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The Great Escape

The Great Escape
 172 minutes (2 hrs 52 mins)

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 date 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

Certificates


PG age rating

Total grosses

UK total gross
United Kingdom Flag  £172.6 Thousand
US total gross
United States Flag  $0
Global total gross
Global Flag  $0

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Last viewed:
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Director
Role
John Sturges
Directed By
Actor
Character
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Richard Attenborough
Bartlett 'Big X'
James Donald
Ramsey 'The SBO'
Danny 'Tunnel King'
Donald Pleasence
Blythe 'The Forger'
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Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'
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Von Luger 'The Kommandant'
David McCallum
Ashley-Pitt 'Dispersal'
Gordon Jackson
MacDonald 'Intelligence'
John Leyton
Willie 'Tunnel King'
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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