Sean Connery

(Captain Marko Ramius)

Alec Baldwin

(Jack Ryan)

Scott Glenn

(Captain Bart Mancuso)

Sam Neill

(Captain Vasily Borodin)

James Earl Jones

(Admiral James Greer)

Joss Ackland

(Ambassador Andrei Lysenko)

Richard Jordan

(National Security Advisor Jeffrey Pelt)

Peter Firth

(Political Officer Ivan Putin - Red October)

Tim Curry

(Dr. Petrov)

Courtney B. Vance

(Petty Officer 2nd Class Jones)

Stellan Skarsgard

(Captain Tupolev)

Jeffrey Jones

(Oliver Wendell 'Skip' Tyler)

Fred Dalton Thompson

(Rear Admiral Joshua Painter - USS Enterprise)

Daniel Davis

(Captain Charlie Davenport - USS Enterprise)

Tomas Arana

(Igor Loginov, Cook - Red October)