Being There (1979) Cast & Crew

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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
• Elya Baskin as Karpatov
• Hal Ashby as Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)
• Kenneth Patterson as Perkins
• Stanley Grover as Baldwin

Crew

• Charles Mulvehill — Producer
• Johnny Mandel — Original Music Composer
• Jerzy Kosiński — Screenplay
• Hal Ashby — Director
• Jerzy Kosiński — Novel
• Caleb Deschanel — Director of Photography
• Andrew Braunsberg — Producer

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