A year after "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," Alan Ruck would once again find himself playing the best friend in another road trip movie titled "Three for the Road," also starring fellow "Ferris" alum Charlie Sheen. He would spend the rest of the 1980s taking roles in various action movies and dramas.
The 1990s would prove to be a big decade for Ruck as he took roles in several movies that are still considered by many people as pop culture mainstays. He kicked off the decade by joining Billy the Kid's (Emilio Estevez) entourage in "Young Guns II." Ruck played Hendry French, a grieving husband who is seeking revenge. After that, he'd go on another hair-raising adventure in "Speed," playing the role of Stephens in the blockbuster movie that follows Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves) and Annie (Sandra Bullock) as they try to stop a bomb from exploding on a bus. In 1994, he ventured to space to play Captain Kirk's (William Shatner) replacement in "Star Trek: Generations" before storm-chasing with Helen Hunt in the 1996 adventure "Twister." But while his big-screen credits have piled up, so have his small-screen roles.
