Question: The Great Escape is a 1963 American World War II epic film based on an escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II, starring which American actor, called "The King of Cool"?

Context articles: Angler POW escape
Camp Aliceville
The Great Escape (film)
Camp Douglas (Wyoming)
Argyle Street Camp
Windfall Indiana World War II POW Camp
The Great Escape (book)
Per Bergsland
Steve McQueen
Camp Albuquerque

In April 1941, inmates at the Angler POW Camp near Neys Provincial Park on the north shore of Lake Superior planned the largest escape from a Canadian POW camp during World War II.
 The escape was the largest of its kind in Ontario, Canada.
Camp Aliceville was a World War II era prisoner of war (POW) camp in Aliceville, Alabama.
 Its construction began in August 1942, it received its first prisoners in June 1943, and it shut down in September 1945.
 It was the largest World War II POW camp in the Southeastern United States, holding between 3,000 and 6,000 German prisoners at any one time.
The Great Escape is a 1963 American World War II epic film based on an escape by British Commonwealth prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II, starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough, filmed in Panavision.
Camp Douglas was an internment camp for Prisoners of War (POW) during World War II, located in the city of Douglas, Wyoming, United States.
 Between January 1943 and February 1946 in the camp housing first Italian and then German prisoners of war in the United States.
 While there are few remaining structures, the walls of the Officer's Club were painted with murals by three Italian prisoners.
 These paintings depicting western life and folklore are now registered with the United States Department of the Interior National Park Service on the National Register of Historic Places.
 The story of this POW camp is an important part of the history of the town of Douglas.
Argyle Street Camp was a Japanese World War II Prisoner-of-war camp in Kowloon, Hong Kong, which primarily held officer prisoners.
 Built by the Hong Kong government as a refugee camp before the war as North Point POW Camp, it began life as a POW camp soon after Kowloon and the New Territories were abandoned to the Japanese.
Windfall Indiana World War II POW Camp was a World War II German Prisoner-of-war camp from 1944 to 1945 in Windfall, Indiana, United States.
 The camp was located near the site of the Windfall High School.
 The location, on the northeast side of town, is now home to a mobile home community.
 At its peak the camp housed 1,500 German Prisoners and their Prison officers.The prisoners were put to work laboring on local farms.
The Great Escape is an insider's account by Australian writer Paul Brickhill of the 1944 mass escape from the German prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III for British and Commonwealth airmen.
 As a prisoner in the camp, he participated in the escape plan but was debarred from the actual escape 'along with three or four others on grounds of claustrophobia'.
 The introduction to the book is written by George Harsh, an American POW at Stalag Luft III.
 This book was made into the 1963 film "The Great Escape".
Sgt Per Bergsland (17 January 1918 – 9 June 1992) was a Norwegian POW in the German POW camp Stalag Luft III and one of only three men to escape to freedom in the "Great Escape".
Terence Steven "Steve" McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was an American actor.
 Called "The King of Cool", his "anti-hero" persona developed at the height of the counterculture of the 1960s and made him a top box-office draw of the 1960s and 1970s.
 McQueen received an Academy Award nomination for his role in "The Sand Pebbles".
 His other popular films include "The Cincinnati Kid", "The Thomas Crown Affair", "Bullitt", "The Getaway", and "Papillon", as well as the all-star ensemble films "The Magnificent Seven", "The Great Escape", and "The Towering Inferno".
 In 1974, he became the highest-paid movie star in the world, although he did not act in films again for four years.
 McQueen was combative with directors and producers, but his popularity placed him in high demand and enabled him to command large salaries.
Camp Albuquerque was an American World War II POW camp in Albuquerque, New Mexico that housed Italian and German prisoners of war.
 From this branch camp, the POWs did mostly farm labor, from 1943 to 1946.
 Most of these POWs were transferred from Camp Roswell, which was a base or main POW camp for New Mexico.
 Camp Lordsburg, New Mexico, and Camp El Paso, Texas, were also base camps.