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  1. The Great Escape (1963) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

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  3. John Leyton as Flight Lieutenant Willie Dickes ('Tunnel King'): Welinski's best friend and co-lead on tunnel design and construction. Angus Lennie as Flying Officer Archie Ives ('The Mole'): anxious Scottish airman who befriends Hilts in the cooler.

  4. John Leyton: Willie 'Tunnel King' Showing all 17 items. Jump to: Photos (12) Quotes (5) Photos. Quotes. Bartlett : Gentlemen, no doubt you've heard the immortal words of our new commandant: devote your energies to things other than escape, and sit out the war as comfortably as possible. Sedgwick : [derisively] Ha!

  5. Feb 24, 2024 · John Leyton (Willie Tunnel King Dickes) United Artists. Some of the tensest moments of "The Great Escape" deal with the tunneling exploits of RAF Flight Lieutenants Danny Welinski and Willie...

  6. In The Great Escape (1963), he played tunnel designer Willie Dickes, one of the only three characters to reach freedom. Leyton also cut a single with lyrics to Elmer Bernstein 's theme to the film. He also appeared in Guns at Batasi in 1964, Every Day's a Holiday (aka Seaside Swingers in the United States) and Von Ryan's Express starring Frank ...

  7. The Great Escape - Full Cast & Crew. Based on a true story, this film follows allied soldiers in a 1942 Nazi POW camp who plan to break out of an escape-proof prison.

  8. The Great Escape (1963) In this WWII prison-camp escape action-film and box-office champ from John Sturges - it was a critically-acclaimed, epic film about the building of a tunnel in 1943 for a 'great escape' (based on a true story) from the Stalag Luft North German POW camp.

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