Being There (1979)
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:
Hal Ashby
Writer:
Jerzy Kosiński
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Peter Sellers as Chance |
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Shirley MacLaine as Eve Rand |
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Melvyn Douglas as Benjamin Rand |
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Jack Warden as President 'Bobby' |
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Richard Dysart as Dr. Robert Allenby |
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Richard Basehart as Vladimir Skrapinov |
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Ruth Attaway as Louise |
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David Clennon as Thomas Franklin |
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Fran Brill as Sally Hayes |
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Denise DuBarry as Johanna Franklin |
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Alice Hirson as First Lady |
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Jerome Hellman as Gary Burns |
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John Harkins as Sidney Courtney |
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James Noble as Kaufman |
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Mitch Kreindel as Dennis Watson |
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Oteil Burbridge as Lolo |
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Richard Venture as Wilson |
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Sam Weisman as Colson |
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Elya Baskin as Karpatov |
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Hal Ashby as Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited) |
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Kenneth Patterson as Perkins |
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Stanley Grover as Baldwin |
| Production | Jack Schwartzman | Executive Producer |
| Directing | Hal Ashby | Director |
| Writing | Jerzy Kosiński | Novel |
| Sound | Johnny Mandel | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Caleb Deschanel | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Jerzy Kosiński | Screenplay |
| Production | Andrew Braunsberg | Producer |
| Editing | Don Zimmerman | Editor |
| Production | Charles Mulvehill | Producer |
| Production | Charles Mulvehill | Associate Producer |
| Art | Michael D. Haller | Production Design |
| Production | Lynn Stalmaster | Casting |
| Sound | Jeff Wexler | Sound Mixer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Frank Westmore | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Charles H. Schram | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Donald O. Mitchell | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Frank E. Warner | Supervising Sound Effects Editor |
| Lighting | Gary H. Holt | Gaffer |
| Directing | David Hamburger | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Toby Lovallo | Second Assistant Director |
| Art | Pablo Ferro | Title Designer |
| Camera | Nick McLean | Camera Operator |
| Costume & Make-Up | May Routh | Costume Designer |
| Art | Robert R. Benton | Set Decoration |
| Art | James L. Schoppe | Art Direction |
