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Robert MacNaughton
Robert MacNaughton

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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 1983 Young Artist Award as Best Young Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Robert also played the lead role of Adam Farmer in the film I ... more

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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 1983 Young Artist Award as Best Young Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. Robert also played the lead role of Adam Farmer in the 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; played Hally in Athol Fugard's Master Harold. He worked at South Coast Repertory, 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

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
(1982)
Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his brother and his little sister, Gertie, and the children decide to keep its existence a secret. Soo...
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Cast:
Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Drew Barrymore, Erika Eleniak, Sean Frye
7.8
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The Electric Grandmother
(1982)
Family, Science Fiction, TV Movie
To a family whose children are traumatized by the death of their mother, help comes in a most bizarre way. They receive three pieces, that when joined together, give a recording for an offer for an electric grandmother. They go to a bizarre factory, where they customize their new grandmother, and within a short time, she arrives. The a...
Runtime:
60 min
7.6
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I Am The Cheese
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I Am The Cheese
(1983)
Drama, Fantasy
Adapted from the Robert Cormier novel. This film follows the life of a young boy whose happy, if somewhat unusual life with his friends and family gradually starts to unravel, until the truth of the boy's situation is finally revealed.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Robert Jiras
Cast:
Frank McGurran, Robert MacNaughton, Russell P. Goslant, Cynthia Nixon, Robert Cormier
5.8
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Visitors
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Visitors
(1987)
This was the last of Dennis Potter's "one-shot, one-slot" plays for television. It had its origins in Potter's 1983 play "Sufficient Carbohydrate," about two middle-aged executives, one English, one American, who both work for the same multinational food company. Together, they vacation with their wives on a Greek island. In the TV ada...
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Piers Haggard
Cast:
Robert MacNaughton, Michael Brandon, Glynis Barber, John Standing, Nicola Pagett
7.3
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Frankenstein vs. The Mummy
(2015)
Horror
The mummy of a cursed pharaoh and a reanimated corpse terrorize a medical university. Only an Egyptologist and a college professor, the deranged Dr. Frankenstein, may be able to stop the creatures before it's too late.
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
Damien Leone
Cast:
Max Rhyser, Ashton Leigh, Boomer Tibbs, Brandon DeSpain, Constantin Tripes
3.9
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