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
William Bryant (actor) William Bryant (actor) William Bryant (born William Robert Klein January 31, 1924 – June 26, 2001), was an American actor. He is one of the more recognizable television character actors of the 1960s and 1970s. Born in Detroit, Bryant was a character actor who appeared in films such as "King Dinosaur" (1955), "Escape from San Quentin" (1957), "Experiment in Terror" (1962), with Glenn Ford, "How to Murder Your Wife" and "The Great Race" with Jack Lemmon, "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?" (1966), McQ" (1974), "Walking Tall Part II" (1975). He also played several roles in the classic