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MOVIE

The Great Escape

1963

172 minutes (2 hrs 52 mins)

CAST & DIRECTOR BOX OFFICE DATA GLOBAL RELEASES TOP GROSSING NEWS

Director and Cast Quickview

Directed by

John Sturges

Starring

Steve McQueen · James Garner · Richard Attenborough · James Donald · Charles Bronson · Donald Pleasence

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release: 4th July 1963

Box Office Quickview

UK box office

Debut box office: 22nd Mar '19
Debut position: 12
Highest position: 12
Debut gross: £172.6 Thousand
Total chart weeks: 1

Chart position history

UK box office

22 Mar, 2019
12

US box office

Global box office

Total grosses

UK total gross
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£172.6 Thousand

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Last viewed:
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Director

Role

John Sturges

Directed By

Steve
McQueen

Richard
Attenborough

Actor

Character

Steve McQueen

Hilts 'The Cooler King'

James Garner

Hendley 'The Scrounger'

Richard Attenborough

Bartlett 'Big X'

James Donald

Ramsey 'The SBO'

Charles Bronson

Danny 'Tunnel King'

Donald Pleasence

Blythe 'The Forger'

James Coburn

Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'

Hannes Messemer

Von Luger 'The Kommandant'

David McCallum

Ashley-Pitt 'Dispersal'

Gordon Jackson

MacDonald 'Intelligence'

John Leyton

Willie 'Tunnel King'

Angus Lennie

Ives 'The Mole'

Nigel Stock

Cavendish 'The Surveyor'

Robert Graf

Werner 'The Ferret'

Jud Taylor

Goff

Hans Reiser

Herr Kuhn

Harry Riebauer

Strachwitz

William Russell

Sorren

Robert Freitag

Capt. Posen

Ulrich Beiger

Preissen

George Mikell

Lt. Dietrich

Lawrence Montaigne

Haynes ('Diversions')

Robert Desmond

Griffith 'Tailor'

Til Kiwe

Frick

Heinz Weiss

Kramer

Tom Adams

Dai Nimmo ('Diversions')

Karl-Otto Alberty

S.S. Officer Steinach

Arthur Atkinson

British Officer Charlie