John Trent (1935, London - June 3, 1983, Snelgrove, Ontario, Canada)[1] was a British-born Canadian film director.
[2] He directed such films as Homer, Middle Age Crazy, and It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time.
and Wojeck, based on the career of the controversial Dr. Morton Shulman, then Toronto’s chief coroner.
[4][5] Trent died in a road accident while returning from delivering his son, who was the Ontario Under 16 show-jumping champion, to an event.
He was killed by a police car which came around a bend on the wrong side, and hit his compact Cadillac head-on.