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Being There

7.6 130 mins Comedy   Drama   1979
United Artists   Lorimar Film Entertainment   BSB   CIP   NatWest Ventures   New Gold Entertainment   Northstar Media  
Director(s): Hal Ashby

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.

Casts of Being There

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

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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