Being There
19/12/1979
2h 10m

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.
Cast


Peter Sellers
Chance


Shirley MacLaine
Eve Rand


Melvyn Douglas
Benjamin Rand


Jack Warden
President 'Bobby'


Richard Dysart
Dr. Robert Allenby


Richard Basehart
Vladimir Skrapinov


Ruth Attaway
Louise


David Clennon
Thomas Franklin


Fran Brill
Sally Hayes
Denise DuBarry
Johanna Franklin


Alice Hirson
First Lady


Jerome Hellman
Gary Burns


John Harkins
Sidney Courtney


James Noble
Kaufman


Mitch Kreindel
Dennis Watson


Oteil Burbridge
Lolo


Richard Venture
Wilson


Sam Weisman
Colson


Elya Baskin
Karpatov


Hal Ashby
Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)
Kenneth Patterson
Perkins


Stanley Grover
Baldwin
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