1. John Francis Dunsworth was a Canadian actor and filmmaker.
18 Facts About John Dunsworth
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John Dunsworth was best known for playing trailer park supervisor Jim Lahey, the antagonist on the comedy series Trailer Park Boys.
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John Francis Dunsworth was born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, on April 12,1946, the son of Frances and Frank Dunsworth.
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John Dunsworth had one older sibling and eight younger siblings.
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John Dunsworth studied theatre at the University of Guelph, but dropped out in his fourth year when the university forced him to take a philosophy course against his wishes.
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John Dunsworth met director Mike Clattenburg in the mid-1990s when he auditioned for a small role in Clattenburg's short film One Last Shot.
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John Dunsworth appeared alongside fellow Trailer Park Boys co-stars John Paul Tremblay and Robb Wells in the film Virginia's Run.
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John Dunsworth starred in Haven, the television adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Colorado Kid.
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John Dunsworth reunited with many of his Trailer Park Boys castmates in the new series The Drunk and On Drugs Happy Fun Time Hour.
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John Dunsworth lived in his native Nova Scotia with his wife, Elizabeth Bates, whom he married in 1974.
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In contrast to his Trailer Park Boys character, John Dunsworth rarely drank alcohol and usually used iced tea as a stand-in for alcohol on the show.
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John Dunsworth admitted to suffering from a gambling problem in his early years.
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John Dunsworth was a boating enthusiast who frequently spent time on his yacht, Emerald Princess, and enjoyed building granite sculptures and structures with stone and concrete; he documented the latter on his YouTube channel.
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John Dunsworth was an avid bridge player and was regarded as a master of the game.
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John Dunsworth once appeared on stage with Guns N' Roses, with frontman Axl Rose describing himself as a fan of Trailer Park Boys and Dunsworth's character in particular.
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On October 16,2017, at the age of 71, John Dunsworth died of an initially undisclosed illness in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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On May 26,2021, a Facebook post by a fan page under the control of John Dunsworth's surviving family and friends revealed complications from thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura as his cause of death.
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John Dunsworth had 70 credits to his name, some of which are listed below.