Robert Freitag was born on 7 April 1916 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor and director, known for The Great Escape (1963), Decision Before Dawn (1951) and Ein Monat auf dem Lande (1960). He was married to Maria Sebaldt and Maria Becker. He died on 8 July 2010 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

Robert Freitag in Eine Frau von heute (1954)

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Robert Freitag and Hannes Messemer in The Great Escape (1963)

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)

Richard Attenborough, Steve McQueen, and James Garner in The Great Escape (1963)

Dominique Blanchar, Hildegard Knef, and Oskar Werner in Decision Before Dawn (1951)

Robert Freitag(1916-2010)

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