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
Adam Campbell (actor) Adam Campbell (actor) Adam Campbell (born Adam Jones; 19 August 1980) is an English actor. He has appeared in films such as "Date Movie" and "Epic Movie", and portrayed Cal Vandeusen in the horror miniseries "Harper's Island". He also appeared in the sitcom "Great News" as Greg Walsh. Campbell was first cast in "Commando Nanny", an unaired sitcom for The WB Television Network, which was originally scheduled to premiere in 2004. He subsequently starred as Grant Fockyerdoder with Alyson Hannigan in the 2006 parody of romantic comedy films, "Date Movie", which was a mild success at the American box office.