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

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