Pat John, beloved as Beachcombers' Jesse Jim, dies at 69 via coast_reporter
Pat John, a member of the shíshálh Nation who gained international stardom in the role of Jesse Jim on the long-running Beachcombers television series, died on Wednesday, July 13, at a relative’s house in his hometown of Sechelt. He was 69 years old and had experienced a decline in health over several years.John's death comes only three months before the 50th anniversary of the iconic series, which first aired in October 1972. Filming began in Gibsons on September 11, 1971.
In John's character as the stalwart business partner to log salvager Nick Adonidas, played by Bruno Gerussi, he led a vanguard of Indigenous television actors in iconoclastic parts. Chief Dan George, a member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation who earned an Academy Award nomination in 1970 for playing an archetypal tribal leader in Little Big Man, was cast in Beachcombers as a contemporary chief managing complex issues like territorial rights and the ecological impacts of industry.
Beachcombers became syndicated and shown in over 50 countries. Early in the series, the pressure of John's sudden status as an internationally-regarded role model for Indigenous youth caused problems. In March 1974, he was briefly fired after leading police in a high-speed chase to Earl's Cove. Gerussi stood by his co-star, telling the Vancouver Province,"If Pat John goes, I go." John was reinstated, and the two remained lifelong friends until Gerussi's death in 1995.
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