Terry Farnsworth

Judo career Farnsworth earned a black belt in judo in Montreal, after which he moved to Tokyo to further his training.

At the 1969 Maccabiah Games in Israel, he won a gold medal in the light-heavyweight division. He won the under-93 kg category at the 1972 Canadian Judo Championships, held in Halifax.

Farnsworth represented Canada in the men's half-heavyweight (under 93 kg) event at the 1972 Summer Olympics, finishing in 7th place. He defeated Imre Varga of Hungary and José Ibáñez Gómez of Cuba, but was eliminated after losses to eventual bronze medalist Paul Barth and European Judo Champion Helmut Howiller, both from West Germany.

Farnsworth recounted his experience during the Munich massacre at the 1972 Olympics, in which members of the Palestinian militant group Black September infiltrated the Olympic Village:

I was 50 feet away. I saw... the Arab with the mask, standing on the balcony. I saw the guy. I mean, we had to run underneath where the Israelis were, and one of my buddies had an Israeli friend, went to visit him, and he came back at 1:30 in the morning, and the terrorists came in at about 3:00. So he was an hour and a half away from being dead himself. That was horrible. We were 50 feet away from the whole thing. One interesting story was, separating us was the Korean housing, and when it first happened, I walked down to the Korean apartments, and I saw the door open in one apartment. I see a Korean guy sitting in the window with his rifle, facing the Arabs or where the Israelis were held. He told me he was an ex-American Marine, but he was a Korean citizen. He was on the rifle team. He said, “I’m going to get one of those f*cking Arabs!” ... But they came and took his rifle away!

Film career Farnsworth appeared in several films, including a minor role in Walk, Don't Run (1966), an American comedy starring Cary Grant, and a supporting role in The Drifting Avenger (1968), a Japanese Western filmed in Australia. He also acted in the Japanese tokusatsu science fiction television series Ultraseven (1967–1968).