Colin Firth as Robert Lawrence

Paul Rhys as Hugh MacKessac

David Calder as John Lawrence

Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Jean Lawrence

Rupert Baker as Nick Lawrence

Jack Fortune as Christopher Lawrence

Sophie Thompson as Louise Stubbs

Roddy Maude-Roxby as George Stubbs

Ann Bell as Helen Stubbs

Dan Hildebrand as Prothero

Mark Williams as Lumpy

Paul Higgins as Saltemarsh

Timothy Carlton as Lt. Colonel Bill Kirke

Pete Postlethwaite as Major (Rehabilitation Centre)

Angela Morant as Major Newman

Tam Dean Burn as Sergeant Brodick

Ian Michie as Fraser

Stewart Porter as O'Rourke

Mark Wing-Davey as Adjutant Stewart Inglis

Robin Daglish as Major Peter Walsh

Andrew McCulloch as Padre Major Alistair Tolly

Edward Rawle-Hicks as Lt. Peter Fyshe

Charles Millham as The Noble Lord

Ben Cole as Harry Hebers

Clive Russell as Terry Knapp

James Griffiths as Surgeon

David Conville as Brigade Officer

Edwin Richfield as Group Captain

Brian Hall as Squadron Leader Wentworth

Charles Lamb as Elderly Man

Richard Owens as RAF Officer

Arbel Jones as Welsh Lady

Sean Scanlan as Welsh Man

Tony Caunter as Air Commodore

Iain McColl as Colour Sergeant

Edward Lyon as Lt. Colonel RAMC

Victoria Hasted as Nurse Wendy

Murray Ewan as CSM Brown

Wendy Nottingham as Mrs Prothero

Andrew Livingston as Young Doctor

Maggie McCarthy as Nurse Mary

Sharon D. Clarke as 1st Night Nurse

Leila Bertrand as 2nd Night Nurse

Liza Tarbuck as Angie

Felicity Montagu as Trisha

Roy Spencer as Hospital Chaplain

Winston Crooke as Benny

Steven Law as Cabby

Alan White as Yeoman Warder

George Irving as Tug

Marian McLoughlin as Mandy

Serena Gordon as Phyllida

Francisco Morales as Argentinian Soldier

Martin Garfield as Argentinian Soldier