The Great Escape GESPRENGTE KETTEN The Great Escape USA 1963 John Sturges Hilts/The Cooler King (STEVE MCQUEEN), Goff (JUD TAYLOR), Lt. Hendley/The Scrounger (JAMES The film was directed by Jud Taylor (in the 1963 original Taylor had played 2nd Lt. Goff). United Artists 100th Anniversary Poll Part II, Your Love Is Like a Demolition Derby in My Heart, Love and Mother/Love and the Dummies/Love and the Athlete/Love and the Shower, Love and the Modern Wife/Love and the Phonies/Love and the Single Couple, Love and a Couple of Couples/Love and the Hustler/Love and the Pill, Pull the Wool Over Your Eyes, Here Comes the Cold Wind of Truth. A tunnel is dug, but turns out to be too short, so a mad rush is necessary to escape. 50 refugees were discovered and executed. Doctors Jo Wilson, April Kepner, and Andrew DeLuca share the episodes they think are essential to understanding their characters. He was born in New York City on 25 February 1932. The Great Escape II: The Untold Story. Jud Taylor was born on February 25, 1932 in New York City, New York, USA as Gerald Olken. Two found their way to freedom (they reached Sweden). Greatest U.S. Military Themed Popular Movie? Director Dr. The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Taylor also directed more than 40 made-for-TV movies, including the award-winning Tail Gunner Joe and Foxfire, and the final film appearances of both Susan Hayward (in Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole (1972)) and David Janssen (in City in Fear (1980)). : The Virtue Affair", Air Date December 3, 1965, The Top Law & Order/Homicide/Chicago TV Show Crew, The Best Actresses and Actors - Born in the 1930s. British and American prisoners-of-war engineer a mass breakout from Stalag Luft III, into which the Germans have grouped together their most problematic prisoners. Jud Taylor, Actor: The Great Escape. In the early 2000s, he directed several episodes of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. The Great Escape film Great Escape He also played the part of Goff, one of three Americans, in the feature film The Great Escape. Other TV programs in which he had small roles included Gunsmoke, Men of Annapolis, and Wagon Train. As the camp Kommandant Von Luger (Hannes Messemer) says, This is a new camp. Based on a true incident which did not include Americans, who had been transferred out. The Great Escape II premiered in two parts on NBCon Novemb It stars Christopher Reeve, Judd Hirsch, Anthony Denison, Ian McShane, Charles Haid and Donald Pleasence in a supporting role (in the 1963 original Pleasence had played Flight-Lieutenant Colin Blythe, "The Forger"). [3] He appeared in several episodes of The Fugitive and Twelve O'Clock High playing different characters. Based on the real-life Allied escape from Nazi POW camp Stalag Luft III in 1944, The Great Escape opens with the arrival of truck loads of Allied soldiers to the inescapable camp. 1940-2008. Character Ulrich Beiger. In the early 2000s, he directed several episodes of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. DISC ONE *The Film Audio commentary by actors James Garner, James Coburn, Donald Pleasence, Jud Taylor and David McCallum, production executive Robert Relyea, production designer Fernando Carrere, talent manager Hilly Ogdens, stuntman Bud Ekins, director John Sturges and moderator Steven J. Actor Jud Taylor -- probably best remembered for his role as Steve McQueen's American prisoner-of-war friend in The Great Escape -- turned to directing in 1968 with Paramount's Fade-In, but had his name removed from the film, replaced by the Directors Guild authorized psuedonym of Alan Smithee. 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