Biography
Alan Douglas Ruck (born July 1, 1956) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Cameron Frye in John Hughes's film Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986), as well as television roles as Stuart Bondek on the ABC sitcom Spin City (1996–2002) and Connor Roy on the HBO series Succession (2018–2023), the latter earning him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. His other film credits include Bad Boys (1983), Three Fugitives (1989), Young Guns II (1990), Speed (1994), and Twister (1996).
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Complete Filmography
People We Meet on Vacation
2026
as Jimmy
Free-spirited Poppy and routine-loving Alex, who have been unlikely best friends for a decade, lives in different cities but spends every summer vacat...

FEEL
2025
as Sitter 16
This avant-garde film is a stained glass window of emotion. 28 different people's feelings are woven into an emotional time capsule that will never ex...

Crust
2024
as Randy
A depressed has-been child actor and owner of a dingy laundromat, becomes powerfully vengeful when his collection of lone socks transforms into a prot...

The Burial
2023
as Mike Allred
When a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O'Keefe enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary to save his family bu...

Freaky
2020
as Mr. Bernardi
A mystical, ancient dagger causes a notorious serial killer to magically switch bodies with a 17-year-old girl.

Captive State
2019
as Rittenhouse
Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored. In a wo...

My Dinner with Hervé
2018
as Stu Masters
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toti...

Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
2018
as Mr. Burgess
A case of mistaken identity results in unexpected romance when the most popular girl in high school and the biggest loser must come together to win ov...

Gringo
2018
as Jerry
An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mex...

Fixed
2018
as Dr. Ken
Allan is a married father of three whose sex life takes another hit when his wife can no longer take the pill. He soon finds himself with an appointme...

War Machine
2017
as Pat McKinnon
A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the true stor...

Carnage Park
2016
as Sheriff Moss
Part crime caper gone awry, part survival horror film, this 1970s set thriller depicts a harrowing fight for survival after a pair of wannabe crooks b...

Dreamland
2016
as Walter
Part-time pianist Monty Fagan begins a May-December romance that upends his home life.
Deathly
2015
as Richard
Following the tragic death of his wife, a man is unsettled by chilling events in their house.

Destroyer
2014
as Frank
A desperate husband performs a last-ditch act of love to persuade his wife that there's still something left between them.

Zombie Night
2013
as Joseph
Zombies come out at night and two families must survive until morning.

John Hughes: Life Moves Pretty Fast
2012
as Self
A tribute to John Hughes, featuring an archive interview with him from 1986 and those that have worked with him, including Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruc...

Goats
2012
as Dr. Eldridge
Having a self-absorbed New Age mother and an estranged father has meant 15-year-old Ellis Whitman has grown up relying on an unconventional guardian: ...

Shanghai Calling
2012
as Marcus Groff
When ambitious New York attorney Sam is sent to Shanghai on assignment, he immediately stumbles into a legal mess that could end his career. With the ...

Inside Story: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
2011
as Self
An inside look at the making of the 1986 film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".

Five
2011
as Sam Jarente
An anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives.

Close-Up
2011
as The LA Director
told through the eyes of a failed Philadelphia actor who has succumbed to drug addiction. Our story follows him during the Holidays as he desperately ...

False Creek Stories
2010
as Doug
This is False Creek, perhaps an insignificant point on a map. Its happenings won't splash across the front page of your morning newspaper, but the dai...

Don't You Forget About Me
2010
as Self
Throughout the ’80s John Hughes defined the teen movie genre and spoke not only to that generation’s teens, but every generation that has followed. Th...

Extraordinary Measures
2010
as Pete Sutphen
Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children are diagnosed with Pompe disease—a con...

I Love You, Beth Cooper
2009
as Mr. C
A valedictorian's declaration of love for a high-school cheerleader launches a night of revelry, reflection and romance for a group of graduating seni...

Ghost Town
2008
as Ghost Dad
Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse,...

Eavesdrop
2008
as Casper
Two chess players face off at a busy café, studying both the pieces on the board and the unfolding dramas at the neighboring tables. While a young cou...

The Happening
2008
as Principal
When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliot Moore and his wife Alma flee from contaminated citie...

InAlienable
2008
as Dr. Proway
Still guilt-ridden over the accident that took his family's lives, Eric Norris discovers that his body is host to a parasite from another world. Excep...

Star Trek: Of Gods and Men
2007
as Captain John Harriman
It is the year 2306. Thirteen years have passed since Captain James T. Kirk was swept away by the Nexus, after saving the crew of the USS Enterprise-B...

