"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."
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
Ilya Baskin
as Karpatov
Hal Ashby
as Man at File Cabinet at the Washington Post (uncredited)
Kenneth Patterson
as Perkins
Stanley Grover
as Baldwin
Jack Schwartzman
Executive Producer
Director
Jerzy Kosiński
Novel
Johnny Mandel
Original Music Composer
Caleb Deschanel
Director of Photography
Screenplay
Robert C. Jones
Andrew Braunsberg
Producer
Don Zimmerman
Editor
Charles Mulvehill
Associate Producer
May Routh
Costume Design
Michael D. Haller
Production Design
Lynn Stalmaster
Casting
Jeff Wexler
Sound Mixer
Frank Westmore
Makeup Artist
Charles H. Schram
Donald O. Mitchell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Frank E. Warner
Supervising Sound Effects Editor