Fan Casting The Great Escape (1983)
Story added by rwhite18 on July 10, 2025
Story Plot
This epic adventure centers on an audacious plan by Allied officers to stage a massive breakout from an ostensibly escape-proof German prison camp.
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Fan Casting Roles for The Great Escape (1983)
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Captain Virgil Hilts ('The Cooler King') (one of three Americans in the camp, a particularly persistent escapee)
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Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe ('The Forger') (mild-mannered English forger; forms close friendship with Hendley)
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Flight Lieutenant Andy MacDonald ('Intelligence') (Bartlett's second-in-command)
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Flight Lieutenant Bob Hendley ('The Scrounger') (American RAF officer, Eagle Squadron, responsible for finding materials)
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Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett ('Big X') (RAF officer and ringleader of the escape committee.)
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Flying Officer Sedgwick ('The Manufacturer') (an Australian officer who constructs tools for the escape)
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Group Captain Ramsey ('The SBO') (most senior British & Allied officer in the camp)
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Flight Lieutenant Danny Welinski ('Tunnel King') (Polish RAF officer)
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Oberst von Luger ('The Kommandant') (Commandant of the camp and a senior Luftwaffe officer.)
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Flying Officer Archie Ives ('The Mole') (anxious Scottish airman who befriends Hilts in the cooler)
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Lieutenant-Commander Eric Ashley-Pitt ('Dispersal') (a Fleet Air Arm officer; devises a way to get rid of the tunnel dirt)
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Flight Lieutenant Dennis Cavendish ('The Surveyor') (Surveys The Tunnel Routes)
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Flight Lieutenant Willie Dickes ('Tunnel King') (Welinski's best friend and co-lead on tunnel design and construction.)
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Frick
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Kramer
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Kuhn (Gestapo officer and ardent Nazi.)
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