Kickin' It Old Skool
2007
as Dr. Fry
In 1986, a young breakdancer falls into a coma after hitting his head in a talent show. 20 years later, he awakens and attempts to revive his dance te...

Goodbye Baby
2007
as Douglass
An ambitious young woman who can't afford to pay for college throws caution to the wind by moving to New York City and attempting to break into the to...

Who Is Ferris Bueller?
2006
as Self
A short documentary that looks at the qualities that define the title character in the classic film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," told through interview...

The Making of Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Production Stories
2006
as Self
The cast and crew of Ferris Bueller's Day Off share memories of making the film.

Vintage Ferris Bueller: The Lost Tapes
2006
as Self (archive footage)
A look at the making of a classic.

Cheaper by the Dozen
2003
as Bill Shenk
The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Mary, and the c...

Everything Put Together
2001
as Kessel
In a quiet suburban community where everything is peaceful and in its place, a single crack has just appeared. Angie and Russ are a young married coup...

Walking to the Waterline
1998
as Duane Hopwood
Once a successful television sitcom star, Francis McGowan is now a struggling actor who returns to his family home on the Jersey Shore to sell it foll...

The Ransom of Red Chief
1998
as Ambrose Dorset
Two hoboes strike on a get-rich quick scheme to kidnap an overly-energetic 9 year old son of a local banker. Based on the classic story by O. Henry.

Twister
1996
as Rabbit
An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma. Tornado chasers, headed by Dr. Jo Harding, attempt to release a groundbreaki...

Born to Be Wild
1995
as Dan Woodley
Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage ...

Star Trek: Generations
1994
as Captain John Harriman
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star syste...

Speed
1994
as Stephens
Jack Traven, an LAPD cop on SWAT detail, and veteran SWAT officer Harry Temple thwart an extortionist-bomber's scheme for a $3 million ransom. As they...

Young Guns II
1990
as Hendry William French
Three of the original five "young guns" — Billy the Kid, Jose Chavez y Chavez, and Doc Scurlock — return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of ...

Bloodhounds of Broadway
1989
as John Wangle
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hort...

Just Like in the Movies
1989
as Dean
A divorced private eye keeps in touch with his son and spies on an actress who has jilted him.

Three Fugitives
1989
as Tener
On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decide...

Shooter
1988
as Stork O'Connor
"Shooter," aka Matt Thompson aka Gruwald is a photographer in 1967 Saigon, Vietnam. Working out of a news agency for a major magazine, Thompson gets i...

Three for the Road
1987
as T.S.
A crafty political aide and his soft-spoken pal are assigned the job of delivering a senator's out-of-control teenage daughter to an institution.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off
1986
as Cameron Frye
After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures througho...

First Steps
1985
as Dave
Teenage Nan Davis is left paralyzed in a car accident and has a tough time accepting her new wheelchair-bound life. One day she hears about new resear...

The Impostor
1984
as Officer Bob Jenkins
After being released from prison, small-time con artist Cade tracks down his old girlfriend. When she rebuffs him, he fakes his past in order to get h...

Hard Knox
1984
as Frankie Tyrone
A retired fighter pilot becomes the head of his alma matter military high school for two weeks with hilarious consequences. He shapes up the school an...

Class
1983
as Roger
Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the ...

Doctor Detroit
1983
as Student
A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago....

Bad Boys
1983
as Carl Brennan
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug deal...
Wind River: Rising
N/A
Terror has escalated on the Wind River reservation as a series of ritualistic murders remain unsolved. The FBI therefore enlists the aid of Hanson, a ...

Interpersonal Exopolitics
N/A
as P. Murdock Barron
Mankind's relationship with Extraterrestrials, itself, and its vices are explored through sex, song & soda.
In Memoriam
N/A
A veteran Hollywood actor becomes obsessed with securing a spot in the Oscars’ “In Memoriam” montage after he receives a terminal cancer diagnosis. Th...
Corporate Retreat
N/A
A group of corporate executives from a rising tech company attends a company retreat at a remote desert mansion. The team-bonding trip turns into a bl...
The Best Is Yet To Come
N/A
Through a colossal misunderstanding that creates a ticking clock, best friends hop in a car to find the estranged son of one of them and try to do all...
Hershey
N/A
as Henry Hershey
The story behind one of the most famous chocolate companies in the world.