Being There [10322] Released: 1979-12-19 Revenue: $30,177,511 Budget: $0 Profit: $30,177,511 Runtime: 130 mins Popularity: 1.3371 Vote Average: 7.624 Vote Count: 1,022 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. Cast [22] Peter SellersChance Shirley MacLaineEve Rand Melvyn DouglasBenjamin Rand Jack WardenPresident 'Bobby Richard DysartDr. Robert Allen Richard BasehartVladimir Skrapin Ruth AttawayLouise David ClennonThomas Franklin Fran BrillSally Hayes Denise DuBarryJohanna Franklin Alice HirsonFirst Lady Jerome HellmanGary Burns John HarkinsSidney Courtney James NobleKaufman Mitch KreindelDennis Watson Oteil BurbridgeLolo Richard VentureWilson Sam WeismanColson Ilya BaskinKarpatov Hal AshbyMan at File Cabi Kenneth PattersonPerkins Stanley GroverBaldwin Trailers Hal Ashby on making BEING THERE Being There (1979) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p] Anatomy of a Gag: BEING THERE Alan Spencer on BEING THERE Being There - Original Theatrical Trailer