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Being There

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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Being There

December 19, 1979
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Cast (22)

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

Crew (19)

Directing

Hal Ashby
Director

Writing

Production

Jack Schwartzman
Executive Producer
Charles Mulvehill
Associate Producer

Sound

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

Art

Michael D. Haller
Production Design

Camera

Caleb Deschanel
Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

May Routh
Costume Design
Frank Westmore
Makeup Artist
Charles H. Schram
Makeup Artist

Crew

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Editing

Lighting

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Visual Effects

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