Jon St. Elwood

One of his earliest roles was as Skelly in Mel Damski's 1979 film, The Child Stealer which starred Beau Bridges, Blair Brown and Cristina Raines.[7] Also that year he appeared as Private Reuss in the part 1 of "Good Bye, Radar", from the series M*A*S*H which aired on the 10th of August.[8] He also appeared as Manu in the "Demon's Triangle" episode of A Man Called Sloane which starred Robert Conrad. It aired on October 20, 1979.[9]

In 1980, he appeared as Darryl in an episode of The White Shadow, "The Stripper".[10] He appeared in Tayor Hackford's film Against All Odds which starred Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges and Richard Widmark and James Woods.[11] He played the part of Ahmad Cooper in this 1984 film.[12]

He landed an on-going role as Jazz Jackson in Young & the Restless that went from 1983 to 1986.[13][14] According to Connie Passalacqua's article in The Northwest Arkansas Times. It was after two months of playing his role that his acting ability impressed the powers at Young & the Restless enough to expand his role.[15] Elwwood's character as Mob leg breaker, now a bad-guy-turned-good, Jazz Jackson was already established by the time Phil Morris came in to play his brother Tyrone Jackson.[16][17] The character Jazz who originally got involved with a crime syndicate so he could put younger brother Tyrone through law school,[18] ended up killing mobster Tony DiSalvo would end up working as an operative for PIs, Andy Richards and Paul Williams.[19]

In June, 1985, along with Don Cornelius, Raymond St. Jacques, Bo Svenson and Melba Moore, he was a presenter at the Ninth Annual BRE awards.[20]

Around 1987, he appeared as T-Bone in "Shades", an episode of Hunter which also featured Frank Silvera.[21]

In addition to acting, St. Elwood had written poetry, some of which were published in magazines.