Steve McQueen

as Hilts 'The Cooler King'

James Garner

as Hendley 'The Scrounger'

Richard Attenborough

as Bartlett 'Big X'

James Donald

as Ramsey 'The SBO'

Charles Bronson

as Danny 'Tunnel King'

Donald Pleasence

as Blythe 'The Forger'

James Coburn

as Sedgwick 'Manufacturer'

Hannes Messemer

as Von Luger 'The Kommandant'

David McCallum

as Ashley-Pitt 'Dispersal'

Gordon Jackson

as MacDonald 'Intelligence'

John Leyton

as Willie 'Tunnel King'

Angus Lennie

as Ives 'The Mole'

Nigel Stock

as Cavendish 'The Surveyor'

Robert Graf

as Werner 'The Ferret'

Jud Taylor

as Goff

Hans Reiser

as Herr Kuhn

Harry Riebauer

as Stratwitch

William Russell

as Sorren

Robert Freitag

as Capt. Posen

Ulrich Beiger

as Preissen

George Mikell

as Lt. Dietrich

Lawrence Montaigne

as Haynes ('Diversions')

Robert Desmond

as Griffith 'Tailor'

Til Kiwe

as Frick

Heinz Weiss

as Kramer

Tom Adams

as Dai Nimmo ('Diversions')

Karl-Otto Alberty

as S.S. Officer Steinach