Being There (1979)

12/19/1979 2h 10m

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

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Overview

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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Cast Ages at Release

Peter Sellers

as Chance

Born 09/08/1925

Died 07/24/1980, age

Shirley MacLaine

as Eve Rand

Born 04/24/1934, age

Melvyn Douglas

as Benjamin Rand

Born 04/05/1901

Died 08/04/1981, age

Jack Warden

as President 'Bobby'

Born 09/18/1920

Died 07/19/2006, age

Richard Dysart

as Dr. Robert Allenby

Born 03/30/1929

Died 04/05/2015, age

Richard Basehart

as Vladimir Skrapinov

Born 08/13/1914

Died 09/17/1984, age

David Clennon

as Thomas Franklin

Born 05/10/1943, age

John Harkins

as Sidney Courtney

Born 09/07/1932

Died 03/05/1999, age

Elya Baskin

as Karpatov

Born 08/11/1950, age