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Being There (1979)

Language: English.

Directed by Hal Ashby

Cast
  • Peter Sellers as Chance
  • Shirley MacLaine as Eve Rand
  • Melvyn Douglas as Benjamin Rand
  • Jack Warden as President 'Bobby'
  • Richard Dysart as Dr. Robert Allenby
  • Richard Basehart as Vladimir Skrapinov
  • Ruth Attaway as Louise
  • David Clennon as Thomas Franklin
  • Fran Brill as Sally Hayes
  • Denise DuBarry as Johanna Franklin
  • Alice Hirson as First Lady
  • Jerome Hellman as Gary Burns
  • John Harkins as Sidney Courtney
  • James Noble as Kaufman
  • Mitch Kreindel as Dennis Watson
  • Oteil Burbridge as Lolo
  • Richard Venture as Wilson
  • Sam Weisman as Colson
  • Ilya Baskin as Karpatov
  • Hal Ashby as Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)
  • Kenneth Patterson as Perkins
  • Stanley Grover as Baldwin
Crew
  • Hal Ashby — Director
  • Jerzy Kosiński — Screenplay
  • Jerzy Kosiński — Novel
  • Robert C. Jones — Screenplay
  • Andrew Braunsberg — Producer
  • Charles Mulvehill — Producer
  • Jack Schwartzman — Executive Producer
  • Johnny Mandel — Original Music Composer
  • Caleb Deschanel — Director of Photography
  • Don Zimmerman — Editor
  • Michael D. Haller — Production Design
  • May Routh — Costume Design
  • Charles Mulvehill — Associate Producer
  • Lynn Stalmaster — Casting
  • Jeff Wexler — Sound Mixer
  • Charles H. Schram — Makeup Artist
  • Frank Westmore — Makeup Artist
  • Donald O. Mitchell — Sound Re-Recording Mixer
  • Frank E. Warner — Supervising Sound Effects Editor