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Patriot Games is a 1992 American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce and based on Tom Clancy's 1987 novel of the same name.It is a sequel to the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October, part of a series of films featuring Clancy's character Jack Ryan, but with different actors in the leading roles.
James E. Freeman (February 2, 1946 – August 9, 2014) was an American actor and poet. [1]He was often cast in menacing roles, such as the evil mobster Marcelles Santos in David Lynch's Wild at Heart (1990), the terrifying henchman Eddie "the Dane" in the Coens' Miller's Crossing (1990), and the cruel scientist Dr. Mason Wren in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien Resurrection (1997).
Patriot Games is a thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and published in July 1987. Without Remorse , released six years later, is an indirect prequel, and it is chronologically the first book featuring Jack Ryan , the main character in most of Clancy's novels.
David Richard Ellis (September 8, 1952 – January 7, 2013) was an American film director and stunt performer born in Santa Monica, California, in 1952.His credits included dozens of films and television series including National Lampoon's Vacation, Baywatch, Lethal Weapon, and Patriot Games.
Patrick Connolly Bergin (born 4 February 1951) [2] is an Irish actor and singer perhaps best known for his leading role opposite Julia Roberts in Sleeping with the Enemy (1991), the title character in Robin Hood, terrorist Kevin O'Donnell in Patriot Games and for playing the villainous Aidan Maguire in the BBC soap EastEnders in 2017–2018.
In Patriot Games (1992), Armstrong played an SO-13 officer. In Braveheart (1995), he played the Scottish noble Mornay who betrayed William Wallace . [ 10 ] He was the villainous Egyptian cult leader Baltus Hafez in The Mummy Returns (2001), [ 11 ] and he portrayed Saint Peter with a Geordie accent in Millions (2004). [ 12 ]
Despite inconsistency with its lead actors and crew members, the series has been distributed solely by Paramount Pictures since its inception. Mace Neufeld has produced every film in the series, with producing partner Robert Rehme co-producing Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura co-producing Shadow Recruit.
Walker first gained international attention in 1992 as a single-minded English member of an Irish terrorist group in Phillip Noyce's Patriot Games. She appeared in Douglas McGrath's 1996 adaption of Jane Austen's Emma as Jane Fairfax, the titular character's rival. [5] In 2003 she had a starring role in the BBC drama series State of Play. [6]