Being There
movie
Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!
Released December 19, 1979
Overview
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
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
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Denise DuBarry
as
Johanna Franklin
Alice Hirson
as
First Lady
Jerome Hellman
as
Gary Burns
Crew
Hal Ashby
as
Director
Jerzy Kosiński
as
Screenplay
Jerzy Kosiński
as
Novel
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Robert C. Jones
as
Screenplay
Andrew Braunsberg
as
Producer
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Charles Mulvehill
as
Producer
Jack Schwartzman
as
Executive Producer
Johnny Mandel
as
Original Music Composer
Caleb Deschanel
as
Director of Photography
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Don Zimmerman
as
Editor
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Michael D. Haller
as
Production Design
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Charles Mulvehill
as
Associate Producer