Being There (1979) | Full Cast

Hal Ashby

DIRECTOR

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 Franklin

Oteil Burbridge

Lolo

Ravenell Keller III

Abbaz

Brian Corrigan

Policeman by White House

Alfie Brown

Old Woman asked for lunch

Don Jacob

David

Ernest McClure

Jeffrey

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

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

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 Wells

Other Reporter

Paul Marin

Other Reporter

Melendy Britt

Sophie

Hanna Landy

Natasha Skrapinov

Elya Baskin

Karpatov

Than Wyenn

Ambassador Gaufridi

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)

Herbert Benkman

Dignitary(uncredited)

Basil Hoffman

Man in Commercial(uncredited)

Jerry Jensen

General(uncredited)

Alexandria Walsh

Court Reporter(uncredited)