How old was Richard Attenborough in the movie The Great Escape?

Richard Attenborough was 38 in The Great Escape when he played the character 'Roger Bartlett'.

That was over 61 years ago in 1963.

In 2014 he died aged 91, starring in 94 films in his career, 57 of those after The Great Escape was first released. If he were alive today he would be 100.

How old do you think he looks in the movie?

In The Great Escape, I think Richard Attenborough looks:

Did you know?

  • Director John Sturges has worked with Richard Attenborough just once in his career.
  • Richard Attenborough's first movie was as 'Young Stoker' in In Which We Serve, released in 1942 when he was 18
  • The Great Escape scores 7.95 out of 10 on TMDB.

The cast of The Great Escape

Richard Attenborough's other movies