John Wilkes (Actor)

**Birth Date:** 8 October 1944
 **Death Date:** 1 March 2022 (age 77)
 **Occupation:** .
***Former:***
Cab Driver (19?? - 1994)
Non-Commercial Fisherman (19?? - 2014, 2021)
 **Family:** Violet Wilkes (mother, d. 2002/2003)
Jack Wilkes (father, d. 2002/2003)
Sam Wilkes Holahan (son, d. 2019)
Sam Wilkes Jr. (grandson, d. 2020)
Sam Wilkes Sr. (substitute son)
* Sam Wilkes Holahan (recurring 2015 - 2018)
* Lyn Drummond

Susan Drummond
Tigerair (for late domestic flights)
Monstrous (for getting under foot)
Sam Wilkes Holahan (often until death in 2019)
Sam Wilkes Jr. (2019 - 2020)
Sam Wilkes Sr. (2020-)
 **Last appearance:** Psycho Dad: The Movie 7 (2021) (movies)

John Wilkes

## About John Wilkes

John Wilkes (8 October 1944 - 1 March 2022) was an Australian actor and Sam's biological dad who is well known as the Psycho Dad character in Island Life, The Psycho Videos as well as in all eight Psycho Dad movies in The Psycho Videos franchise. He was the main antagonist in The Psycho Videos. He was also a songwriter and is the original artist of his song "Time". He has an unknown son that Austin Holahan and Sam Wilkes Sr. had not known about. His hidden son is never mentioned or known.

## John's Early History (1944 - 1962)

He was born while World War 2 was still going, a few years after the 1930s great depression ended. World War II ended in 1945.

John was born to parents Jack and Violette Wilkes. John was born in Bankstown, New South Wales.

## Travel Life (1962 - 1973)

Eventually, he moved up to Queennsland. John has gone to numerous locations in Queensland with a strong focus along eastern Queensland coast including Tully, Townsville, Sarina, Proserpine among many other suburbs and had worked on so many different jobs, even as a banana collector at one time. John had moved to Karumba in the late 60s or early 70s with one of his former girlfriends.

## Karumba Floods and Aftermath (1974 - 1994)

John had lived in Karumba before and during the 1974 floods of Australia where most locations were isolated by flood waters. He had moved away from there in the mid 1970s and would return to visit in September 2007 and return to reside there in 2008. Until then, he relocated back to Brisbane. John was also a cab driver for an unknown amount of time up until around 1994.

## Partnership with Lyn (1995 - 2015)

#### Living in South East Queensland (1995 - 2008)

In late 1995, John had a partner staying with him although by 1996, he visited Lyn and his friend which had continued after John got his son in 1998. He had also settled family issues during the new Millennium. John and Lyn eventually started living with each other, with Sam and Sam's brother. These four then began a new chapter in their life until a family member departed from the family in February 2008. With Ethan moving out to live with his biological father, Lyn, Sam and John moved up to North Queensland in 2008 (Lyn and Sam not approving this idea at the beginning), opening a new chapter of their lives.

#### Living in North Queensland (2008 - 2015)

He had lived in Karumba from 2008 to 2013. He had won from a pokies machine during his time up there and had participated in golf events on selected Sundays. He had previously visited up there in September 2007. After his son graduated from primary school, John got a professional fisherman license in 2012 for commercial fishing in the Gulf. John had retired from professional fishing in the later half of 2012. In 2013, him, Sam and Lyn moved to Innisfail, where a family that used to live in Karumba until 2010 lived in Mourilyan until 2014 when the family moved to Cooktown, and then, Sam and his parents moved to Kurrimine Beach in 2014. For the next six years, John lived there. His partnership with Lyn suffered in the final few years and the final straw was 14 June 2015, after he made a threat to her in retaliation for the clogged outhouse on the previous day. His 19 year partnership with Lyn ended on Sam's 17th Birthday. The final two months of Sam and Lyn's stay in Kurrimine Beach was added in to Psycho Dad: The Movie (2015 film) later in 2015, later released in 2017 after experiencing rendering problems. As of 2020, some of the film archive still exists (some original footage only).

