John Dunsworth

John Dunsworth

Birth : 1946-04-12, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia

Death : 2017-10-16

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   John Dunsworth (April 12, 1946 - October 16, 2017) was a Canadian actor known for playing the frequently drunk trailer park supervisor Jim Lahey on the hit TV show Trailer Park Boys. He has also appeared in Shattered City: The Halifax Explosion, a CBC film about the 1917 Halifax explosion. Dunsworth also has extensive experience in regional theatre. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Dunsworth,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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John Dunsworth

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Trailer Park Boys: Live at Red Rocks
Jim Lahey
Ricky, Julian, Bubbles, Lahey and Randy take to the stage of legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre for a night of greasy fun. Featuring John Dunsworth's final performance as the greatest trailer park supervisor of them all, Jim Lahey.
Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed: Live In Austin
Jim Lahey
You thought the boys would actually sober up? Not until after they change the world.
Swearnet Live
John Dunsworth
"Trailer Park Boys" John Paul Tremblay, Robb Wells and Mike Smith host this foulmouthed live kick-off of their Web-based Swearnet network.
Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It
Jim Lahey
Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It is the third film in the Trailer Park Boys franchise, and a sequel to Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day (2009). In the film, Ricky (Robb Wells), Julian (John Paul Tremblay) and Bubbles (Mike Smith) attempt a series of get-rich-quick schemes after being released from prison, but are again pursued by former Sunnyvale Trailer Park supervisor Jim Lahey (John Dunsworth).
Lizzie Borden Took an Ax
Doctor Bowen
Lizzie Borden Took An Ax chronicles the scandal and enduring mystery surrounding Lizzie Borden, who was tried in 1892 for axing her parents to death. As the case rages on, the courtroom proceedings fuel an enormous amount of sensationalized stories and headlines in newspapers throughout the country, forever leaving Lizzie Borden’s name in infamy.
Beat Down
Cop
Beat Down is an irreverent comedy about wrestling, family and following your dreams no matter how painful that can sometimes be. Fran Whiteway (Marthe Bernard, Republic of Doyle) is eighteen and a real firecracker. More than anything, Fran dreams of becoming a professional wrestler. Her single-father Whitey (Robb Wells, Trailer Park Boys) is a former-pro, aka White Lightning, with broken dreams of his own and is dead set against Fran wrestling. Fran is determined though and when Whitey's old rival Dark Thunder (Tony Nappo, Saw II) comes to town, she runs away to join his tour. Whitey is devastated and while he tries to get his daughter back, Fran learns the ropes of the wrestling game and of life itself.
Titanic: The Aftermath
Fredrick Hamilton
Explores what happened after the Titanic sank: the lives the disaster affected and the changes it brought to sea travel.
Take This Waltz
Tourist
Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.
Cloudburst
Arnold
When Dot's granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Canada so they can get married. They pick up a hitchhiker along the way.
The Lot
Writer
A day in the life of an auto dealership in Toronto, ON.
The Lot
Director
A day in the life of an auto dealership in Toronto, ON.
The Lot
Bob Hayat
A day in the life of an auto dealership in Toronto, ON.
Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day
Jim Lahey
Ricky, Julian and Bubbles are about to get out of jail, and this time, Julian vows to go straight, even open a legit business. Soon the Boys will all be rich. At least that's what they've told the parole board. But when they arrive back at the park, they find it's not the same old Sunnyvale - and it's not the same old Jim Lahey, Trailer Park Supervisor.
Trailer Park Boys: Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys
Jim Lahey
"Say goodnight to the bad guys" picks up where "A Sh*t river runs through it" left off. it's a year after the events of A.S.R.R.T.I and Ricky, Julian, and bubbles are rich with cash, but Julian sits on the money for a year claiming "movies like casino prove that waving money around right away is a bad idea." and then hides it in his newly purchased Delorean (AKA car from back to the future)
Treevenge
Tree Voice
Treevenge details the experiences and horrifying reality of the lives of Christmas trees. Clearly, for trees, Christmas isn’t the exciting “peace on earth” that is experienced by most. After being hacked down, and shipped away from their homes, they quickly become strung up, screwed into an upright position for all to see, exposed in a humiliation of garish decorations. But this Christmas will be different, this Christmas the trees have had enough, this Christmas the trees will fight back. Treevenge could be a short film about the end of days for Christmas trees, or perhaps, the end of humanity?
