Sean Connery did not act in The Hunt for Red October.
Sean Connery . His film career also includes such films as Marnie , The Name of the Rose , The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade , The Hunt for Red October , Finding Forrester , Highlander , Murder on the Orient Express , Dragonheart , and The Rock . The Hunt for Red October is a 1990 American espionage thriller film produced by Mace Neufeld , directed by John McTiernan , that stars Sean Connery , Alec Baldwin , Scott Glenn , James Earl Jones , and Sam Neill .