Bill Ash escaping activities. He ended the war as a flight lieutenant. In August 2015, the BBC reported: "When Ash died aged 96 last year his obituaries noted that he was said to have been the model for Virgil Hilts, the lean, leather-jacketed airman played by Steve McQueen in the 1963 film "The Great Escape"". The character Hilts, nicknamed "The Cooler King" because of the time he spends in the prison camp's punishment block (which the prisoners call the "cooler") for his persistent escape attempts, steals a motorbike and tries to escape to Switzerland but is caught while using it to jump
Grandpa's Great Escape Kit Connor as Jack, Jennifer Saunders as Miss Dandy with Samantha Spiro and Walliams as Jack's parents, Patricia and Barry. The film aired on New Year's Day 2018 to an overnights audience of around 5 million viewers. Grandpa's Great Escape Grandpa's Great Escape is a children's book written by David Walliams and illustrated by Tony Ross. It was released by HarperCollins on 24 September 2015. The story follows a boy called Jack trying to rescue his Grandpa who suffers from Alzheimer's disease from a care home, Twilight Towers run by an evil matron, Miss Swine. The book was adapted for