1. David Harold Yost is an American actor and producer.
22 Facts About David Yost
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David Yost moved around the United States while winning many national gymnastics competitions, most notably the state championships in Iowa and Montana.
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David Yost starred in almost 200 episodes of the show's first four seasons.
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David Yost was the only cast member to appear in every single episode of the original series; his character never changed his colors or passed on his power coins to successors like the rest of the original cast.
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David Yost left the show toward the end of the Power Rangers Zeo season.
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David Yost left late in the fourth season after a week of contemplation and thoughts of suicide instead of continuing work another six months into the second film.
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David Yost stated that the co-workers involved with writing, filming, and producing the show considered him "not worthy" to be where he was and that he "could not be a superhero" because of his homosexuality.
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Scott Page-Pagter, a producer of the show starting with Power Rangers Zeo, responded through TMZ that David Yost actually left over a pay bonus being dropped but did not elaborate further or dispute any of David Yost's claims about the outside reasons for leaving the show.
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David Yost starred as Josh White in the film Scene of the Crime.
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David Yost portrayed a Playboy photographer in the television film After Diff'rent Strokes: When the Laughter Stopped.
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David Yost was an associate producer for another television film, The Mary Kay Letourneau Story.
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David Yost first tried producing in 2001, working on the series Alien Hunter and Temptation Island.
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David Yost worked as the director of production for Sci-Fi Lab, headed by the Sci-Fi Channel.
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David Yost then became the manager of licensing for Geneon, where he sold television shows and films to such networks as Showtime, Starz, Encore, and Cartoon Network.
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In 2002, David Yost performed in a play called Fallen Guardian Angels in Los Angeles for AIDS Project Los Angeles.
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The entire production raised over $25,000 and David Yost himself raised $5,000 for the hospital, as well as receiving good reviews from LA Weekly Theater.
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David Yost appeared at the Anime Festival Orlando in Florida in August 2010.
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David Yost appeared at Power Morphicon 2012 and 2014 in Pasadena, California along with his former co-stars.
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David Yost appeared alongside his friend and former Power Rangers co-star, Amy Jo Johnson in one of Johnson's Stageit webcast shows in 2014.
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In 2016, David Yost became co-owner of Affirmative Clothing along with Harlingen, Texas entrepreneurs Mason and Cris Andrade.
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In May 2018, shortly after Hasbro acquired the Power Rangers franchise, David Yost expressed his desire to help produce a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers reunion film for Netflix.
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In September 2022, it was announced that David Yost was returning to the Power Rangers franchise for a 30th-anniversary special, accompanied by original Black Ranger actor Walter Emanuel Jones as well as former co-stars Steve Cardenas, Johnny Yong Bosch, Karan Ashley, and Catherine Sutherland.