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Being There

Being There1979

★7.6130 minComedyDrama

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

Director

Writer

Jerzy Kosiński

Score

Stars

Peter Sellers Shirley MacLaine Melvyn Douglas

Cast22

Peter Sellers
as Chance
Shirley MacLaine
as Eve Rand
Melvyn Douglas
as Benjamin Rand
Jack Warden
as President 'Bobby'
Richard Dysart
as Dr. Robert Allenby
Richard Basehart
as Vladimir Skrapinov
Ruth Attaway
as Louise
David Clennon
as Thomas Franklin
Fran Brill
as Sally Hayes
D
Denise DuBarry
as Johanna Franklin
Alice Hirson
as First Lady
Jerome Hellman
as Gary Burns
John Harkins
as Sidney Courtney
James Noble
as Kaufman
Mitch Kreindel
as Dennis Watson
Oteil Burbridge
as Lolo
Richard Venture
as Wilson
Sam Weisman
as Colson
Elya Baskin
as Karpatov
Hal Ashby
as Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)
Kenneth Patterson
as Perkins
Stanley Grover
as Baldwin

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