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The actor and director passed away after a serious illness.
Petras Dimša was born in 1938. In Šadžiūnai, Seinai county.
He graduated in 1977. Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography, where he acquired the specialty of film and television director.
1965 together with the poet Martynas Vainilaitis he founded the Boy’s Pea Theater. Since 1971 he worked for Lithuanian television. He is a director and actor in many television movies. He starred in the popular television series “Relatives”, “Dapkai and Butkai”.
Fatally collided with a cyclist
In 2013, while driving a car and driving in a one-way traffic lane in Vilnius, P. Dimša collided with a cyclist who was killed.
Dimša said in court that it was not him, but the dark car driving in front of him that obstructed the cyclist, pressed him against the pole and kept going. In its ruling, the Lithuanian Supreme Court stated that sufficient evidence had been gathered to allow a definitive conclusion that the road accident that caused the death of a person was caused by a known actor.
2016 The Lithuanian Supreme Court, after examining the cassation case concerning the car accident caused by the actor Petras Dimša, stated that there were no grounds to modify the decisions of these courts, that the evidence was properly evaluated and the criminal law was applied accordingly. reasonable way. The court upheld the 6-year prison sentence in an open colony. P. Dimša was found to be under the influence of alcohol (1.67 per thousand was found in the blood).
In December 2018, the Kaunas Regional Court decided to release P. Dimšas from the Pravieniškės Correctional Center on parole, for which the actor was released prematurely.
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