- Birth nameJoseph John Dunton
- Children
- He is the President of J. Dunton and Company in England.
- He was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1998 Queen's New Year's Honours List for his services to the camera and film industry.
- He is the father of Erica Dunton.
- Honorary Member of the Guild of British Camera Technicians (GBCT).
- [December 2022] Presented Dance Craze (1981) at the 17th 2011 Bradford International Film Festival, hosted at the National Media Museum, Bradford, England [Saturday 26th of March 2011]. The first ever re-release of Dance Craze since its first run in 1981; a film, so far, still, never to have been released on any format as VHS, DVD, Blu-ray etc.
- Film wasn't an interest to begin with. I was an electronics engineer originally and worked as a television engineer for Pye, repairing closed circuit TV systems.
- I worked for six months with Oswald Morris BSC, who was working on Oliver! (1968). He had just shot Stop the World: I Want to Get Off (1966) with the first Mitchell video assist, but on Oliver! there were 400 dancers and he needed something more. So, in 1967, I built what I still believe was the first video assist recorder. It had video and recording, which gave playback for the director.
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