Cast
- Sean Connery as Captain 1st Rank Marko Aleksandrovich Ramius, Commanding Officer of the Red October and the film's main protagonist
- Alec Baldwin as Dr. Jack Ryan, CIA intelligence analyst, author, Professor of Naval History at the United States Naval Academy and secondary protagonist
- Scott Glenn as Commander Bart Mancuso, Commanding Officer of the USS Dallas
- Sam Neill as Captain 2nd Rank Vasily Borodin, Executive Officer of the Red October
- James Earl Jones as Vice Admiral James Greer, CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence (DDI)
- Joss Ackland as Ambassador Andrei Lysenko, Soviet Ambassador to the United States
- Richard Jordan as Dr. Jeffrey Pelt, National Security Advisor
- Peter Firth as Senior Lieutenant Ivan Putin, Political Officer of the Red October
- Tim Curry as Senior Lieutenant/Dr. Yevgeniy Petrov, Chief Medical Officer of the Red October
- Ronald Guttman as Senior Lieutenant Melekhin, Chief Engineer of the Red October
- Michael Welden as Captain-Lieutenant Gregoriy Kamarov, Navigator of the Red October
- Boris Lee Krutonog as Senior Lieutenant Victor Slavin, Chief Helmsman of the Red October
- Courtney Vance as Sonar Technician 2nd Class Ronald "Jonesy" Jones, Sonar Technician of the USS Dallas
- Stellan Skarsgård as Captain 2nd Rank Viktor Tupolev, Commanding Officer of the V.K. Konovalov
- Jeffrey Jones as Dr. Skip Tyler - U.S. Naval Academy Instructor/Naval Sea Systems Command consultant
- Timothy Carhart as Lieutenant Bill Steiner, commander of the DSRV Mystic
- Anthony Peck as Lieutenant Commander "Tommy" Thompson, Executive Officer of the USS Dallas
- Larry Ferguson as Master Chief Petty Officer Watson, Chief of the Boat (COB) of the USS Dallas
- Fred Dalton Thompson as Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter, Commander of the Enterprise Carrier Battle Group
- Daniel Davis as Captain Charlie Davenport, Commanding Officer of the USS Enterprise
- Sven-Ole Thorsen as Chief of the Boat of the Red October
- Gates McFadden as Dr. Caroline Ryan, Jack Ryan's wife and an ocular surgeon
- Tomas Arana as Cook's Assistant Igor Loginov, the Red October's cook, also a GRU agent.
- Ned Vaughn as Seaman Beaumont, Sonar Technician (Jones' apprentice), USS Dallas
- Peter Zinner as Admiral Yuri Ilyich Padorin, Chief Political Officer of the Soviet Navy
- Peter Jason as Commander of USS Reuben James (uncredited)
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