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Being There

76 %|Dec 19, 1979|Comedy, Drama

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.

Featured Crew

Jack Schwartzman
Executive Producer
Hal Ashby
Director
Jerzy Kosiński
Novel
Johnny Mandel
Original Music Composer
Caleb Deschanel
Director of Photography
Jerzy Kosiński
Screenplay
Robert C. Jones
Screenplay
Andrew Braunsberg
Producer

Cast

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Melvyn Douglas
Benjamin Rand
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Jack Warden
President 'Bobby'
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Richard Dysart
Dr. Robert Allenby
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Richard Basehart
Vladimir Skrapinov
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David Clennon
Thomas Franklin
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Fran Brill
Sally Hayes
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Denise DuBarry
Johanna Franklin
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Alice Hirson
First Lady
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Jerome Hellman
Gary Burns
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John Harkins
Sidney Courtney
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Mitch Kreindel
Dennis Watson
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Elya Baskin
Karpatov
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Hal Ashby
Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)