Donald Pleasence

[pokerfan]

Born the same year and died the same year as my father.

Just staying up way too late and watching Halloween on AMC.

500 screen credits to that strange looking little man.

Including "The Great Escape," the true story about Allied POW's escaping from an inescapable Luftwaffe camp.

Funny story about that...

Donald Pleasence had actually been a World War II prisoner of war. When he kindly offered advice to the film's director John Sturges, he was politely asked to keep his "opinions" to himself. Later, when another star from the film informed John Sturges that Pleasence had actually been a RAF Officer in a World War II German POW Stalag camp, Sturges requested his technical advice and input on historical accuracy from that point forward.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057115/trivia

[michreject]

1. Thanks

for the link and read. I always liked him for reasons unknown.