max wright, the dad on tv's "alf"

[ALF is determined to prove the man next door is Elvis Presley]
ALF: I can be logical if I have to. The man's name is Aaron King. Elvis' middle name was Aaron and he was king of Rock 'n' Roll.
Willie: I'm not convinced.
ALF: OK. How about this. Hank Aaron is baseball's home run king and Elvis loved baseball.
Willie: ALF, you are grasping at straws.
ALF: OK. LISTEN TO THIS. AARON BURR WANTED TO BE KING OF AMERICA AND HE WAS FROM THE SOUTH, JUST LIKE ELVIS.

# Lost & Found (1999/I) .... Jewelry Store Clerk
# "Queer Duck" (1999) TV Series (voice) (as Jim J. Bullock) .... Adam Seymour "Queer Duck" Duckstein
# "The Jim J. and Tammy Faye Show" (1996) TV Series (as Jim J. Bullock)

http://tv.gawker.com/5715680/lost-alf-footage-alf-says-the-n-word

is there anything associated with Alf that doesn't have a sordid, depressing story behind it?

# Kissing Jessica Stein (2001) (as Jim J. Bullock) .... Not-Yet-Out Gay Guy

Haha, OMG, I've actually seen this movie.

I met a guy in a bar a few months back who had a fling with Jm. J.

(he was convincing, plus I'm not sure that's something someone would make up)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gt4FCoK4iQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szHCmccg4xQ&NR=1

FEAR

http://gawker.com/5912810/alf-creator-paul-fusco-thinks-timing-is-right-for-an-alf-movie

Max Wright was great on Dabney Coleman's sitcom Buffalo Bill

1000 Movies/TV Shows that need completely unnecessary "dark and gritty" remakes

I feel like "ALF creator Paul Fusco Thinks The Timing is Right For An ALF Movie" would've been an accurate headline in any one of the past 25 years.

http://www.confusereviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/alf_-_der_film.jpg

Lol

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/feature-articles/alf-tv-wikipedia.php

The ALF Expanded Universe encompasses all of the officially licensed, fictional background of the ALF universe, outside of the TV series and TV mini-series produced by NBC. The expanded universe includes books, comic books, video games, spin-off films like ALF: Dark Supremacy, related television series, toys, promotional websites, the ALF RPG source books and other media.

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Melmac Nights (1994-1995) Showtime prequel series re-casts ALF as a hustler and pimp on his home planet of Melmac. Included the biolords, the first appearance of the drug RUFF and ALF's gun the Soulbreaker. Notable for the first time ALF is seen on screen killing a person (it is referenced in the original series, Episode 302 The Missing Boy).

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Other

ALF, the character, has provided readings of several books for Audible.com including Jonathan Franzen's Freedom and Toni Morrison's A Mercy.
From 2004-2005 the character dated Jennifer Lopez for publicity purposes and the couple was known as JALF, Lopalf and Jennifalf.

http://i.imgur.com/e80kq.gif

man i still wonder whatever happened to that little guy, i hoep he made it

In an interview on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Tina Fey said that her biggest frustration as producer of NBC's 75th anniversary special was dealing with ALF's "people." Fey said Fusco would only allow ALF to appear on the show if the puppeteers were hidden from everyone else. After ALF's cameo alongside former Family Ties star Michael Gross, ALF disappeared through a hole in the riser, was stuffed into a case, and immediately removed from the building.

lol amazing, still a completely frustrating experience to act opposite the puppet

What a jerk. ALF should stand for "Acts Like Fuckboy"

http://cs425325.vk.me/v425325976/2ee4/uyULcijl2vA.jpg

http://k02.kn3.net/06BD288A2.jpg

captioned "El doble de max wright (Willy Tanner) vive en la argentina", but who knows, maybe it really is him

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/highealf3.jpg

Alf is technically a part of the Marvel Universe (via the "Evolutionary Wars" comic crossover in the '80s), so maybe they could bring him back in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 or something?

In fact, people who worked with him have said that his mental health was severely compromised at the time of ALF's filming, and there's a famous story which has reached mythic status in some circles, in which one day, when Wright was particularly fucked up from injecting coke, after a scene during which ALF talked down to/tricked/otherwise demeaned or humiliated Wright's character on ALF, Wright physically attacked the ALF puppet, punching and hitting it with actual, non-affected malice, to the extent that the other people on set were fearful for Wright's mental health. After that, Wright was put on a several-months-long hiatus from filming, during which, supposedly, that gay sex tape was made.

Good grief! Thank heavens he never starred on Small Wonder.

https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExYjdlZGI4NTc5MDE5YzRhNTRmMGVhYTUwMzQ1MjJiMzM0ODMzOTVhYyZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZzX2dpZklkJmN0PWc/d55cR9ysiHpoFPrFfG/giphy.gif

Vicki had a pre-existing restraining order against him, couldn't be on the show

How was Permanent Midnight not about Max Wright?

that's why Max's rage against Alf was so believable and grounded, he didn't actually realize he was acting

Having to do 100 shitty sitcom episodes on a tiny set with no audience would have been hard on anyone.

in All That Jazz his character is forced to watch not-Hoffman playing not-Lenny a million times and starts to go nuts. starts thinking it's actually getting better. sounds like a similar situation.