The Great Escape - Cast

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Steve McQueen

as Capt. Hilts 'The Cooler King'


Richard Attenborough

as Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett 'Big X'


James Garner

as Flight Lt. Hendley 'The Scrounger'


James Coburn

as Flying Officer Louis Sedgwick 'The Manufacturer'


Charles Bronson

as Flight Lt. Danny Velinski 'The Tunnel King'


James Donald

as Group Capt. Ramsey 'The SBO'


Gordon Jackson

as Flight Lt. Sandy MacDonald 'Intelligence'


John Leyton

as Flight Lt. William Dickes 'The Tunneler'


Angus Lennie

as Flying Officer Archibald Ives 'The Mole'


Nigel Stock

as Flight Lt. Denys Cavendish 'The Surveyor'


Jud Taylor

as Goff


William Russell

as Sorren


Robert Desmond

as Griffith 'Tailor'


Tom Adams

as Dai Nimmo ('Diversions')


Lawrence Montaigne

as Haynes ('Diversions')


Hannes Messemer

as Kommandant von Luger


Robert Freitag

as Capt. Posen


Karl Otto Alberty

as S.S. Officer Steinach


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