John Dunsworth, 71, on Oct. 16. Born in Bridgewater, NS, Dunsworth studied acting at the University of Guelph and after dropping out in his fourth year, started acting in numerous CBC Radio dramas, as well as stage productions at Halifax’s Neptune Theatre. In 1970, he leased an abandoned building on the Halifax waterfront and founded alternative theatre company Pier One Theatre. He went on to start Filmworks Casting. He met director Mike Clattenburg in the mid-1990s and had a small part in short film One Last Shot, eventually developing that character into alcoholic trailer park supervisor Jim Lahey for comedy series The Trailer Park Boys. Dunsworth also appeared as reporter Dave Teagues on supernatural drama series Haven. Other recent film credits include Sleepmurder (CTV), Blessing (CBS), Shattered City: Halifax Explosion for Salter Street Films and Thom Fitzgerald’s Indie film Three Needles. In 2013, Dunsworth was recognized with an ACTRA Maritimes award for his role in Canadian television series Forgive Me and received a 2005 Gemini Award, with the cast of TPB, for Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program.
Joe Carbury, 88, on Oct. 17. Carbury was originally from Winnipeg, but started his sports career at CHAT Medicine Hat in 1948. Carbury was working as a salesman for Monsanto and was running some radio spots at a local station where he started talking sports with the station manager, who offered him a job. He began his on-air career as play-by-play announcer for the Medicine Hat Tigers and would call CFL games in Calgary and Edmonton, as well as boxing matches. After moving to CFAC Calgary, he started calling thoroughbred racing and famously called the chuckwagon races at Stampede Park, until his retirement in July 2008. Along the way he did play-by-play for the Calgary Centennials of the WCHL, along with curling. Carbury was inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 2003.
Ken Publicover, 60, on Oct. 6, of cancer. After graduating from Loyalist College in 1979, Publicover went to work as a cameraman at CTV Halifax, eventually shifting into the role of Control Room Director. He played a significant role in the development and launch of CTV Halifax’s Live at 5, the first walk-and-talk news broadcast in Canada. Publicover moved to CBC Halifax in 1989, where he helped launch Newsworld. Up until his death, Publicover had been with the public broadcaster for 28 years, most recently as director and switcher.
