Being There
(1979)

Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!

Released: 1979-12-19

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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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Melvyn Douglas

as Benjamin Rand

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Jack Warden

as President 'Bobby'

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Richard Dysart

as Dr. Robert Allenby

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Richard Basehart

as Vladimir Skrapinov

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David Clennon

as Thomas Franklin

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Fran Brill

as Sally Hayes

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Denise DuBarry

as Johanna Franklin

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Alice Hirson

as First Lady

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Jerome Hellman

as Gary Burns

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John Harkins

as Sidney Courtney

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James Noble

as Kaufman

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Elya Baskin

as Karpatov

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Hal Ashby

as Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)

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Jack Schwartzman

Executive Producer

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Johnny Mandel

Original Music Composer

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Caleb Deschanel

Director of Photography

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Charles Mulvehill

Associate Producer

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May Routh

Costume Design

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Jeff Wexler

Sound Mixer

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Frank Westmore

Makeup Artist

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Donald O. Mitchell

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

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Frank E. Warner

Supervising Sound Effects Editor

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