
Jody St. Michael's cameo in The Country Bears
Jody St. Michael is a mime who has occasionally worked as a suit performer. He performed in the Jim Henson's Creature Shop projects Dinosaurs (as the Clerk in "The Son Also Rises" and an additional dinosaur performer in "Steroids to Heaven"), George of the Jungle (as a gorilla), and The Country Bears (as Tennessee O'Neil).
St. Michael has been seen as a gorilla performer in the film Gorillas in the Mist, the TV movie The Last Chance Detectives: Legend of the Desert Bigfoot, and episodes of X-Files and Father Dowling Mysteries. Other film credits include Hellraiser: Bloodline (as a dog beast) and Monkeybone (as a centaur), while additional TV work includes guest spots on CHiPs (outside of a costume for a change) and on the Sci-Fi series The Chronicle (as yet another creature).