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Being There

Year:
Duration:
130 min
Genres:
Comedy
IMDB rate:
8
Director:
Hal Ashby
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 15 wins & 11 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1979-12-19
Filming Locations: 937 M Street NW, Washington, DC, USA
Earnings
Gross: $30,177,511 (USA) Filming Dates 31 January 1979 - 9 April 1979 Copyright Holder Lorimar Film - und Fernsehproduktion GmbH Related Links
Cast
Actor
Character
David Clennon
David Clennon
Being There
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
Fran Brill
Sally Hayes
Denise DuBarry
Johanna Franklin
Oteil Burbridge
Lolo
Ravenell Keller III
Abbaz
Brian Corrigan
Policeman by White House
Alfie Brown
Old Woman asked for lunch (as Alfredine Brown)
Don Jacob
David (as Donald Jacob)
Ernest McClure
Jeffrey (as Ernest M. McClure)
Kenneth Patterson
Perkins
Richard Venture
Wilson
Arthur Grundy
Arthur
W.C. 'Mutt' Burton
Lewis
Henry B. Dawkins
Billings
Georgine Hall
Mrs. Aubrey
Nell P. Leaman
Constance
Villa Mae P. Barkley
Teresa
Alice Hirson
First Lady
James Noble
Kaufman
Timothy Shaner
Presidential Aide
William F. Williams
Presidential Aide
Bill Dance
Presidential Aide (as William Dance)
Jim Aar
Presidential Aide
William Lubin
Presidential Aide
Gerald C. McNabb Jr.
Woltz
Hoyt Clark Harris Jr.
Riff
Ned Wilson
Honeycutt
Stanley Grover
Baldwin
John Harkins
Courtney
Katherine De Hetre
Kinney (as Katherine DeHetre)
William Larsen
Lyman Stuart
Jerome Hellman
Gary Burns
Arthur Rosenberg
Morton Hull
Sam Weisman
Colson
Fredric Lehne
TV Page
Gwen Humble
TV Guest
Laurie Jefferson
TV Reporter
Allen Williams
Other Reporter
Janet Meshad
Other Reporter
Paul Marin
Other Reporter
Melendy Britt
Sophie
Hanna Hertelendy
Natasha Skrapinov
Than Wyenn
Ambassador Gaufridi (as Thann Wyenn)
Richard McKenzie
Ron Stiegler
Sandy Ward
Senator Slipshod
Danna Hansen
Mrs. Slipshod
Mitch Kreindel
Dennis Watson
Richard Seff
Pallbearer
Terrence Currier
Pallbearer
Leon Greenberg
Pallbearer
Austin Hay
Pallbearer
Mark Hammer
Pallbearer
Maurice Copeland
Pallbearer
Hal Ashby
Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)
Basil Hoffman
Man in Commercial (uncredited)
Jerry Jensen
General (uncredited)
Alexandria Walsh
Court Reporter (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
Peter Sellers patterned the voice for Chance the gardener after his idol, Stan Laurel.
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Finnish certificate # 88400 delivered on 31-7-1980.
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Henry B. Dawkins, who plays Billings the X-Ray Technician, really was an X-Ray technician. In the 1990s he became head of the Radiology Department at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College in Asheville, North Carolina, one of this film's shooting locations.
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Goofs
When Eve enters Chance's room as he is eating breakfast in bed, the napkin beneath his chin changes position back and forth between shots.
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When Chance is watching himself on the large screen in the store window display, he uses his home remote control to try and change the channels on that set, but it controls another TV instead. However the remote is of the earlier "ultrasonic" technology, and these sound waves DO NOT pass through glass at the required strength needed to work. Those of us born before the movie can recall that jiggling your keys would make a remote controlled TV unwittingly change channels, or turn off and on. At about this same time the now common "infrared" RCs were coming out, albeit at outrageous prices. These signals CAN in effect pass through glass, despite some losses due to reflection. For the scene to be technically correct they should have used an IR remote, which would not make those "ringing bell" metallic sounds.
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While at dinner for the first evening with Ben and Eve, Chauncey's wine glass fills and empties within seconds.
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Quotes
Doctor Allenby: This won't hurt a bit.
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Chance the Gardener: This is just like television, only you can see much further.
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President "Bobby": Life is a state of mind.
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Photos from cast
Elya Baskin David Clennon
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