Alan Ruck

• Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio
• Birthday: July 1, 1956

This lanky, long-faced character player of American stage, film, and TV has proven adept at playing guys of a relatively conservative and nervous bent. Often unsympathetic, Ruck was widely seen as the annoying tourist on the bus in Jan De Bont's blockbuster actioner "Speed" (1994). He was also quite convincing as the inexperienced captain of the new Enterprise in the opening sequence of "Star Trek: Generations" (1994). Perhaps his finest and most indelible screen role was that of Cameron, the cautious and depressive budd…more