In which 1963 film does Richard Attenborough play Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett, known as Big X?
Roger Bushell in the "London Gazette" dated 13 June 1946. Bushell Green in Bushey is named in his honour, one of a number of streets in the area named after Battle of Britain pilots. Bushell's name also appears on the war memorial in Hermanus, South Africa, where his parents spent their last years and where they were buried. Bushell was the basis for the character "Roger Bartlett" in the film "The Great Escape", played by Richard Attenborough. Ian McShane played Bushell in "". Roger Bushell Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell RAF (30 August 1910 – 29 March 1944) was a South African-born
The Great Escape (film) by John Sturges. The film had its Royal World Premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square in London's West End on 20 June 1963. In 1943, after having recaptured escaped Allied POWs, the Germans move those still-determined-to-escape-again POWs (under their senior British officer, Group Captain Ramsey) to a new, high-security prisoner of war camp under the supervision of Luftwaffe Colonel von Luger. Meanwhile, Gestapo agents Kuhn and Preissen and SS Lieutenant Dietrich bring RAF Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett to the camp. Known as "Big X", Bartlett is introduced as the principal escape organiser. As Kuhn leaves, he warns Bartlett that if