Til Kiwe(1910-1995)
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Til Kiwe did in real life what several actors played in The Great
Escape. Kiwe was a German paratrooper officer, captured in North Africa
in 1943, who made several escape attempts from an American POW camp in
Colorado. Once, having dyed his uniform with brown vegetable juice, he
made it as far as St Louis by train before being recaptured. After the
war he became a German actor in movies and TV. He was also an
anthropologist who made several expeditions to Polynesia and
SouthAmerica.
