How old was James Garner in the movie The Great Escape?
James Garner was 34 in The Great Escape when he played the character 'Hendley 'The Scrounger''.
That was over 61 years ago in 1963.
In 2014 he died aged 86, starring in 90 films in his career, 78 of those after The Great Escape was first released. If he were alive today he would be 96.
How old do you think he looks in the movie?
In The Great Escape, I think James Garner looks:
Did you know?
- Director John Sturges has worked with James Garner a total of 2 times in his career.
- James Garner's first movie was as 'Lt. Col. Joe Craven' in Toward the Unknown, released in 1956 when he was 27
- The Great Escape scores 7.95 out of 10 on TMDB.
