Being There

Comedy, Drama

Peter Sellers	Chance
Shirley MacLaine	Eve Rand
Melvyn Douglas	Benjamin Rand
Jack Warden	President 'Bobby'
Richard Dysart	Dr. Robert Allenby
Richard Basehart	Vladimir Skrapinov
Ruth Attaway	Louise
David Clennon	Thomas Franklin
Fran Brill	Sally Hayes
Denise DuBarry	Johanna

Director	Hal Ashby
Producer	Andrew Braunsberg; Charles Mulvehill
Writer	Jerzy Kosinski

Chance, a simple gardener, has never left the estate until his employer dies. His simple TV-informed utterances are mistaken for profundity.