Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper

Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper
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Directed by	Lamont Johnson
Produced by	Les Harris Rob Iveson Stanley Rubin
Written by	Lionel Chetwynd Stanley Rubin
Music by	Peter Jermyn
Cinematography	Albert J. Dunk
Edited by	Leslie Borden Brown Jeff Warren
Production company	CTV Television Network Canadian Film Development Corporation Canamedia Productions Stanley Rubin Productions
Distributed by	Columbia Broadcasting System
Release dates	May 17, 1981 (USA)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States / Canada
Language	English

Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper is a Canadian-American television film from 1981 about the "Canadian Caper" during the Iranian Revolution and hostage crises.^[1]^[2]

Cast

Gordon Pinsent as Kenneth D. Taylor (Ambassador of Canada)
Chris Wiggins as John Sheardown (Canadian diplomat)
Diana Barrington as Zena Sheardown
Robert Joy as Mark Lijek (Consular office)
James B. Douglas as Bob Anders (Consular officer)
Tisa Chang as Pat Taylor (Kenneth Taylor's spouse)
Larry Aubrey as Joseph "Joe" Stafford (Consular officer)
Matsu Anderson as Cora Lijek (Consular assistant)
Julie Khaner as Kathy Stafford (Consular assistant)
Robert Lalonde as Jean Pelletier (Canadian diplomat)
R.H. Thomson as Henry Lee Schatz (Agricultural attaché)
Carl Marotte as Sergeant Lopez (U.S Marine)
Jason Dean as Sergeant Gauthier (U.S Marine)
Jonathan Welsh as Michael Howland
John-Peter Linton as Tomseth
Barbara Gordon as Kathryn 'Katie' Koob (Head of the Iranian-American cultural center)
Tom Berry as Kim King
Hrant Alianak as Iranian Minister
George Bloomfield as Sampson
Maher Boutros as Siad
Jack Blum as Louis LeClerc
Leslie Carlson as Bruce Laingen (United States Chargé d'affaires)

Films directed by Lamont Johnson

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