Stuck
Cabbie
A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
Mr. Lahey
The boys get arrested for robbing an ATM machine and spend 18 months in jail. When the get out, they decide to pull off "The Big Dirty" which is to steal a large amount of coins because they are untraceable and quit their life of crime forever
The Hunt For the BTK Killer
Pastor
After 31 years at-large, detectives in Wichita, Kansas hone in on the serial killer known as BTK.
Ambulance Girl
Chief Vince Melmac
The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic.
Serious Miracles
Mr. Garety
Andy's situation is everyone's: he is alive in this world, with his own sense of reality, while all around him are people who continually attempt to infiltrate his conception of reality with their own.
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Samuels
A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.
Stone Cold
Jim Burns
Jesse Stone is a former L.A. homicide detective who left behind the big city and an ex-wife to become the police chief of the quiet New England fishing town of Paradise. Stone's old habits die hard as he continues to indulge his two favorite things: Scotch whiskey and women. After a series of murders—the first ever in Paradise—and a high school girl is raped, he's forced to face his own demons in order to solve the crimes.
The Riverman
Haney
A series of interviews are conducted with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy in hopes of gaining insight into the Green River Killer who is terrorizing Seattle.
A Hole in One
Pastor
A gangster makes an employee pose as a doctor to prevent his troubled girlfriend from getting a lobotomy.
The Hero's Hero: The Forgotten Life of William Barker
Narrator
A look at the life of Canada's extraordinary and Forgotten first world war fighter ace.
Virginia's Run
Cop
A teenage girl, trying to come to terms with the death of her mother in a horse-riding accident, nurtures the foal of her mother's horse.
New Waterford Girl
A gifted teenager, dreaming of life beyond her small town, becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door.
Trailer Park Boys
Mr. Lahey
After a psychic predicts his death, a small-time hoodlum named Julian hires a cheap documentary film crew to document the last few days of his mis-spent life. This is the film that pioneered the show of the same name.
One Last Shot
In this low-budget short film, two best buddies meet up for a night of booze-fueled fun before one of them moves to Vancouver.
Pit Pony
MacIsaac Smith
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia Canada, 1901. Willie MacLean is a 10-year-old boy with a love for horses and liking to school to cape the difficult times his family has. Willie's stern, but benevolent father is a coal miner in a local mine along with his older brother John. But when Willie's father is injured and John is killed in an accident at the mine, Willie is forced to step into his brother's shoes to support his older sister Nelle, and two younger sisters until their father recovers. Willie soon finds work at the mine lonely (aka: the pit) and unfriendly in which he forms a bond with a pit pony horse in order to make it though each day.
Sweet Angel Mine
Billy Lee
Paul, a young man from London, arrives in the small Nova Scotia town of Milestone, where his long lost father was last seen years earlier. Paul is eager to find out what brought his father to this remote community. He meets Rauchine, a young, beautiful and unaffected girl who lives with her unstable mother and domineering grandmother on a nearby island, who is eking out a harsh and isolated living. Paul finds himself enmeshed in a web of jealousy, bitterness and fear as his attraction to Rauchine begins to grow. After a failed attempt to leave the island with Paul, Rauchine must make a crucial decision and break the cycle of violence and death that has marked her life.
Deadly Betrayal: The Bruce Curtis Story
Attorney #1
A "true crime" docu-drama: in July 1982, Al and Rosemary Podgis were shot dead in their home in New Jersey. Rosemary's son Scott and his Canadian high-school friend Bruce Curtis were charged with their murder. Scott confesses to deliberately shooting his stepfather Al, but Bruce insists that his shooting of Rosemary was accidental.
Lighthouse Island
Sam
When a man visits a remote coastal town to buy a pair of silver shoes for his fiancée, he becomes involved in a dangerous bargain with the shopkeeper. He must retrieve a stolen pearl which has the power to transform the shape of whoever possesses it.
Deep Sea Conspiracy
Mark
So Long To Run
Dennie
A young mother faces hardship in the form of an abusive ex-husband and overzealous social worker.