| Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and Emma Thompson as his wife Harriet. Other cast members included Ronald Pickup, Robert Stephens, Alan Bennett, Philip Madoc and Rupert Graves. The series stays relatively faithful to the original novels, with no notable departures from their plot. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Emma Thompson | Harriet Pringle | 7 |
| Kenneth Branagh | Guy Pringle | 7 |
| Caroline Langrishe | Bella Niculescu | 7 |
| Robert Stephens | Bill Castlebar | 7 |
| Rupert Graves | Simon Boulderstone | 7 |
| Ronald Fraser | 7 | |
| Ronald Pickup | Prince Yakimov | 7 |
| Alan Bennett | Lord Pinkrose | 7 |
| Charles Kay | Dobson | 7 |
| Ciaran Madden | Angela Hooper | 7 |
| Esmond Knight | Liversage | 7 |
| James Villiers | Inchcape | 7 |
| Christopher Strauli | Toby Lush | 7 |
| Vernon Dobtcheff | 7 | |
| Greg Hicks | Aidan Pratt | 7 |
| Richard Clifford | Lawson | 7 |
| Barry Jackson | McCann | 1 |
| Michael Cochrane | Clifford | 1 |