110: Donald Pleasence: The Great Escape Actor Who Was A Real POW.

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Donald Pleasence, who starred in "The Great Escape" was actually a WW2 Prisoner of War (POW).

He later found fame as Bond villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and as Dr. Loomis in the cult horror film "Halloween".

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Donald Pleasence served in the RAF from 1940, particpating in 60 bombing missions.

Eventually his Lancaster bomber was shot down whilst on a raid to bomb a V1 rocket site in northern France.

Captured, Donald Pleasence was to spend the rest of the war as a German Prisoner in a POW camp, Stalag Luft I / Stalag Luft 1.

Situated on the Baltic…

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