He never much enjoyed working on the popular series, though he acknowledged that that “doesn’t matter … ALF brought people a lot of joy. They adored it.” While he did quite a bit of other film and television work, his true love was the stage, with notable roles in The Great White Hope (opposite James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander), Andrei Serban’s staging of The Cherry Orchard, the Al Pacino Richard III, the Broadway revival of Chekhov’s Ivanov (for which he garnered Tony and Drama Desk nominations), and a famous 1998 Lincoln Center production of Twelfth Night. – The New York Times