## Aftermath and Lonely Life (2015 - 2017)

On 2nd June 2016, he was referred to the hospital at about 10:00pm after suffering a heart attack at around that time in Kurrimine Beach. He contacts Sam on Skype every week. He has tried to find other women to replace Lynette Drummond but unfortunately, regardless of the situation, his relationships end up not working too well, maybe because of The Psycho Videos, because of his old age of 72 or because of Visa conditions from those that live overseas. He has since decided to live alone, as said on Connecting Singles. On 12th June 2017, John was taken to hospital after feeling dizzy for quite some time. He later returned at around 4 o'clock the next morning, after being dismissed by staff at the hospital.

## His Final Years (2018 - 2022)

### Life at Kurrimine Beach (2018 - 2020)

He got some new wheels from Innisfail in early 2018, shortly after Sam's PAW Patrol departure in 31 December 2017. John has confirmed that he will not appear in any more movies or TV shows after the end of 2018 but had appeared in Psycho Dad: The Movie 5 & 6. Sam (renamed to Austin in July 2018) will return to Brisbane again and then back to Adventure Bay before Christmas. John had been in declining health throughout 2019 but kept fit. He had lived to his son's 21st birthday. In July 2019, John had been involved in a car accident. Much to the amazement of Austin, the Ford Falcon has not been destroyed. The car was not involved in the car accident either. This accident left John severely injured. In August, his son died but this didn't affect John since Austin Holahan planned to continue Skype chats weekly. Psycho Dad had wanted to rent a property in isolating islands.

### Final Chapter at Russell Island (2020 - 2022)

In March 2020, he announced he will move away from the mainland of Queensland to a Moreton Bay island on 1 May 2020. His son moved in with him a month later on 4 June. Since then, he has done numerous amounts of wrongdoing. Sam Wilkes Sr. has described the situation as "driving self or others to an early grave". On July 1 and several days afterwards, he has verbally threatened, used, blackmailed and other means to his substitute son, leading his son to an early grave. Sam Wilkes Sr. really wants to escape Psycho Dad's but cannot rent, buy or otherwise move elsewhere because he has NO credit, NO referees and cannot afford accommodation. In 2021, Psycho Dad's driver door on his AU Falcon had been partially destroyed in the Russell Island IGA parking lot and investigated in to finding a replacement door and eventually accepted an AU III door and he somehow installed the replacement door, while fixing his partially broken front bumper pillar, which was a little destroyed along with the driver's side car door. On September 7, his car ended service in a car crash, he luckily survived. It was later revealed he had cancer. He made his last public appearance on 5 December 2021 singing Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clearwater Revival at the local RSL.

#### Prawn Season (up until 2013, 2021)

One of the many notable activities is Psycho Dad's participation of prawn hunting during the prawn season. 2012 was his final season before he finally gave up this and moved to Innisfail so his son can go to high school due to the 2009 Queensland schooling laws. He returned for a second attempt at this in 2021, this time with another boat, albeit smaller and slower than the old one. He later announced that 2021 is his last prawn season because of his increasing age.

## Television Career (2015 - 2022)

### The Life of TheBrisbaneKid Career (2015 - 2017)

He was on Season 1 and 7 of The Life of TheBrisbaneKid (known as The Life of CigarettesAshtray in Season 1). He was confirmed to be in two additional seasons of The Life of TheBrisbaneKid, but these additionals have not broadcasted and since the laptop's demise, he'll never be shown on The Life of TheBrisbaneKid 2015 and 2018 series.

Signed on: 14th June 2015

Signed off: 18th December 2017

Duration: 2015 - 2017 (Jun 2015, Dec 2015 - Jan 2016, Nov 2016 - Dec 2016, Dec 2017)

### Island Life (2020 - 2022)

Despite only having a minor role in Season 1 and a regular role in Season 7 in the original 2015 series of The Life of TheBrisbaneKid, he got a regular major role in the 2020 reboot of the series, now named Island Life. Since the death of his son in 2019, ye is the only original actor to portray his original character in both the 2015 series of The Life of TheBrisbaneKid and the 2020 reboot series "Island Life".

