Personal life

St. John has been practicing martial arts since he was five years old and holds a second-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, a first-degree black belt in Judo, and he also practices Kenpo.

His stage name came as his management team at Pat O'Brien Management Talents thought Jason Geiger was not a strong name, with the actor coming up with "St. John" himself, and Austin being suggested by the managers inspired by Steve Austin, from The Six Million Dollar Man.

Power Rangers and acting career

St. John's first major acting role was in 1993, when he starred as Jason Lee Scott, the Red Power Ranger, in Saban Entertainment's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was an instant success and quickly became one of the highest-rated children's television programs ever. However, Austin left the series mid-way through the second season and was replaced as the Red Ranger on the show by Steve Cardenas as Rocky DeSantos, who also played the role of the Red Ranger in the first Power Rangers movie instead of St. John.

St. John later returned to the franchise as the Gold Ranger in Power Rangers: Zeo and in a supporting role as the recently retired-Ranger Jason Lee Scott in the second feature film Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, along with his former castmate Amy Jo Johnson (Kimberly Hart, the original Pink Power Ranger). He also co-hosted the 1999 Power Rangers special titled "The Lost Episode," with his former castmate and close friend Walter Emanuel Jones (Zack Taylor, the original Black Power Ranger), in which they both discussed the history of Power Rangers up to that point and also presented the original, never-before-seen pilot of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

St. John's last Power Rangers appearance was in the tenth anniversary special episode of Power Rangers: Wild Force (2002) entitled Forever Red, where he joined nine other Red Ranger actors from the previous and the then-current season (minus, Steve Cardenas as Rocky DeSantos) to battle and defeat the remnants of the Machine Empire from Power Rangers: Zeo. He once again suited-up as the original MMPR Red Ranger and was reunited with his former cast mate Jason David Frank (Tommy Oliver, the franchise's longest-serving Power Ranger). St. John was also one of the guest speakers who appeared at the 2007 Power Morphicon convention held in Los Angeles, which celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Power Rangers franchise.

After several years of service overseas St. John began making convention appearances in 2014 including a return to Power Morphicon.

St. John will return to the acting world in a upcoming post-apocalyptic thriller called Survival's End.

Filmography

Television

Year	Television program	Portraying	Notes
1993-1994	Mighty Morphin Power Rangers	Jason Lee Scott / Red Power Ranger	Starring role (80 episodes)
1996	Power Rangers: Zeo	Jason Lee Scott / Gold Zeo Ranger	Starring role (17 episodes)
1998	Exposé	Detective Anderson	TV film
1999	Power Rangers: The Lost Episode	Himself / Jason Lee Scott / Red Power Ranger	Co-host / Co-star (original pilot)
2002	Power Rangers: Wild Force	Jason Lee Scott / Red Power Ranger	Guest star ("Forever Red")

Film

Film	Year	Portraying
1995	Encyclopedia of Martial Arts: Hollywood Celebrities	Himself
1997	Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie	Jason Lee Scott

Books

• Austin St. John is the author of the book Karate Warrior: A Beginner's Guide to Martial Arts. - ISBN 1-56138-784-3

[ Source: Wikipedia ]