John McTiernan	...	(Director)
Tom Clancy, Larry Ferguson, Donald E. Stewart, David Shaber	...	(Writer)
Sean Connery	...	Marko Ramius
Alec Baldwin	...	Jack Ryan
Scott Glenn	...	Bart Mancuso
Sam Neill	...	Captain Borodin
James Earl Jones	...	Admiral Greer
Joss Ackland	...	Andrei Lysenko
Richard Jordan	...	Jeffrey Pelt
Peter Firth	...	Ivan Putin
Tim Curry	...	Dr. Petrov
Courtney B. Vance	...	Seaman Jones
Stellan Skarsgård	...	Captain Tupolev
Jeffrey Jones	...	Skip Tyler
Timothy Carhart	...	Bill Steiner
Larry Ferguson	...	Chief of the Boat
Fred Thompson	...	Admiral Painter
Daniel Davis	...	Captain Davenport
Ned Vaughn	...	Seaman Beaumont - USS Dallas
Anthony Peck	...	Lt. Comm. Thompson - USS Dallas
Mark Draxton	...	Seaman - USS Dallas
Tom Fisher	...	Seaman - USS Dallas
Pete Antico	...	Seaman - USS Dallas
Ronald Guttman	...	Lt. Melekhin - Red October
Tomas Arana	...	Loginov (Cook) - Red October
Michael George Benko	...	Ivan - Red October
Anatoli Davydov	...	Officer #1 - Red October
Ivan G'Vera	...	Officer #2 - Red October
Artur Cybulski	...	Diving Officer - Red October
Sven-Ole Thorsen	...	Russian COB - Red October
Michael Welden	...	Kamarov - Red October
Boris Lee Krutonog	...	Slavin - Red October
Kenton Kovell	...	Seaman - Red October
Radu Gavor	...	Seaman - Red October
Ivan Ivanov	...	Seaman - Red October
Ping Wu	...	Seaman - Red October
Herman Sinitzyn	...	Seaman - Red October
Krzysztof Janczar	...	Andrei Bonovia - Konovalov
Vlado Benden	...	Seaman - Konovalov
George Saunders	...	Seaman - Konovalov
Don Oscar Smith	...	Helicopter Pilot
Rick Ducommun	...	Navigator C-2A
George H. Billy	...	DSRV Officer
Reed Popovich	...	Lt. Jim Curry
Andrew Divoff	...	Andrei Amalric
Peter Zinner	...	Admiral Padorin
Tony Veneto	...	Padorin's Orderly
Ben Hartigan	...	Admiral (Briefing)
Ray Reinhardt	...	Judge Moore (Briefing)
F.J. O'Neil	...	General (Briefing)
Robert Buckingham	...	Admiral #2 (Briefing)
A.C. Lyles	...	Advisor #1
John McTiernan Sr.	...	Advisor #2
David Sederholm	...	Sunglasses
John Shepherd	...	Foxtrot Pilot
William Bell Sullivan	...	Lt. Cmd. Mike Hewitt
Gates McFadden	...	Caroline Ryan
Louise Borras	...	Sally Ryan
Denise E. James	...	Stewardess
Stanley	...	Stanley
Shane Black	...	USS Reuben James Crewman
John C. Grant	...	Russian Sailor
Randy James	...	Russian Seaman
Peter Jason	...	USS Reuben James Commander
James Michael Kaura	...	Flight Deck Crew (Background)
Mark Rodney	...	Assistant Joint Chief of Staff
Paul Yalnezian	...	Russian Sailor
Jan de Bont	...	Cinematographer

Tags: submarine, defection, soviet submarine, cold war era, cold war

Summary: In November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain violates orders and heads for the U.S. in a new undetectable sub. The American CIA and military must quickly determine: Is he trying to defect or to start a war?