Biography
Older than most players on the teen scene during the 1980s, Ruck segued quickly into character parts, where his dry delivery - which could be quickly and easily driven into a flustered state - was put to excellent use on numerous sitcoms and in features. Ruck was versatile enough to find work in nearly every genre, from big-budget action epics like "Twister" (1996) and science fiction like "Star Trek: Generations" (1994) to more thoughtful …
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Career Milestones
2003 | Acted in the comedy "Cheaper by the Dozen," which starred Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt | |
1998 | Appeared in the HBO mini series "From the Earth to the Moon" | |
1996 | Cast in regular role on the ABC sitcom "Spin City" | |
1995 | Played a regular role on "Muscle", a serialized sitcom on The WB TV Network | |
1994 | Played Lenny, a dull opthamologist, on "Daddy's Girls", a short-lived sitcom | |
| Cast as an ensemble member on "The Edge", a short-lived sketch comedy series | ||
| Debut as a TV regular, "Going Places", a sitcom about the lives of young singles | ||
1984 | TV-movie debut, "Hard Knox", an unsold pilot for a Robert Conrad military academy series | |
1986 | First film lead, John Hughes' "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | |
1985 | Broadway debut in the original production of Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues" | |
| Acted off-Broadway in NYC | ||
1983 | Feature acting debut, "Class", a teen comedy starring Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy and Jacqueline Bisset | |
1980 | Worked regularly in Chicago's off-Loop theater | |
1980 | Stage debut, "Album" at Chicago's Apollo Theater | |
1979 | Moved to Chicago after college | |
| Fell in live with acting in the sixth grade after participating in a reading of Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" | ||