John Dunsworth

John Dunsworth

Born: April 12, 1946
Died: October 16, 2017
in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
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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.

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Title: Trailer Park Boys: The SwearNet Show
Character: Jim Lahey
Released: September 1, 2022
Type: TV
Take three Trailer Park Boys, add one dysfunctional TV network, stir in a bunch of illicit activity and a healthy dose of profanity. Whaddya get? A combo platter of comedy entertainment that will spawn shipping containers of laughter.
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Trailer Park Boys: Live at Red Rocks
Title: Trailer Park Boys: Live at Red Rocks
Character: Jim Lahey
Released: December 25, 2020
Type: Movie
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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Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed: Live In Austin
Title: Trailer Park Boys: Drunk, High and Unemployed: Live In Austin
Character: Jim Lahey
Released: December 9, 2015
Type: Movie
You thought the boys would actually sober up? Not until after they change the world.
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Trailer Park Boys: Live at the North Pole
Title: Trailer Park Boys: Live at the North Pole
Character: Jim Lahey
Released: November 15, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Trailer Park Boys: Swearnet Live
Title: Trailer Park Boys: Swearnet Live
Character: John Dunsworth
Released: October 1, 2014
Type: Movie
"Trailer Park Boys" John Paul Tremblay, Robb Wells and Mike Smith host this foulmouthed live kick-off of their Web-based Swearnet network.
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Lure
Title: Lure
Character: Professor Reynolds
Released: September 12, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Swearnet: The Movie
Title: Swearnet: The Movie
Character: Himself
Released: August 29, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It
Title: Trailer Park Boys: Don't Legalize It
Character: Jim Lahey
Released: April 18, 2014
Type: Movie
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).
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Lizzie Borden Took an Ax
Title: Lizzie Borden Took an Ax
Character: Doctor Bowen
Released: January 25, 2014
Type: Movie
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.
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Beat Down
Title: Beat Down
Character: Cop
Released: August 3, 2012
Type: Movie
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.
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Titanic: The Aftermath
Title: Titanic: The Aftermath
Character: Fredrick Hamilton
Released: April 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Explores what happened after the Titanic sank: the lives the disaster affected and the changes it brought to sea travel.
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Take This Waltz
Title: Take This Waltz
Character: Tourist
Released: November 25, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Cloudburst
Title: Cloudburst
Character: Arnold
Released: September 23, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The Drunk and On Drugs Happy Fun Time Hour
Released: July 22, 2011
Type: TV
The Drunk and On Drugs Happy Funtime Hour is a Canadian television comedy series, airing in the 2011 television season on Action. Described by its producers as "Curb Your Enthusiasm after it got smashed in the head with a hammer and force-fed liquor and drugs", the show stars former Trailer Park Boys actors John Paul Tremblay, Robb Wells and Mike Smith as fictionalized versions of themselves. The fictional trio are starring in a new sketch comedy series, Happy Funtime Hour, but their production goes awry when a mad scientist named Doctor Funtime forces them to ingest a hallucinogenic substance he created. The actors must go through unpredictable events while constantly meeting different characters.
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The Lot
Title: The Lot
Character: Bob Hayat
Released: February 3, 2011
Type: Movie
A day in the life of an auto dealership in Toronto, ON.
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Title: Haven
Character: Dave Teagues
Released: July 9, 2010
Type: TV
FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.
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Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day
Title: Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day
Character: Jim Lahey
Released: September 25, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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Trailer Park Boys: Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys
Title: Trailer Park Boys: Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys
Character: Jim Lahey
Released: December 7, 2008
Type: Movie
"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)
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Treevenge
Title: Treevenge
Character: Tree (voice)
Released: July 7, 2008
Type: Movie
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?
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Stuck
Title: Stuck
Character: Cabbie
Released: May 21, 2007
Type: Movie
A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.
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Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
Title: Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
Character: Mr. Lahey
Released: October 6, 2006
Type: Movie
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
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The Hunt For the BTK Killer
Title: The Hunt For the BTK Killer
Character: Pastor
Released: October 9, 2005
Type: Movie
After 31 years at-large, detectives in Wichita, Kansas hone in on the serial killer known as BTK.
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Ambulance Girl
Title: Ambulance Girl
Character: Chief Vince Melmac
Released: September 12, 2005
Type: Movie
The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic.
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Serious Miracles
Title: Serious Miracles
Character: Mr. Garety
Released: September 10, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Title: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Character: Samuels
Released: March 27, 2005
Type: Movie
A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.
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Stone Cold
Title: Stone Cold
Character: Jim Burns
