Being There

Synopsis

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.

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Cast

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

Fran Brill

Sally Hayes

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Denise DuBarry

Johanna Franklin

Alice Hirson

First Lady

Jerome Hellman

Gary Burns

John Harkins

Sidney Courtney

James Noble

Kaufman

Mitch Kreindel

Dennis Watson

Oteil Burbridge

Lolo

Richard Venture

Wilson

Sam Weisman

Colson

Elya Baskin

Karpatov

Hal Ashby

Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)

Crew

Art

• Michael D. Haller Production Design
• Pablo Ferro Title Designer
• Robert R. Benton Set Decoration
• James L. Schoppe Art Direction

Camera

• Caleb Deschanel Director of Photography
• Nick McLean Camera Operator

Costume & Make-Up

• Frank Westmore Makeup Artist
• Charles H. Schram Makeup Artist
• May Routh Costume Designer

Directing

• Hal Ashby Director
• David Hamburger First Assistant Director
• Toby Lovallo Second Assistant Director

Editing

• Don Zimmerman Editor

Lighting

• Gary H. Holt Gaffer

Production

• Charles Mulvehill Producer
• Jack Schwartzman Executive Producer
• Andrew Braunsberg Producer
• Lynn Stalmaster Casting
• Charles Mulvehill Associate Producer

Sound

• Johnny Mandel Original Music Composer
• Jeff Wexler Sound Mixer
• Frank E. Warner Supervising Sound Effects Editor
• Donald O. Mitchell Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Writing

• Jerzy Kosiński Screenplay
• Jerzy Kosiński Novel

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