### Psycho Dad: The Movie (2015 - 2021)

He was shown in My Psycho Dad: The Movie and Psycho Dad: The Movie 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Psycho Dad made his next appearance in the 7th movie filmed in May 2020 and then again in his last movie in 2021. John's advancing age, significant loss of hearing and increasing financial troubles all played a part and thus why he wasn't featured on TV or movies other than Island Life.

### Actor visitations (2015 - 2020)

#### **Austin Holahan (2015 - 2018)**

On 22 December 2015, Austin had gone to visit John to film the 2nd Psycho Dad film. During filming in January 2016, John says he likes to be organized. If there is something that is where it shouldn't be, he said that it could be anywhere and that half the time, it doesn't even exist. Austin returned on 22 November to film the 3rd Psycho Dad movie. However, Austin returned to Brisbane on 15 December 2016, leaving John lonely once again. On 4th December 2017, Austin again returned to film for the 4th movie, but again gone back to Brisbane on 18th December, in time for Christmas before moving to Adventure Bay at the end of the month. Despite this, he returned to Queensland one last time on December 3, 2018 to film the 5th movie before returning to Brisbane and Adventure Bay two weeks later, as planned.

He has confirmed that these subsequent returns was to film the four sequels. In December, he announced that his visits with Psycho Dad are over because of long flights, excessive sneezing, increased intensity of some situations with Psycho Dad, alongside his frail health. Austin later gone in to a coma in April 2019 from poor health, mainly from an incident during recovery of the surgery he had in February 2016 before he died in Adventure Bay Hospital in August 2019. Sam Wilkes Jr. would visit Psycho Dad shortly afterwards.

#### **Sam Wilkes Jr. (2020)**

In November, it was confirmed that Sam Wilkes Jr. was to be the next candidate to film the epilogue movie Psycho Dad: The Movie 6. Sam then confirmed that no movies are to follow because of the crazy fights with John, excessive sneezing, long holiday durations, long flights and lack of emergency services. He announced he would help Psycho Dad settle in on a Moreton Bay Island in May 2020. Sam Wilkes Jr. later died which left Sam Wilkes Sr. as John's last hope.

#### **Sam Wilkes Sr. (2020)**

On May 3-4, Sam and John made their way up to Kurrimine Beach, emptying the house over the course of 5-6 days. These two then made the trip southbound. These two made it back to the Moreton Bay Islands by May 9. The southbound trip is added to the movie as Psycho Dad: The Movie 7. He later moved in with Psycho Dad on June 4[1], later regretting the decision but was better off with Psycho Dad as opposed to the previous home where he was abused for the last three months. While living with Psycho Dad, he filmed Psycho Dad: The Movie 8 and made it the final film in the franchise.

## Victims

Below is the list of items that were destroyed or harmed in any way.

## TV and Filmography (INCOMPLETE)

### TV Show Appearances

absent. Eventually left when Sam rejoined in
 2012
 2015 - 2017
 2017 - 2018
 2020 - 2022
Dad
not shown in all episodes, the other is Uncle Thomas.

### Movie Appearances

Dad
 2016
 2020

## Likes and dislikes

**Likes:**

Sam Wilkes Holahan (in certain situations)

Ford (up until 2021)

Mitsubishi (2014 - 2016, 2021 - 2022)

**Dislikes:**

Lynette Drummond

Clogged Outhouses

Late Flights

Faulty products

Difficult Procedures

Home and Away

Brisbane

All cities in Australia

Big towns in Queensland

Incompetent People (including Politicians)

Monstrous (bad behaviour)

Busy Traffic

Road Works (including those that congest traffic which is not necessary)

Holden/Chevrolet

All Japanese car manufacturers (except Mitsubishi in 2014 - 2016, 2021 - 2022)

### Quoted Lines

"Come on, put something up there that you can use!" (to the Mahjongg game)

"Zilch!" (sometimes when announcing his score on Island Life)

## Psycho Appearances

Videos Highlighted in Bold are his appearances.