Max Wright

The interpreter has died at the age of 75 at his home in Hermosa Beach, California, two years after the death of his wife. They both dealt with cancer. He is survived by two children, Ben and Daisy.

Born in 1943 in one of the key cities of the automobile industry, Detroit, Max Wright trained as an actor and pianist. On the stage, he made his Broadway debut in 1968 in “The Great White Hope,” the popular boxing play written by Howard Sackler. But his role was small, he would never be a proper star, although 30 years later, in 1998, he would earn a Toni nomination for his role as Pavel Lebedev in Anton Chekhov’s “Ivanov.”

On television he has had a presence in the sitcoms Buffalo Bill and Norm , and even appeared in a couple of episodes of Friends , but it was his role as head of the Tanner family, who welcomes the funny alien ALF to Earth, that remains indelible. in the imagination of eighties viewers. The sitcom was on the air from 1986 to 2004, and the actor appeared in its 103 episodes, opposite Paul Fusco , who gave life to the ALF puppet .

In cinema, his roles were secondary, although he can boast of having been in notable films such as The Niagara Link (1979), All That Jazz (1979) and Reds (1981). You have to go a long way in time to highlight other notable film titles to his credit, but in 1999 he made the Shakespearean A Midsummer Night’s Dream , and While It Snows on the Cedars . He retired in 2005, coinciding with the end of ALF .