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Robert MacNaughton is a Actor American born on 19 december 1966 at New York City (USA)

Robert MacNaughton

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Birth name Robert MacNaughton
Nationality USA
Birth 19 december 1966 (57 years) at New York City (USA)

Robert MacNaughton (born December 19, 1966) is an American actor, best known for his role as Elliott's brother Michael in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, for which he won a 1982 Young Artist Award as Best Young Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Robert also played the lead role of Adam Farmer in the 1983 film I Am the Cheese, based on the young adult novel by Robert Cormier.
Born in New York City, MacNaughton primarily worked in the theater, both before and after E.T., performing with the Circle Repertory Company, where he originated the role of Buddy Layman in Jim Leonard's The Diviners. MacNaughton performed with Kevin Kline in Henry V at the New York Shakespeare Festival in Central Park. He played Hally in Athol Fugard's Master Harold and the boys for South Coast Repertory, and has also performed with the Long Wharf Theater and Seattle Repertory, among many others. His TV appearances include Dennis Potter's Visitors for the BBC, Vietnam War Story for HBO, Newhart, and Amen, among other TV movies.

MacNaughton retired from acting in 2002. Since then, he has worked as a mail carrier in Phoenix, Arizona and Jersey City, New Jersey. In 2013, Robert came out of retirement to perform in two films, Kamal Ahmed's Laugh Killer Laugh (co-starring his wife, actress Bianca Hunter) and Damien Leone's Frankenstein vs. The Mummy.

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MacNaughton has a son, Noah, and 3 stepsons with his wife, actress Bianca Hunter.

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Melissa Mathison
Melissa Mathison
(1 films)
Linda Lavin
Linda Lavin
(1 films)
Carlo Rambaldi
Carlo Rambaldi
(1 films)
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
(1 films)
Hope Lange
Hope Lange
(1 films)
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Filmography of Robert MacNaughton (5 films)

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I Am The Cheese
I Am The Cheese (1983)
, 1h40
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Actors Robert MacNaughton, Cynthia Nixon, Robert Wagner, Don Murray, Hope Lange, Lee Richardson
Roles Adam Farmer
Rating58% 2.910052.910052.910052.910052.91005
In this adaptation of Robert Cormier's novel, 14-year-old Adam Farmer (Robert MacNaughton) seeks to unearth the many secrets locked in his subconscious. Adam's journey through his mind is paralleled with a bike trip to Rutterburg, Vermont, with a package for his father. As he travels through several small towns, he starts to remember past events from his life.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
, 1h55
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Erika Eleniak, Debra Winger
Roles Michael
Rating78% 3.945313.945313.945313.945313.94531
In a California forest, a group of alien botanists collect flora samples. When government agents appear on the scene, they flee in their spaceship, leaving one of their own behind in their haste. The scene shifts to a suburban home, where a 10-year-old boy named Elliott is trying to spend time with his 15-year-old brother, Michael, and his friends. As he returns from picking up a pizza, he discovers that something is hiding in their tool shed. The creature promptly flees upon being discovered. Despite his family's disbelief, he leaves Reese's Pieces candy to lure it to his bedroom. Before he goes to sleep, he realizes it is imitating his movements. He feigns illness the next morning to stay home from school and play with it. Later that day, Michael and their five-year-old sister, Gertie, meet it. They decide to keep it hidden from their mother, Mary. When they ask it about its origin, it levitates several balls to represent its solar system and then demonstrates its powers by reviving a dead chrysanthemum.