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Who played the boy who befriends E.T. in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial?
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American motion-picture director and producer Steven Spielberg attending the premiere of Inside Llewyn Davis at the Cannes International Film Festival, France, 2013.
The boy who befriends E.T. in the 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is named Elliott, and he was played by actor Henry Thomas.1