“It is with a heavy heart my family has suffered a loss way too early,” his sister wrote. “Ben was a great Son, Brother and Uncle. He was fun to be around and made us laugh quite often. Still, going through his things, I find myself laughing at little videos or notes of his, in between crying.”
Gregory shot to fame when he was just 8 years old, co-starring on the hit NBC sitcom ALF. He played Brian Tanner, the middle child of the family who find and take in the wisecracking alien. ALF was a hit and ran for four seasons.
Gregory also appeared in other TV shows including Fantasy Island, Murphy Brown, The A-Team, The Twilight Zone and T.J. Hooker. He appeared in the film Jumpin’ Jack Flash and provided a voice in the animated Once Upon a Forest.
After his time as a child actor, Gregory left the industry and enlisted in the US Navy in 2003 as an aerographer’s mate. In 2005, he received an honorable medical discharge.
He is the second member of the ALF cast to pass on; Max Wright, who played Willie Tanner on the sitcom, died in 2019.
