James Earl Jones plays James Greer, the Deputy Director of the CIA who personally recruited Ryan, with an iron first in The Hunt for Red October, earning him the chance to reprise the role opposite Harrison Ford in both Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger.
Based on the first novel featuring Jack Ryan is director John McTiernan’s 1990 suspense classic in which Tom Clancy’s iconic CIA analyst (Alec Baldwin) finds himself literally in deep trying to prove that the Soviet Union’s top submarine captain (Sean Connery) is planning a defect at the height of the Cold War.