 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (qv) and Prime Minister  Winston Churchill (I) (qv) are played in this film by  Ralph Bellamy (qv) and Robert Hardy (I) (qv), respectively. Both  actors had played those roles in other films as well. Bellamy not  only played the role in The Winds of War (1983)(TV) (qv), but also  in _Sunrise at Campobello (1960)_ (qv). Hardy previously played  Churchill in  _"Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years" (1981) (mini)_ (qv) and  _Woman He Loved, The (1988) (TV)_ (qv). He would also subsequently  play the part in _Bomber Harris (1989) (TV)_ (qv).