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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. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a

guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman.

Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben,

and an unlikely political insider.[IMDB]



Directed by

Hal Ashby



Writing credits

Jerzy Kosinski (novel)





Jerzy Kosinski (screenplay)





Robert C. Jones uncredited





Cast (in credits order) verified as complete



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 (as Dave Clennon)

Fran Brill ... Sally Hayes



Denise DuBarry ... Johanna

Oteil Burbridge ... Lolo

Ravenell Keller III ... Abbaz

Brian Corrigan ... Policeman

Alfredine P. Brown ... Old Woman (as Alfredine Brown)

Donald Jacob ... David

Ernest McClure ... Jeffrey (as Ernest M. McClure)

Kenneth Patterson ... Perkins

Richard Venture ... Wilson

Arthur Grundy ... Arthur

W.C. 'Mutt' Burton ... Lewis

Henry B. Dawkins ... Billings

Georgine Hall ... Mrs. Aubrey

Nell P. Leaman ... Constance

Villa Mae P. Barkley ... Teresa

Alice Hirson ... First Lady



James Noble ... Kaufman

Timothy Shaner ... Presidential Aide

William F. Williams ... Presidential Aide

William Dance ... Presidential Aide

Jim Aar ... Presidential Aide

William Lubin ... Presidential Aide

Gerald C. McNabb Jr. ... Woltz

Hoyt Clark Harris Jr. ... Riff

Ned Wilson ... Honeycutt

Stanley Grover ... Baldwin

John Harkins ... Courtney

Katherine De Hetre ... Kinney (as Katherine DeHetre)

William Larsen ... Lyman Stuart

Jerome Hellman ... Gary Burns

Arthur Rosenberg ... Morton Hull

Sam Weisman ... Colson



Fredric Lehne ... TV Page



Gwen Humble ... Annie Lawson

Laurie Jefferson ... TV Reporter

Allen Williams ... Other Reporter

Janet Meshad ... Other Reporter



Paul Marin ... Other Reporter

Melendy Britt ... Sophie

Hanna Hertelendy ... Natasha Skrapinov



Elya Baskin ... Karpatov

Than Wyenn ... Ambassador Gaufridi (as Thann Wyenn)

Richard McKenzie ... Ron Stiegler

Sandy Ward ... Senator Slipshod

Danna Hansen ... Mrs. Slipshod

Mitch Kreindel ... Dennis Watson

Richard Seff ... Pallbearer



Terrence Currier ... Pallbearer

Leon Greenberg ... Pallbearer

Austin Hay ... Pallbearer

Mark Hammer ... Pallbearer

Maurice Copeland ... Pallbearer

rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Hal Ashby ... Man at file cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)



Basil Hoffman ... Man in Commercial (uncredited)

Jerry Jensen ... General (uncredited)

Alexandria Walsh ... Court reporter (uncredited)