John Dunsworth
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Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
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Birthday: April 12, 1946
Age: 79 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 16, 2017
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Take This Waltz
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-25
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The Riverman
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-06
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Trailer Park Boys: Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys
Overview: "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)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-07
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Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-25
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Swearnet: The Movie
Overview: Fed up with being censored in their post-Trailer Park Boys lives, the out of work stars/world-renowned 'swearists', Mike Smith, Robb Wells and John Paul Tremblay decide to start their own uncensored network on the internet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-29
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A Hole in One
Overview: A gangster makes an employee pose as a doctor to prevent his troubled girlfriend from getting a lobotomy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-02
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Trailer Park Boys
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-15
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Deeply
Overview: On Ironbound Island, native Fiona McKay arrives from Europe with her teenage daughter Clair, hoping that the peace of the island will help the girl get over the death of her boyfriend. The girl finds comfort in the company of a visiting American girl and more so in the stories of Celia, a crazy old local who weaves enchanting tales which cleverly combine her own experiences on the island with mystifying legends.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-11
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Giga Shadow
Overview: To resupply the protoblood that sustains Kai's life, the crew of the Lexx travel back to the Cluster but find the planet deserted. The population was killed in "The Cleansing", in preparation of the birth of the Giga Shadow, the last survivor of the insect wars and sworn enemy of humanity. The crew try to destroy the Giga Shadow with the help of Yottskry (played by guest star Malcolm McDowell), a defecting priest of the Divine Order.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-11
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I Worship His Shadow
Overview: Fugitive security guard Stanley Tweedle, love slave Zev Bellringer, and love slave robot head 790 are thrown together by fate and on the run from His Divine Shadow after stealing The Lexx: the most powerful destructive force in two universes.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-23
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Super Nova
Overview: As things settle down on the Lexx, the crew realizes Kai needs a constant supply of proto-blood to continue to function in the real world. Stanley and the others undertake a desperate mission to Kai's wrecked home world in search of a way to extend Kai's existence.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-11
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Eating Pattern
Overview: Out of energy, the Lexx is forced to land on a planet to replenish its energy supply. Zev and Stan bury the apparently dead Kai, before they discover an outpost occupied by lunatics led by the manic Bog.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-04
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Treevenge
Overview: 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?
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-07
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New Waterford Girl
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-12
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Cloudburst
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-23
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The Trailer Park Boys Xmas Special
Overview: In this holiday prequel, it’s 1997 and Sunnyvale Trailer Park is getting ready for the holiday season. Julian’s got a great idea to make money this Christmas, Ricky gets confused between God and Santa, and Bubbles tries to get the Boys together for an annual Christmas bonfire. Meanwhile, Mr. Lahey is thrilled because Christmas is the only day of the year that his wife Barb allows him to have a few drinks. Directed by series creator Mike Clattenburg, this hour-long special takes place before Jamie was J-Roc, before Randy and Lahey were a couple, and before the Shitmobile was missing a door.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-12
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John Dunsworth: The Candidate
Overview: In 1988 John Dunsworth, an actor and theatre director (well-known from his role in the award-winning series, Trailer Park Boys) was asked to run under the progressive New Democratic Party ticket in a provincial election in Nova Scotia, Canada. A political novice and an underdog, we watch Dunsworth as he undertakes his grassroots approach. Seeing the campaign through his eyes we come away with a new understanding of the political process.
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Original Language: en
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Lure
Overview: Lure tells the story of unstable post-grad student Rebecca Markowitz who is writing her doctorate on a convicted internet stalker. When a game of revenge enters the picture, Lure deepens and broadens until the story becomes something else entirely, a tale of desperation, release and redemption in the modern-day internet age.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-12
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Serious Miracles
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-10
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Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It
Overview: 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).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-18
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Trailer Park Boys: Live at Red Rocks
Overview: 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.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-25
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Deadly Betrayal: The Bruce Curtis Story
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-02
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Titanic: The Aftermath
Overview: Explores what happened after the Titanic sank: the lives the disaster affected and the changes it brought to sea travel.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-01
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Buried on Sunday
Overview: Angry island fishermen declare independence and use a Soviet nuclear submarine to get Ottawa's attention.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-18
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Trailer Park Boys: Live at the North Pole
Overview: Bubbles and the other boys get a letter from a TPB fan club president in Minneapolis, Minnesota to do a live show at the State Theatre for Christmas. Ricky goes along with it to make nice with Santa Jesus God after a rough-up the previous year, while Julian brings along Randy to sell 60/40 raffle tickets and make some money. Mr. Lahey sneaks along to spoil the boys' fun.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-15
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Trailer Park Boys: Swearnet Live
Overview: "Trailer Park Boys" John Paul Tremblay, Robb Wells and Mike Smith host this foulmouthed live kick-off of their Web-based Swearnet network.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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Beat Down
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-03
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Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed: Live In Austin
Overview: You thought the boys would actually sober up? Not until after they change the world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-09
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Stuck
Overview: A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-21
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Lizzie Borden Took an Ax
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-25
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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Overview: A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-27
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Stone Cold
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-20
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So Long To Run
Overview: A young mother faces hardship in the form of an abusive ex-husband and overzealous social worker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Lighthouse Island
Overview: 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.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
Overview: The boys get arrested for robbing an ATM machine and spend 18 months in jail, upon release they decide to pull off "The Big Dirty", a plan to steal a large amount of coins because they are untraceable and quit their life of crime forever.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-06
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The Hero's Hero: The Forgotten Life of William Barker
Overview: A look at the life of Canada's extraordinary and Forgotten first world war fighter ace.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-19
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Pit Pony
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Family History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-14
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One Last Shot
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-01
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Deep Sea Conspiracy
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Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-10-22
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Sweet Angel Mine
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-17
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The Hunt For the BTK Killer
Overview: After 31 years at-large, detectives in Wichita, Kansas hone in on the serial killer known as BTK.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-09
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The Lot
Overview: A day in the life of an auto dealership in Toronto, ON.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-03
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Ambulance Girl
Overview: The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-12
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Virginia's Run
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-03
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Weirdos
Overview: It's July 1976, and two Nova Scotian teens, Kit and Alice, are hitting the road with their sights on Sydney and their minds on the future. With them is Kit's new imaginary friend, who looks conspicuously like Andy Warhol, but who assures Kit that he is a spirit animal. Kit and Alice have big dreams, but do they really want the same things?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-09
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The Conclave
Overview: In 1458, five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Turk, eighteen cardinals meet to elect a new pope. Rodrigo Borgia, a 27 year old cardinal learns to play a very dangerous game.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-02-16
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Playing the Machines
Overview: Video lottery addiction is a serious problem in Canada, but does the government's need for revenue mean the enormous social costs are being ignored? This is a story about a society hooked on gambling and the people trying to force lottery corporations to come clean and take responsibility for what's happening to people whose lives are being devastated by Playing Machines. Also at the center of the story, a pugnacious Canadian Actor, John Dunsworth (Trailer Park Boys), who's gambling addictions nearly destroyed his career.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-24
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Sir John A. And the Curse of the Anti-Quenched
Overview: Two brothers must break a 150 year old curse on the city of Kingston placed by it's most notorious drunk, Sir John A.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-04
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Too Young to Be a Dad
Overview: When 15-year-old Matt Freeman gets his girlfriend, Francesca, pregnant, her family decides to put the unborn baby up for adoption. Matt agrees to the decision, but begins to rethink it. This movie is taken from the father's point of view.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-10
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