The Great Escape (film) - Cast

Cast

• Steve McQueen as Captain Virgil Hilts USAAF, "The Cooler King"
• James Garner as Flight Lieutenant Bob Hendley DFC RAF, "The Scrounger"
• Richard Attenborough as Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett DFC RAF, "Big X"
• James Donald as Group Captain Ramsey DSO MC RAF, "The SBO "
• Charles Bronson as Flight Lieutenant Danny Velinski DSC DFC RAF, a "tunnel king"
• Donald Pleasence as Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe RAF, "The Forger"
• James Coburn as Flying Officer Louis Sedgwick RAAF, "The Manufacturer"
• Hannes Messemer as Oberst von Luger, "The Kommandant"
• David McCallum as Lieutenant-Commander Eric Ashley-Pitt DSC RN, "Dispersal"
• Gordon Jackson as Flight Lieutenant Andy 'Mac' MacDonald RAF, "Intelligence"
• John Leyton as Flight Lieutenant William 'Willie' Dickes RAF, a "tunnel king"
• Angus Lennie as Flying Officer Archibald 'Archie' Ives RAF, "The Mole"
• Nigel Stock as Flight Lieutenant Denis Cavendish RAF, "The Surveyor"
• Robert Graf as Werner, "The Ferret"
• Jud Taylor as First Lieutenant Goff USAAF
• Harry Riebauer as Hauptfeldwebel Strachwitz, "The Security Sergeant"
• William Russell as Flight Lieutenant Sorren RAF, "Security"
• Robert Freitag as Hauptmann Posen, "The Adjutant"
• Ulrich Beiger as Preissen, Gestapo
• George Mikell as SS-Obersturmführer Dietrich
• Lawrence Montaigne as Flying Officer Haynes RCAF, "Diversions"
• Robert Desmond as Flying Officer 'Griff' Griffith RAF, "The Tailor"
• Til Kiwe as Frick, "The Ferret"
• Heinz Weiss as Kramer, "The Ferret"
• Tom Adams as Flight Lieutenant 'Dai' Nimmo RAF, "Diversions"
• Karl-Otto Alberty as SS-Obersturmführer Steinach