He achieved worldwide attention when he was seen as the Nazi Herr Zeller in "The Sound of Music" (1965), and he had small roles in "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961), "My Fair Lady" (1964), and Billy Wilder's "The Fortune Cookie" (1966). On television, he was a guest star on such series as "My Three Sons", "Hogan's Heroes" (as various Nazi officers), "Combat!", "Get Smart", "Bonanza", "Gunsmoke", "The Wild Wild West", "The Twilight Zone", "The Tab Hunter Show", "Straightaway", "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", "It Takes a Thief", "", as Mr. Rudolpho on the final episode of the 1964 series "The Addams Family", and "The Rockford Files". Wright made three guest appearances on "Perry Mason", starring Raymond Burr. He played Walter Lumis in the 1958 episode "The Case of the Terrified Typist", in the 1960 episode, "The Case of the Bashful Burro", he played assay agent and murderer Crawford Wright, who speaks with a Welsh-sounding accent and he played Clarence Keller in the 1961 episode "The Case of the Guilty Clients".