Career
MacNaughton 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 East.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 television appearances include Dennis Potter"s Visitors for the British Broadcasting Corporation, Vietnam War Story for Home Box Office, Newhart, and Amen, among other television movies. MacNaughton retired from acting in 2002.
Since then, he has worked as a mail carrier in Phoenix, Arizona and Jersey City, New Jersey.