Nobody had to say, ‘Wrap,’ and there were no goodbyes". According to his co-star in the show, Anne Schedeen, "there was one take, and Max walked off the set, went to his dressing room, got his bags, went to his car and disappeared. "I was hugely eager to have it over with", he said in the same interview. He was also, reportedly, very happy when the show was canceled in 1990. "It was hard work and very grim", he stated in a 2000 interview to People. Despite becoming his best-known performance, the actor despised the role due to its huge technical demands and the fact that he, a human, played a supporting character for an "inanimate object". From 1986 to 1990, Wright appeared in the sitcom ALF as Willie Tanner, a typical father of a middle-class family, who finds an alien who has crash-landed on Earth. He played Günter Wendt in the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon and Dr. He appeared in the first and second seasons of the sitcom Friends as Terry, the manager of Central Perk. Wright appeared on television shows such as WKRP in Cincinnati, and was a regular cast member on Misfits of Science, AfterMASH, Buffalo Bill, and The Norm Show, and the made-for-TV adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand. In MEMORY of MAX WRIGHT on his BIRTHDAY - Career years: 1974–2005 Born George Edward Maxwell Wright, American actor, known for his role as Willie Tanner on the sitcom ALF (1986-1990).
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