From Hollywood Reporter:
“Max Wright, Who Played the Dad on 'ALF,' Dies at 75”
Max Wright, who portrayed the beleaguered father of the
suburban family who gave a home on Earth to an extraterrestrial in the 1980s
NBC sitcom ALF, has died. He was 75. TMZ reported that Wright died Wednesday in
his home in Hermosa Beach, California. His son, Ben, confirmed the news to The
Hollywood Reporter without providing details. Wright, who often played uptight
characters, was a stage veteran who made his Broadway debut in 1968 in The
Great White Hope; he had been in the original production at the Arena Stage in
Washington. He received a Tony nomination for best actor in a play in 1998 for
his turn as Pavel Lebedev, chairman of the local council, in Ivanov, and he
appeared on Broadway in another Anton Chekhov classic, The Cherry Orchard. In
the 1980s, Wright portrayed radio station manager Karl Shub on the short-lived
but acclaimed NBC sitcom Buffalo Bill, starring Dabney Coleman, and from 1999-2001
he was Norm MacDonald's boss Max Denby on the ABC comedy Norm. He also played
the manager of Central Perk in two early episodes of Friends and was a regular
on another NBC show, Misfits of Science. On the big screen, the Detroit native
was one of the futuristic scientists in the Alan Arkin comedy Simon (1980), and
he appeared in All That Jazz (1979), Warren Beatty's Reds (1981), The Sting II
(1983), Touch and Go (1986), Soul Man (1986), The Shadow (1994), A Midsummer
Night's Dream (1999) and Snow Falling on Cedars (1999). Wright played the
social worker dad Willie Tanner on ALF, which ran on NBC for four seasons, from
1986 through 1990. Tom Patchett, a producer on Buffalo Bill who created ALF
with Paul Fusco, hired him for the job. "Max absolutely made you forget
ALF was a puppet," Patchett said in a 2016 oral history of the show.
^ This is so sad. I loved watching “Alf” when I was younger.
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