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

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)

See also

• Argo (2012 film)

External links

• Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper at IMDb