How old was Donald Pleasence in the movie The Great Escape?
Donald Pleasence was 42 in The Great Escape when he played the character 'Blythe 'The Forger''.
That was over 61 years ago in 1963.
In 1995 he died aged 75, starring in 178 films in his career, 145 of those after The Great Escape was first released. If he were alive today he would be 104.
How old do you think he looks in the movie?
In The Great Escape, I think Donald Pleasence looks:
Did you know?
- Director John Sturges has worked with Donald Pleasence a total of 3 times in his career.
- Donald Pleasence's first movie was as 'Tromp' in The Beachcomber, released in 1954 when he was 33
- The Great Escape scores 7.95 out of 10 on TMDB.
