The Great Escape (film) The Great Escape (film) The Great Escape is a 1963 American World War II epic film that depicts an escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from a German POW camp. The film stars Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough and features James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Coburn, and Hannes Messemer. It was filmed in Panavision. The film is based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 book of the same name, a non-fiction first-hand account of the mass escape from Stalag Luft III in Sagan (now Żagań, Poland), in the province of Lower Silesia, Nazi Germany. A heavily fictionalised
Paul Stevens (actor) for the Planet of the Apes". Stevens was a guest star on many television series from 1954 until 1977, including "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.", "The Wild Wild West" ("The Night of the Samurai"), "The Rockford Files", "The Streets of San Francisco", "Baretta", "Ironside", "Police Story", "Gunsmoke", "Mannix", "", "Hawaii Five-0", "McMillan and Wife" and "Playhouse 90". Paul Stevens (actor) Paul Stevens (January 17, 1921 – June 4, 1986) was an American film and television actor. Stevens played Colonel Charles R. Codman in the 1970 film "Patton". He also appeared in "Exodus", as a key congressional witness in "Advise and Consent"