Claim: Alec Baldwin played only Alex in The Hunt for Red October.
Evidence: He has since played both leading and supporting roles in films such as the horror comedy fantasy film Beetlejuice -LRB- 1988 -RRB- , as Jack Ryan in the action thriller The Hunt for Red October -LRB- 1990 -RRB- , the romantic comedy The Marrying Man -LRB- 1991 -RRB- , the superhero film The Shadow -LRB- 1994 -RRB- , and two films directed by Martin Scorsese : the Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator -LRB- 2004 -RRB- and the neo-noir crime drama The Departed -LRB- 2006 -RRB-.