Released: February 20, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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The Trailer Park Boys Xmas Special
Title: The Trailer Park Boys Xmas Special
Character: Jim Lahey
Released: December 12, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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The Riverman
Title: The Riverman
Character: Haney
Released: September 6, 2004
Type: Movie
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.
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A Hole in One
Title: A Hole in One
Character: Pastor
Released: May 2, 2004
Type: Movie
A gangster makes an employee pose as a doctor to prevent his troubled girlfriend from getting a lobotomy.
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The Hero's Hero: The Forgotten Life of William Barker
Title: The Hero's Hero: The Forgotten Life of William Barker
Character: Narrator
Released: March 19, 2003
Type: Movie
A look at the life of Canada's extraordinary and Forgotten first world war fighter ace.
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Virginia's Run
Title: Virginia's Run
Character: Cop
Released: March 3, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Trailer Park Boys
Character: James 'Jim' Lahey
Released: April 22, 2001
Type: TV
Follow the booze-fueled misadventures of three longtime pals and petty serial criminals who run scams from their Nova Scotia trailer park.
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Title: Trailer Park Boys
Character: Mr. Layhie
Released: April 22, 2001
Type: TV
Follow the booze-fueled misadventures of three longtime pals and petty serial criminals who run scams from their Nova Scotia trailer park.
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Deeply
Title: Deeply
Character: Voice of Urban (voice)
Released: September 11, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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New Waterford Girl
Title: New Waterford Girl
Released: September 12, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Trailer Park Boys
Title: Trailer Park Boys
Character: Mr. Lahey
Released: July 15, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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One Last Shot
Title: One Last Shot
Character: Mr. Layhie
Released: September 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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.
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Pit Pony
Title: Pit Pony
Character: MacIsaac Smith
Released: December 14, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Giga Shadow
Title: Giga Shadow
Character: Running Man
Released: September 11, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Eating Pattern
Title: Eating Pattern
Character: Divine Predecessor (voice)
Released: September 4, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Super Nova
Title: Super Nova
Character: Divine Predecessor (voice)
Released: May 11, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Lexx
Character: Old Cracker / Voice of Pilot
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: TV
A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.
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Title: Lexx
Character: Divine Predecessor (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: TV
A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.
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Title: Lexx
Character: Guard
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: TV
A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.
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Title: Lexx
Character: White Rook (voice)
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: TV
A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.
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Title: Lexx
Character: Lett
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: TV
A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.
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Title: Lexx
Character: Reporter
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: TV
A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.
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Title: Lexx
Character: Berf
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: TV
A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.
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Title: Lexx
Character: Video Asteroid Commander
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: TV
A Time Prophet predicted that Kai would be the one to destroy the divine order in the league of the 20,000 planets, someday that will happen, but not today. Today a cowardly security guard, an undead assassin, a female with a body designed for sex and a robot head madly in love with her all make up the crew of the spaceship Lexx, the most powerful weapon in the two universes.
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I Worship His Shadow
Title: I Worship His Shadow
Character: Video Asteroid Commander
Released: December 23, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Sweet Angel Mine
Title: Sweet Angel Mine
Character: Billy Lee
Released: September 17, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Buried on Sunday
Title: Buried on Sunday
Character: Reporter
Released: September 18, 1992
Type: Movie
Angry island fishermen declare independence and use a Soviet nuclear submarine to get Ottawa's attention.
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Deadly Betrayal: The Bruce Curtis Story
Title: Deadly Betrayal: The Bruce Curtis Story
Character: Attorney #1
Released: February 2, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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Lighthouse Island
Title: Lighthouse Island
Character: Sam
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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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Deep Sea Conspiracy
Title: Deep Sea Conspiracy
Character: Mark
Released: October 22, 1987
Type: Movie
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So Long To Run
Title: So Long To Run
Character: Dennie
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A young mother faces hardship in the form of an abusive ex-husband and overzealous social worker.
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John Dunsworth: The Candidate
Title: John Dunsworth: The Candidate
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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.