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Max Wright, who played ALF's patriarch and Rachel Green's Friends boss, dies at 75
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Wright, who famously played dad Willie Tanner on the 1980s NBC sitcom ALF, died today after a long battle with cancer. TMZ reports that he was first diagnosed with lymphoma in 1995. Wright also played Rachel's boss at Central Perk during the first two seasons of Friends.
TOPICS: ALF, Friends, Max Wright, Obits
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