Several actors have played Jack Ryan over the years in Tom Clancy adaptations of varying quality. Here's how IMDb's users rate the different Ryan projects.

He was the author of more than two dozen military and spy novels, inlcuding “The Hunt for Red October ... an honor to know Tom Clancy and to work on his fantastic books.

Here’s What You Need to Remember: “Though set in 1984, its attitudes reflect 1990, the year of its release. This is the era of Gorbachev, glasnost, perestroika. The Russians depicted here..

Providing inspiration for Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October, the 1975 mutiny aboard the Soviet destroyer Storozhevoy (translated Sentry) aimed at nothing less than the overthrow of Leonid Brezhnev ...

Although he is best known for creating the Jack Ryan character and series, Tom Clancy wrote several other ... Clark in the Jack Ryan film The Hunt For Red October, Michael B.