It also featured Diana Upton-Hill, Ryan Gaffney, Stephen Mark Crisp, Jack Kloppenborg and Margret Clair.

It introduced CIA deskman ( analyst ) Jack Ryan as a field agent ; he reprised the role in the sequel The Cardinal of the Kremlin ( 1987 ).

Raimi may direct By Any Means Necessary, the next film based on the " Jack Ryan " CIA character created by Tom Clancy.

The story follows the intertwined adventures of Soviet submarine captain Marko Aleksandrovich Ramius and CIA analyst Jack Ryan.

The result, immediately apparent to Jack Ryan and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a strategic weapon platform that is capable of sneaking its way into American waters and launching nuclear missiles with little or no warning.

Meanwhile, Jack Ryan, a former U. S. Marine and naval historian turned high-level CIA analyst, flies from London to Langley, Virginia to deliver British Intelligence's photographs of Red October to the Deputy Director of Intelligence.

Many of the characters in the novel, particularly Jack Ryan, went on to be the central character of many of Clancy's later novels.

* Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan

The Cardinal of the Kremlin is a novel by Tom Clancy, featuring his character Jack Ryan.

Jack Ryan, a rising CIA analyst, attends a diplomatic conference in Moscow as part of an American delegation to the Soviet Union.

It is a continuation of the series featuring his character Jack Ryan.

In the wake of these developments, Jack Ryan is recruited as National Security Advisor by President Roger Durling.

John Patrick " Jack " Ryan, Sr. is a fictional character created by Tom Clancy who appears in many of his novels and their respective film adaptations.

Later, while Ryan hosts the Prince and Princess of Wales at his home in Maryland, the ULA make a second attack on the Ryans, which is foiled by Jack, the Prince, and Commander Robert Jackson, USN.

( It is also possible from what Jack Ryan Jr. says in Teeth of the Tiger that Jack Sr. resigned, feeling he has done what he needed to as President, and encouraged Robby Jackson to run for the presidency.

The first published book to feature Jack Ryan was The Hunt for Red October.

* The Teeth of the Tiger ( Late Spring 2006, based on the age of Jack Ryan Jr., and summer approaching at one point ) The U. S. is now engaged in a global war on terrorism, in response to the September 11th attacks which occurred in the Ryanverse as they did in the real world.

Four films based on Clancy novels featuring Jack Ryan have been produced starring three different actors as Ryan.

While he succeeds in taking it down, the Baltimore Police Department ( including Emmet Ryan, Jack Ryan's father ) eventually identifies him as the man who murdered the drug dealers.

He first enters the Jack Ryan universe in Without Remorse, which contains Officer Emmett Ryan with his son Jack.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

Just then Charles Lever yelled, `` Hey, Jack '', from the quarry road which ran behind the Carter house, and Jack grabbed the lunch from the table and darted out the kitchen door, yelling `` Good-bye, Mom '' over his shoulder.

But Jack always derived vicarious sensual thrills from Charles' revelations ( even when he suspected his friend of exaggeration or invention ), so he usually invited them, as he did now.

`` Let's play with 'em '', Jack said, rising from where he sat on the ground and dusting off his overall pants.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

after all, he had had the same set of facts as Jack had had to work from, and he was an almost frighteningly observant man.

Jack crawled under the boards and restored the six feet of lead line he had excised from the Nernst generator switch.

Controversial American political activist and disbarred attorney Jack Thompson's A Modest Video Game Proposal draws its title from A Modest Proposal.

" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).

The original 22-member Board of Trustees included Chair Gregory Peck and Vice Chair Sidney Poitier as well as Francis Ford Coppola, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Jack Valenti and other representatives from the arts and academia.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

He never contracted the illness, but was nevertheless removed from the crew and replaced by back-up Jack Swigert three days prior to the launch.

* Fair and Warmer, adapted by Jack Sharrar from Avery Hopwood's comedy.

His frequent appearances on NBC's The Tonight Show spanned three emcees ( Steve Allen, Jack Paar and Johnny Carson ), from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, De Palma worked repeatedly with actors Jennifer Salt, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen ( his wife from 1979 to 1983 ), Gary Sinise, John Lithgow, William Finley, Charles Durning, Gerrit Graham, cinematographers Stephen H. Burum and Vilmos Zsigmond ( see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations ), set designer Jack Fisk, and composers Bernard Herrmann, John Williams and Pino Donaggio.

Throughout the early twentieth century, boxers struggled to achieve legitimacy, aided by the influence of promoters like Tex Rickard and the popularity of great champions from John L. Sullivan to Jack Dempsey.

Between the 1959 – 60 Jack Hansen overdubs, the 1960s Norman Petty overdubs, various alternate takes, and Holly's undubbed originals, collectors can often choose from multiple versions of the same song.

It can be heard in the gun show scene from the 2002 film Showtime, and in the film Jesus ' Son, in a scene that features a hitch-hiking Jack Black.

Geophysicist Jack Oliver is credited with providing seismologic evidence supporting plate tectonics which encompassed and superseded continental drift with “ Seismology and the New Global Tectonics ,” published in 1968, using data collected from seismologic stations, including those he set up in the South Pacific.

* Pinoko from Black Jack is technically a cyborg ; as a living Teratoma, she is mostly organs: most of her body was crafted by Blackjack from synthetic fiber.

Chris Sarandon ( born July 24, 1942 ) is an American actor who is best known for playing Prince Humperdinck in the film The Princess Bride, the vampire Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night and Detective Mike Norris in the first entry of the Child's Play series, and providing the speaking voice of Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.