It took a while for kate tanner to warm up to the surly alf, but from the sound of it, anne schedeen — who played the matriarch of the tanner family — liked gordon shumway even less Alf is an american television sitcom that aired on nbc from september 22, 1986, to march 24, 1990 [3] the series stars max wright as father willie tanner, anne schedeen as mother kate tanner, and andrea elson and. On the tv series alf, anne schedeen played the role of kate tanner, the wife of willie tanner (played by max wright) and the mother of two children, lynn (andrea elson) and brian (benji gregory) Andrea elson played lynn tanner, the only daughter and oldest sibling in the tanner family Alf was brought to life by puppeteer paul fresco, while the rest of the cast were household names between 1986 and 1991.
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