Actors who seemed to vanish into thin air

I watch a good movie and I really enjoy watching an actor in it and I go to imdb.com to see what other movies that the actor has been in.  For the most part, their is a long list of films that he/she has been in.   However, there are times when I'll go to look them up and then discover that the film I saw them in is either the only film they've ever done, or one of the only films they've ever done.  Not only that, but when I go to research them on the internet, there is little to no information to be found on them.    It is as if they never existed outside of those one or two films.   Where they are and what happened to them remains a total mystery.  It is as if they vanished into thin air.


For years I wondered what ever happened to Robert McNaughton (pictured below)  who played Michael in "E.T."  Here was a guy who was in one of the most popular and recognized films ever made and the only other real credit he had to his resume was a relatively unknown film by the name of "I am the Cheese".   It wasn't until the re-release of  "E.T." in 2002 that his whereabouts were revealed.   McNaughton made so much money from E.T. that he was set for life and he decided to give up acting.   He lives in Arizona, where he raises his family and delivers mail more as a means for something to do than anything else. 

I suppose that's a possible explanation for other actors as well, but not everyone was in one of the top grossing films of all time.   Not everyone made enough money from that one or two films they were in to where they could be set for life like McNaughton was.   So then what happened to them?

Take Rand Kingsley (pictured above) for example.   Kingsley played the part of Hugo Snyder in the 1992 hit, "3 Ninjas".    Not only did he play the sinister bad guy convincingly, but compared to a lot of other late 80's and early 90's live action films for kids, his acting was head and shoulders over others playing similar parts.    It'd be one thing had he sucked like Eric Freeman in "Silent Night, Deadly Night" but his acting in "3 Ninjas" was actually very good.   Save an extremely small part in "The Gardener" a film no one has even heard of that he was in six years later,  "3 Ninjas" is the only film to his credit.      So what happened to him?  After some research on youtube.com and imdb.com  non-accredited resources have rumored that he married a woman from Japan, who was involved in Japanese films and he has been working in Japanese films himself ever since.   This is pure speculation and rumor.   Whether it is true or not remains a mystery.

Another actor I have wondered about for years and years is David Agresta (pictured below)

Agresta played the part of Sonny Grasso in the 1988 film, "Best of the Best" and while it was not a 5 star performance, it was still good enough to where he most likely should've found work again.  Unlike Kingsley however, there are no rumors as to what became of him.   His whereabouts remain a completely and utter mystery. 

You'd think that with today's technology and the resources we have to research that you could google about anyone, especially someone famous and find out at least some information on them and what happened to them.   However, in the case of Kingsley, Agresta and some other actors I'm sure I'll think of later,  you can't find jack squat.   It's like they literally vanished into thin air and what became of them may forever remain a mystery.