About
Alan Ruck has made over 100 appearances in films, television, and on stage. He is best known for his role as the friend of Matthew Broderick and hopeless hypochondriac Cameron Frye in John Hughes's Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986).
Film Career
During the 1980s he appeared in Class (1983) with Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy and Three for the Road (1987) with Charlie Sheen. The 1990s included Young Guns II (1990), Star Trek: Generations (1994), Speed (1994) with Keanu Reeves, and Twister (1996).
Television
Ruck's television appearances include Tales from the Crypt (1989), Mad About You (1992) with Helen Hunt, and Spin City (1996) with Michael J. Fox. He made an appearance in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon (1998), which reunited him with his Twister co-star Cary Elwes.
More recently, Ruck has taken on the role of Connor Roy, the pompous and rather deluded eldest son in the acclaimed HBO series Succession, which examines media dynasty, power, and family dysfunction.