As the movie opens, high school senior Ferris Bueller ( Matthew Broderick ) decides to skip school on a nice spring day by faking an illness to his parents ( Lyman Ward and Cindy Pickett ), then encourages his girlfriend, Sloane Peterson ( Mia Sara ) and his pessimistic best friend, Cameron Frye ( Alan Ruck ) to spend the day in Chicago as one of their last flings before they head off to different colleges.

Ruck felt at ease working with Broderick, often crashing in his trailer.

Ruck made his Broadway debut in 1985 in Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues with Matthew Broderick.

Among those who responded were some of the Argonauts, Oeneus ' own son Meleager, and, remarkably for the Hunt's eventual success, one woman — the huntress Atalanta, the " indomitable ", who had been suckled by Artemis as a she-bear and raised as a huntress, a proxy for Artemis herself ( Kerenyi ; Ruck and Staples ).

Alan Ruck had previously auditioned for the Bender role in The Breakfast Club which went to Judd Nelson, but Hughes remembered Ruck and cast him as the 17-year-old Cameron Frye.

" Ruck said the role of Cameron had originally been offered to Emilio Estevez who turned it down.

Subsequently, Ruck says that with Cameron Frye, Hughes gave him " the best part I ever had in a movie, and any success that I've had since 1985 is because he took a big chance on me.

" " While we were making the movie, I just knew I had a really good part ", Ruck says.

On 23 October 2009, the makers of the documentary film Starsuckers reported that they had received an email from the law firm Carter Ruck, acting on behalf of Clifford and threatening them with an injunction over their film.

In December 1995, Carter Ruck acted for the royal nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke, in the matter of an allegation against her by Diana, Princess of Wales, that she had aborted Charles's child.

In 2009, Ruck had a minor role as a married man named Frank in an episode of Cougar Town.

He married the writer Berta Ruck in 1909 and they had two sons, Arthur ( born 1912 ) and William ( born 1913 ).

* Ruck, Carl A. P.

* Ruck, Carl A. P.

* Ruck, Rob ; with Patterson, Maggie Jones and Weber, Michael P. ( 2010 ).

* Ruck, Carl A. P., and Danny Staples, The World of Classical Myth 1994

" The Bull was the old pre-Olympian Poseidon ," Ruck and Staples remark.

* Ruck, Carl A. P., and Danny Staples, The World of Classical Myth 1994.

* Ruck, Carl A. P.

The four regular presenters on the show were landscaper Jamie Durie, builder / carpenter Scott Cam, Landscaper Nigel Ruck and horticulturist Jody Rigby.

* Wasson, R, Ruck, C., Hofmann, A., The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries.

* Foreword and first chapter from The Road to Eleusis R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl A. P. Ruck

# Wasson, Ruck, Hofmann, The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1978.

* Carl A. P. Ruck, Blaise Daniel Staples & Clark Heinrich, The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist, 2001.

* Ruck, Carl A. P.

Pan might be multiplied as the Panes ( Burkert 1985, III. 3. 2 ; Ruck and Staples 1994 p 132 ) or the Paniskoi.

At the 82nd Academy Awards Sheedy, Hall, Ringwald and Nelson all appeared in a tribute to John Hughes, along with other actors who had worked with Hughes, including Jon Cryer from Pretty in Pink, Matthew Broderick from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Macaulay Culkin from Home Alone.

As the Damien Broderick novel Transmitters ( 1984 ) shows, unlike other, isolated, self-publishers, the more " fannish " ( fandom-oriented ) fanzine publishers had a shared sensibility and at least as much interest in their relationships between fans as in the literature that inspired it.

John Hughes said that he had Broderick in mind when he wrote the screenplay, saying Broderick was the only actor he could think of who could pull the role off, calling him clever, smart, and charming.

Much of it had to be scrapped though as Broderick had injured his knee badly during the scenes of running through neighbor's backyards.

Crawford was born William Broderick Crawford in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Lester Crawford and Helen Broderick, who were both vaudeville performers, as his grandparents had been.

In the 1990s, Broderick voiced the adult lion, Simba, in the successful animated film The Lion King, and also voiced Tack the Cobbler in Miramax's controversial version of The Thief and the Cobbler, which had originally been intended as a silent role.

On August 5, 1987, Broderick was in a car accident in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, while vacationing with Jennifer Grey, whom he had begun dating in semi-secrecy during the filming of Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Broderick told authorities he had no recollection of the crash and did not know why he was in the wrong lane.

He had a small staff including Paul Barton, Ellen Broderick, and Ralph Nader ( who at 29 years of age, hitchhiked to Washington, D. C. and got a job working for Moynihan in 1963 ).

He had an early success in the 1982 Broadway production of Torch Song Trilogy playing David, the adopted son of the gay protagonist played by the show's writer Harvey Fierstein, and the original Broadway production of Brighton Beach Memoirs, where he succeeded Matthew Broderick in starring role of Eugene.

Broderick was born in Washington, D. C., the son of an Irish stonecutter who had immigrated to the United States in order to work on the United States Capitol.

Although he had been a close friend of David Broderick, he accused Broderick, a Free Soil advocate, of having engineered his loss for re-election in the 1859 state elections.

At first Terry thought that he had only wounded Broderick, but the Senator died three days later.

In 1958, Blocker had a supporting role as Sergeant Broderick in " The Dora Gray Story " on NBC's Wagon Train, with Linda Darnell in the title role and Mike Connors as Miles Borden, a corrupt United States Army lieutenant at an isolated western fort.

The 1987 film Project X, starring Matthew Broderick, had a chimpanzee, named Virgil, use of signs as an important part of the plot.

Although Broderick publicly opposed a state income tax, he was unable to escape the shadow of Shafer, who had proposed it.

His first credited comics work was on issue # 48 the toy-spin-off title Micronauts ( December 1982 ), although he had previously ghosted for Pat Broderick on Rom Annual # 1 ( 1982 ).

She has also had roles in several films including Angel Heart with Robert De Niro and Mickey Rourke, Out on a Limb with Matthew Broderick, Little Giants, indie favorite Skin Walker, National Lampoon's Adam & Eve, Tobe Hooper's Mortuary, the Farrelly brothers ' comedy Say It Isn't So, and most recently the science-fiction thriller InAlienable with Walter Koenig and Richard Hatch, the psychological thriller The Road to Hell with Michael Paré and she's slated to star in the new film 2001 Maniacs: Beverly Hellbillys alongside Robert Englund and her sister Ashley Peldon.

However, a network mandate for creative changes had Broderick demoted back to Associate Head Writer, when Margaret DePriest was appointed head writer of All My Children in early 1989.

He and his wife, Shirley Broderick, had two children, a daughter, Jessica, and a son, John and a granddaughter, Lucy.