John Dunsworth

Acting

John Dunsworth

Born 1946-04-12 · Bridgewater, Nova Scotia

​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.

Acting credits

The Shipping News poster
6.4

An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

The Shipping News

2001

Weirdos poster
6.7

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?

Weirdos

2016

Stone Cold poster
6.8

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.

Stone Cold

2005

Beat Down poster
NR

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.

Beat Down

2012

Take This Waltz poster
6.4

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.

Take This Waltz

2011

Cloudburst poster
6.4

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.

Cloudburst

2011

Lizzie Borden Took an Ax poster
5.8

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.

Lizzie Borden Took an Ax

2014

The Hunt for the BTK Killer poster
5.4

After 31 years at-large, detectives in Wichita, Kansas hone in on the serial killer known as BTK.

The Hunt for the BTK Killer

2005

Serious Miracles poster
8.0

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.

Serious Miracles

2005

Stuck poster
6.2

A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.

Stuck

2007

Pit Pony poster
8.3

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.

Pit Pony

1997

Reversible Errors poster
6.2

A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.

Reversible Errors

2004

New Waterford Girl poster
6.7

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.

New Waterford Girl

1999

The Riverman poster
5.4

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.

The Riverman

2004

Too Young to Be a Dad poster
6.9

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.

Too Young to Be a Dad

2002

The Trailer Park Boys Xmas Special poster
6.9

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.

The Trailer Park Boys Xmas Special

2004

The Lexx: Super Nova poster
5.0

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.

The Lexx: Super Nova

1997

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie poster
6.5

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.

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie

2006

Virginia's Run poster
7.4

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.

Virginia's Run

2002

Deeply poster
6.3

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.

Deeply

2000

Trudeau poster
8.2

This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his vision for his country which has both inspired and frustrated Canadians.

Trudeau

2002

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas poster
5.6

A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

2005

Sweet Angel Mine poster
5.0

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.

Sweet Angel Mine

1996

Trailer Park Boys: Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys poster
7.0

"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)

Trailer Park Boys: Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys

2008

Behind the camera