Channel 69 (1986) Chocolate Kisses (1986) Club Exotica 1 (1986) Club Exotica 2 (1986) Debbie Duz Dishes (1986) Debbie Goes to College (1986) Debutante (1986) Diamond Collection 73 (1986) Diamond Collection 73 (new) (1986) Doctor Penetration (1986) Double Standards (1986) Down and Dirty in Beverly Hills (1986) Erotic Penetration (1986) Erotic Starlets 1: Stacey Donovan (1986) Erotic Starlets 7: Josephine Carrington (1986) Ex Connection (1986) Forbidden Bodies (1986) Funky Brewster (1986) Gail Force And Friends XXX Workout (1986) Getting Personal (1986) Ginger and Spice (1986) Harem Girls (1986) Hot Gun (1986) Hotel California (1986) In All the Right Places (1986) In and Out in Beverly Hills (1986) In Search of the Golden Bone (1986) Innocent Taboo (1986) Jewel of the Nite (1986) Kiss of the Married Woman (1986) Lottery Fever (1986) Lucy Has a Ball (1986) Luscious Lucy In Love (1986) Mad Sex (1986) Merry X Miss (1986) Midnight Zone (1986) Mouth Watering (1986) Pink and Pretty (1986) Pleasure Spot (1986) Porn in the U.S.A. (1986) Postman Always Comes Twice (1986) Rambone Does Hollywood (1986) Red Garter (1986)