The Defection of Simas Kudirka is a 1978 American made-for-television drama film based on actual events, featuring Alan Arkin as Simas Kudirka, a Lithuanian...
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Simas Kudirka (9 April 1930 – 11 February 2023) was a Lithuanian sailor. He is best known for the attempted defection from the Soviet Union in 1970 and...
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defecting from the USSR by jumping to the USCGC Vigilant, and who was portrayed in the TV movie The Defection of Simas Kudirka Vincas Kudirka (1858–1899)...
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Gerald W. Abrams (category American people of Polish-Jewish descent)
college environment. The Secret Life of John Chapman was produced for CBS and generated a 44 share. The Defection of Simas Kudirka was executive produced...
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Sanctuary (redirect from Asylum in the Middle Ages)
TV movie The Defection of Simas Kudirka, starring Alan Arkin. Ten years later, Ukrainian youth, Walter Polovchak, became a cause célèbre in the 1980s because...
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Alan Arkin (category American people of German-Jewish descent)
Clouseau in the third installment of The Pink Panther franchise, titled Inspector Clouseau, after Peter Sellers dissociated himself from the role. The film was...
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direction of a special in 1978 for The Defection of Simas Kudirka. His brother was director John Rich. Have Rocket, Will Travel (1959) with the Three Stooges...
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he had a role in the Emmy Award-winning television film The Defection of Simas Kudirka (1978). Blessing would soon guest star in The X-Files, Judging...
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USCGC Vigilant (WMEC-617) (category Ships of the United States Coast Guard)
movie, The Defection of Simas Kudirka, with Alan Arkin playing Kudirka and Donald Pleasence playing the captain of the Soviet ship. In the movie, the USCGC...
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Ted Shackelford (category University of Denver alumni)
1977-1978) The Defection of Simas Kudirka (1978) as Blain The Jordan Chance (1978) as Brian Klosky Ebony, Ivory & Jade (1979) as Barnes The Rockford Files...
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