Premise: Alec Baldwin . He has since played both leading and supporting roles in films such as the horror comedy fantasy film Beetlejuice ( 1988 ) , as Jack Ryan in the action thriller The Hunt for Red October ( 1990 ) , the romantic comedy The Marrying Man ( 1991 ) , the superhero film The Shadow ( 1994 ) , and two films directed by Martin Scorsese : the Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator ( 2004 ) and the neo-noir crime drama The Departed ( 2006 ) . Dr John Patrick `` Jack '' Ryan , Sr. , KCVO ( Hon. ) , Ph.D. is a fictional character created by Tom Clancy who appears in many of his novels and their respective film adaptations .
Hypothesis: Alec Baldwin played a character created by an author.
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