type: 

COMEDY

DRAMA

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.

name	character
Ruth Attaway	Louise
Richard Basehart	Vladimir Skrapinov
Fran Brill	Sally Hayes
David Clennon	Thomas Franklin
Melvyn Douglas	Benjamin Rand
Denise DuBarry	Johanna Franklin
Richard Dysart	Dr. Robert Allenby
John Harkins	Sidney Courtney
Jerome Hellman	Gary Burns
Alice Hirson	First Lady
Shirley MacLaine	Eve Rand
James Noble	Kaufman
Peter Sellers	Chance
Jack Warden	President 'Bobby'

name
Hal Ashby	director
Andrew Braunsberg	producer
Robert C. Jones	screenplay
Jerzy Kosinski	writer (original), screenplay
Johnny Mandel	composer
Charles Mulvehill	producer

year	award	category	name
1979	Academy Award	Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Melvyn Douglas
1979	Golden Globe Award	Best Actor	Peter Sellers
1979	Golden Globe Award	Best Supporting Actor	Melvyn Douglas