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The Great Escape
The Great Escape is a 1963 film about an escape by Allied prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II. It is based on the book The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill, which is a novelization of the true story of a mass escape from Stalag Luft III. The film was made by the Mirisch...
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Steve McQueen
Terrence Steven "Steve" McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American movie actor nicknamed "The King of Cool." His "anti-hero" persona, which he developed at the height of the Vietnam counterculture, made him one of the top box-office...
James Garner
James Garner (born April 7, 1928) is an American film and television actor.
He has starred in several television series spanning a career of more than five decades. These included his roles as Bret Maverick, in the popular 1950s western-comedy...
Richard Attenborough
Lord Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE (born 29 August 1923) is an English actor, director, producer, and entrepreneur. Attenborough has won two Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes. He is the elder brother of...
James Donald
James Donald (18 May 1917 - 3 August 1993) was a Scottish actor. Tall and gaunt, he specialized in playing authority figures; military officers, doctors or scientists.
Donald was born in Aberdeen, and made his first professional stage appearance...
Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor best known for his "tough guy" image, who starred in such classic films as Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, The Evil...
Donald Pleasence
Donald Henry Pleasence OBE, (5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor, having accumulated over 200 screen credits throughout his long career. Although he often found himself typecast as villainous and/or psychopathic characters,...
James Coburn
James Harrison Coburn, Jr. (August 31, 1928 – November 18, 2002) was an American film and television actor who appeared in nearly 70 films and made over 100 television appearances in his 45-year career. Perhaps best remembered for his natural...
John Leyton
John Leyton (born John Dudley Leyton, 17 February 1939, Frinton-on-Sea, Essex) is a English actor and singer. As a singer he is best known for his hit song, "Johnny Remember Me" (written by Geoff Goddard and produced by Joe Meek), which reached...
David McCallum
David Keith McCallum, Jr. (born 19 September 1933) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for his roles as Illya Kuryakin, a Russian-born secret agent, in the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard in the...
Gordon Jackson
Gordon Cameron Jackson, OBE (19 December 1923 – 15 January 1990) was a Scottish Emmy Award-winning actor best remembered for his roles as the butler Angus Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs and George Cowley, the head of CI5, in The Professionals....
Angus Lennie
Angus Lennie (born 18 April 1930 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish actor best known for his film appearances and the television soap opera Crossroads.
He was brought up in Glasgow and attended Eastbank Academy in the city. He attended the 94th...
Nigel Stock
Nigel Stock (born Nigel Hector Munro Stock on 21 September 1919 in Malta - 23 June 1986) was a British actor of stage, screen, radio and television, who played major character roles in many films and television dramas.
Stock was born in Malta, the...
Hannes Messemer
Hannes Messemer (May 19, 1924 – November 2, 1991) was a German actor best known for his role as the commandant in The Great Escape (1963). The movie had a star-studded cast, but it was the relatively unknown Messemer who uttered the film's most...
