Customize Results:
Male Female

Weight in lbs.


Height
ft   in

Age



Being There

[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]
Calorie Rating: 183
Released: 1979-12-19
MPAA Rating: PG
Running Time: 130 Minutes
Revenue 30177511
Studios: United Artists, Lorimar Film Entertainment, BSB, CIP, NatWest Ventures, New Gold Entertainment, Northstar Media,


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 / Directors

Hal Ashby
Director


Cast

Peter Sellers
Character: Chance
Shirley MacLaine
Character: Eve Rand
Melvyn Douglas
Character: Benjamin Rand

Jack Warden
Character: President 'Bobby'
Richard Dysart
Character: Dr. Robert Allenby
Richard Basehart
Character: Vladimir Skrapinov

Ruth Attaway
Character: Louise
David Clennon
Character: Thomas Franklin
Fran Brill
Character: Sally Hayes

Denise DuBarry
Character: Johanna Franklin
Alice Hirson
Character: First Lady
Jerome Hellman
Character: Gary Burns

John Harkins
Character: Sidney Courtney
James Noble
Character: Kaufman
Mitch Kreindel
Character: Dennis Watson

Oteil Burbridge
Character: Lolo
Richard Venture
Character: Wilson
Sam Weisman
Character: Colson

Elya Baskin
Character: Karpatov
Hal Ashby
Character: Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)


Production and Crew

Jack Schwartzman
Executive Producer
Johnny Mandel
Original Music Composer

Caleb Deschanel
Director of Photography


Charles Mulvehill
Associate Producer
May Routh
Costume Design
Michael D. Haller
Production Design

Jeff Wexler
Sound Mixer
Frank Westmore
Makeup Artist

Charles H. Schram
Makeup Artist
Donald O. Mitchell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Frank E. Warner
Supervising Sound Effects Editor