Caption: Steve McQueen, Tom Adams, Karl-Otto Alberty, Ulrich Beiger, Robert Desmond, William Russell, Robert Freitag, Robert Graf, Gordon Jackson, Til Kiwe, Angus Lennie, John Leyton, David McCallum, Hannes Messemer, George Mikell, Lawrence Montaigne, Hans Reiser, Harry Riebauer, Nigel Stock, Jud Taylor and Heinz Weiss in The Great Escape (1963)
Actor
Born: November 19, 1924
Star sign: Scorpio
Height: 6' 0½" (1.84 m)
Known for: Doctor Who (1963), Harriet's Back in Town (1972), The Great Escape (1963), Superman (1978)
Source: IMDB
William Russell was born William Russell Enoch on 19 November 1924, in Sunderland, County Durham, England, to Eva Compston (Pile) and Alfred James Enoch. He became interested in acting at an early age. He was involved in organizing entertainments during his national service in the Royal Air Force and then, after university, went into repertory ...