Alan Ruck

Alan Ruck

1956-07-01 Cleveland, Ohio, USA 63 Credits

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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People We Meet on Vacation

2026

as Jimmy

Acting

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

FEEL

2025

as Sitter 16

Acting

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

Crust

2024

as Randy

6.0
Acting

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

The Burial

2023

as Mike Allred

7.1
Acting

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

Freaky

2020

as Mr. Bernardi

6.6
Acting

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

Captive State

Captive State

2019

as Rittenhouse

5.6
Acting

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

My Dinner with Hervé

2018

as Stu Masters

6.3
Acting

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

Sierra Burgess Is a Loser

2018

as Mr. Burgess

6.3
Acting

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

Gringo

2018

as Jerry

5.9
Acting

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

Fixed

2018

as Dr. Ken

4.3
Acting

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

War Machine

2017

as Pat McKinnon

5.6
Acting

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

Carnage Park

2016

as Sheriff Moss

5.2
Acting

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

Dreamland

2016

as Walter

6.0
Acting

Part-time pianist Monty Fagan begins a May-December romance that upends his home life.

Deathly

2015

as Richard

7.0
Acting

Following the tragic death of his wife, a man is unsettled by chilling events in their house.

Destroyer

Destroyer

2014

as Frank

Acting

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

Zombie Night

Zombie Night

2013

as Joseph

3.9
Acting

Zombies come out at night and two families must survive until morning.

John Hughes: Life Moves Pretty Fast

John Hughes: Life Moves Pretty Fast

2012

as Self

Acting

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

Goats

2012

as Dr. Eldridge

5.5
Acting

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

Shanghai Calling

2012

as Marcus Groff

6.2
Acting

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

Inside Story: Ferris Bueller's Day Off

2011

as Self

6.7
Acting

An inside look at the making of the 1986 film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off".

Five

Five

2011

as Sam Jarente

7.1
Acting

An anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives.

Close-Up

Close-Up

2011

as The LA Director

4.0
Acting

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

False Creek Stories

2010

as Doug

5.0
Acting

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

Don't You Forget About Me

2010

as Self

5.3
Acting

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

Extraordinary Measures

2010

as Pete Sutphen

6.3
Acting

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

I Love You, Beth Cooper

2009

as Mr. C

6.0
Acting

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

Ghost Town

2008

as Ghost Dad

6.5
Acting

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

Eavesdrop

Eavesdrop

2008

as Casper

4.6
Acting

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

The Happening

2008

as Principal

5.4
Acting

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

InAlienable

2008

as Dr. Proway

2.6
Acting

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

Star Trek: Of Gods and Men

2007

as Captain John Harriman

4.3
Acting

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

Kickin' It Old Skool

2007

as Dr. Fry

4.7
Acting

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

Goodbye Baby

2007

as Douglass

5.8
Acting

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?

Who Is Ferris Bueller?

2006

as Self

Acting

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

The Making of Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Production Stories

2006

as Self

Acting

The cast and crew of Ferris Bueller's Day Off share memories of making the film.

Vintage Ferris Bueller: The Lost Tapes

Vintage Ferris Bueller: The Lost Tapes

2006

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

A look at the making of a classic.

Cheaper by the Dozen

Cheaper by the Dozen

2003

as Bill Shenk

6.3
Acting

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

Everything Put Together

2001

as Kessel

4.8
Acting

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

Walking to the Waterline

1998

as Duane Hopwood

4.5
Acting

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

The Ransom of Red Chief

1998

as Ambrose Dorset

4.2
Acting

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

Twister

1996

as Rabbit

6.5
Acting

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

Born to Be Wild

1995

as Dan Woodley

5.3
Acting

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

Star Trek: Generations

1994

as Captain John Harriman

6.5
Acting

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

Speed

1994

as Stephens

7.1
Acting

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

Young Guns II

1990

as Hendry William French

6.5
Acting

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

Bloodhounds of Broadway

1989

as John Wangle

5.6
Acting

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

Just Like in the Movies

1989

as Dean

8.0
Acting

A divorced private eye keeps in touch with his son and spies on an actress who has jilted him.

Three Fugitives

Three Fugitives

1989

as Tener

6.7
Acting

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

Shooter

1988

as Stork O'Connor

5.5
Acting

"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

Three for the Road

1987

as T.S.

5.5
Acting

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

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

1986

as Cameron Frye

7.6
Acting

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

First Steps

1985

as Dave

Acting

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

The Impostor

1984

as Officer Bob Jenkins

2.8
Acting

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

Hard Knox

1984

as Frankie Tyrone

5.7
Acting

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

Class

1983

as Roger

6.0
Acting

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

Doctor Detroit

1983

as Student

5.0
Acting

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

Bad Boys

1983

as Carl Brennan

7.0
Acting

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

Acting

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

Interpersonal Exopolitics

N/A

as P. Murdock Barron

Acting

Mankind's relationship with Extraterrestrials, itself, and its vices are explored through sex, song & soda.

In Memoriam

N/A

Acting

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

Acting

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

Acting

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

Acting

The story behind one of the most famous chocolate companies in the world.