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The Great Escape (4-Jul-1963)

Director: John Sturges

Writers: James Clavell (screenplay); W. R. Burnett (screenplay)

Based on a book by: Paul Brickhill

Keywords: Action/Adventure, Prisoner of War, WWII

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Richard Attenborough
Film Director
29-Aug-1923   Gandhi
Charles Bronson
Actor
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James Coburn
Actor
31-Aug-1928 18-Nov-2002 Our Man Flint
James Donald
Actor
18-May-1917 3-Aug-1993 Third Man on the Mountain
James Garner
Actor
7-Apr-1928   Jim Rockford on Rockford Files
Gordon Jackson
Actor
19-Dec-1923 15-Jan-1990 Butler on Upstairs, Downstairs
David McCallum
Actor
19-Sep-1933   Illya on The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Steve McQueen
Actor
24-Mar-1930 7-Nov-1980 Badass
Donald Pleasence
Actor
5-Oct-1919 2-Feb-1995 The Great Escape

CAST

Steve McQueen   ...   Capt. Virgil Hilts (The Cooler King)
James Garner   ...   Flight Lt. Bob Anthony Hendley (The Scrounger)
Richard Attenborough   ...   Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett (Big X)
James Donald   ...   Group Capt. Rupert Ramsey (The SBO)
Charles Bronson   ...   Flight. Lt. Danny Velinski (The Tunnel King)
Donald Pleasence   ...   Flight Lt. Colin Blythe (The Forger)
James Coburn   ...   Flying Officer Louis Sedgwick (The Manufacturer)
Hannes Messemer   ...   Col. von Luger (Prison Commandant)
David McCallum   ...   Lt. Cmdr. Eric Ashley-Pitt (Dispersal)
Gordon Jackson   ...   Flight Lt. Sandy MacDonald (Intelligence)
John Leyton   ...   Flight Lt. William Dickes (The Tunneler)
Angus Lennie   ...   Flying Officer Archibald Ives (The Mole)
Nigel Stock   ...   Flight Lt. Denys Cavendish (The Surveyor)
Robert Graf   ...   Werner (The Ferret)
Jud Taylor   ...   Goff
Hans Reiser   ...   Herr Kuhn
Harry Riebauer   ...   Sgt. Strachwitz (German)
William Russell   ...   Sorren
Robert Freitag   ...   Capt. Posen
Ulrich Beiger   ...   Preissen
George Mikell   ...   Lt. Dietrich
Lawrence Montaigne   ...   Hayes (Diversions)
Robert Desmond   ...   Griffith (Tailor)
Til Kiwe   ...   Frick
Heinz Weiss   ...   Kramer
Tom Adams   ...   Dai Nimmo (Diversions)
Karl-Otto Alberty   ...   Steinach (German Officer)

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