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The Great Escape
The Great Escape is a 1963 American 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...
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James Clavell
James Clavell, born Charles Edmund Dumaresq Clavell (10 October 1924 – 7 September 1994) was a British (later naturalized American) novelist, screenwriter, director and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. Clavell is best known for his epic...
Date of birth:
- Oct 10, 1924
Date of death:
- Sep 7, 1994 (age 69 years)
William R. Burnett
William Riley Burnett (November 25, 1899 - April 25, 1982), often credited as W. R. Burnett, was an American novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for the crime novel, Little Caesar, whose film adaptation is considered the first of the classic...
Date of birth:
- Nov 25, 1899
Date of death:
- Apr 25, 1982 (age 82 years)
Paul Brickhill
Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill (20 December 1916 – 23 April 1991) was an Australian writer, whose World War II books were turned into popular movies.
He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and educated at North Sydney Boys High School. Afterwards,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 20, 1916
Date of death:
- Apr 23, 1991 (age 74 years)
