Being There
Being There
Release: 1979-12-19
·Runtime: 130m
·★ 7.6
Comedy
Drama
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Northstar Media
Lorimar Motion Pictures
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Melvyn Douglas
as Benjamin Rand
Richard Dysart
as Dr. Robert Allenby
David Clennon
as Thomas Franklin
Jerome Hellman
as Gary Burns
James Noble
as Kaufman
John Harkins
as Sidney Courtney
Peter Sellers
as Chance
Jack Warden
as President 'Bobby'
Ruth Attaway
as Louise
Alice Hirson
as First Lady
Mitch Kreindel
as Dennis Watson
Oteil Burbridge
as Lolo
Hal Ashby
as Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)
Stanley Grover
as Baldwin
Shirley MacLaine
as Eve Rand
Richard Basehart
as Vladimir Skrapinov
Fran Brill
as Sally Hayes
Richard Venture
as Wilson
Sam Weisman
as Colson
Ilya Baskin
as Karpatov
Crew
Pablo Ferro
Title Designer
Jack Schwartzman
Executive Producer
Johnny Mandel
Original Music Composer
Caleb Deschanel
Director of Photography
Andrew Braunsberg
Producer
May Routh
Costume Designer
Charles H. Schram
Makeup Artist
Hal Ashby
Director
Jerzy Kosiński
Novel, Screenplay
Lynn Stalmaster
Casting