The Great Escape

The Great Escape (1963)Cast and Crew

Movie"Put a fence in front of these men... and they'll climb it!"

Cast

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Steve McQueen
as Hilts 'The Cooler King'
J
James Garner
as Hendley 'The Scrounger'
R
Richard Attenborough
as Bartlett 'Big X'
J
James Donald
as Ramsey 'The SBO'
C
Charles Bronson
as Danny 'Tunnel King'
D
Donald Pleasence
as Blythe 'The Forger'
J
James Coburn
as Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'
H
Hannes Messemer
as Von Luger 'The Kommandant'
D
David McCallum
as Ashley-Pitt 'Dispersal'
G
Gordon Jackson
as MacDonald 'Intelligence'
J
John Leyton
as Willie 'Tunnel King'
A
Angus Lennie
as Ives 'The Mole'
N
Nigel Stock
as Cavendish 'The Surveyor'
R
Robert Graf
as Werner 'The Ferret'
J
Jud Taylor
as Goff
H
Hans Reiser
as Herr Kuhn
H
Harry Riebauer
as Stratwitch
W
William Russell
as Sorren
R
Robert Freitag
as Capt. Posen
U
Ulrich Beiger
as Preissen
G
George Mikell
as Lt. Dietrich
L
Lawrence Montaigne
as Haynes ('Diversions')
R
Robert Desmond
as Griffith 'Tailor'
T
Til Kiwe
as Frick
H
Heinz Weiss
as Kramer
T
Tom Adams
as Dai Nimmo ('Diversions')
K
Karl-Otto Alberty
as S.S. Officer Steinach

Crew

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John Sturges
Producer
J
John Sturges
Director
J
James Clavell
Screenplay
P
Paul Brickhill
Novel
W
W.R. Burnett
Screenplay
J
James Clavell
Producer
E
Elmer Bernstein
Original Music Composer
D
Daniel L. Fapp
Director of Photography
F
Ferris Webster
Editor
F
Fernando Carrere
Art Direction
W
Walter Mirisch
Executive Producer
J
Jay Sebring
Hair Designer
L
Loren Janes
Stunt Double
R
Robert E. Relyea
Production Office Assistant
A
Allen K. Wood
Production Supervisor
J
Jack N. Reddish
Assistant Director
J
John Franco
Script Supervisor
R
Richard Carruth
Music Editor
W
Wayne Fury
Sound Effects Editor
K
Kurt Ripberger
Set Decoration
F
Frank Agnone
Property Master
E
Emile LaVigne
Makeup Artist
A
A. Paul Pollard
Special Effects
B
Bert Henrikson
Wardrobe Supervisor
D
Don Tomlinson
Assistant Editor
S
Steve McQueen
Stunt Driver
R
Roy Jenson
Stunts
S
Sam Freed Jr.
Musician

The Great Escape Collection

The Great Escape is a 1963 American epic war suspense adventure film based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 non-fiction book of the same name. The film depicts a heavily fictionalized version of the mass escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from German POW camp Stalag Luft III during the Second World War. A fictional, made-for-television sequel, The Great Escape II: The Untold Story, was released in 1988. The film is not a true sequel as it dramatizes the escape itself just as the original film does, although mostly using the real names of the individuals involved (whereas the original film fictionalized them and used composite characters). It depicts the search for the culprits responsible for the murder of the 50 Allied officers.