Jerzy Kosinski - Turner Classic Movies

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Jerzy Kosinski worked on a variety of projects during his entertainment career. Kosinski worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "Being There" (1979) starring Peter Sellers. He went on to act in "The Statue of Liberty" (PBS, 1985-86). Later in his career, Kosinski acted in the Jonathan Penner comedy "Religion, Inc." (1989)....

Filmography

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Religion, Inc. (1989)

Lodz Ghetto (1988)

Voice Of Mordechai Rumkowski

Girgory Zinoviev

Being There (1979)

Being There (1979)

Source Material (From Novel)

The Statue of Liberty (1985)

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Being There (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Chauncey Gardiner

Being There (1979) -- (Movie Clip) The Old Man's Dead

Biography

Jerzy Kosinski worked on a variety of projects during his entertainment career. Kosinski worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "Being There" (1979) starring Peter Sellers. He went on to act in "The Statue of Liberty" (PBS, 1985-86). Later in his career, Kosinski acted in the Jonathan Penner comedy "Religion, Inc." (1989).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Religion, Inc. (1989)

Lodz Ghetto (1988)

Voice Of Mordechai Rumkowski

Girgory Zinoviev

Writer (Feature Film)

Being There (1979)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Being There (1979)

Source Material (From Novel)

Cast (Special)

The Statue of Liberty (1985)

Life Events

Videos

Being There (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Chauncey Gardiner Aimless gardener Chance (Peter Sellers) fascinated by a Washington, D.C. shop window TV display, meets well-to-do Eve (Shirley MacLaine) who surmises a name for him, in Hal Ashby's Being There, 1979.

Being There (1979) -- (Movie Clip) The Old Man's Dead From the credits, first scene for Chance (Peter Sellers), who scarcely notices Louise (Ruth Attaway), bearing news of their employer's sudden death, in director Hal Ashby's Being There, 1979.

Being There (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Growth Has Its Season Ailing magnate Ben (Melvyn Douglas), his friend the president (Jack Warden) visiting, brings idiot gardener Chance (Peter Sellers), now called "Chauncey" and considered wise, into conversation, in Being There, 1979, from Jerzy Kosinski's novella.

Being There (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Kind And Sensitive Man Eve Rand (Shirley MacLaine), upset by her zillionaire husband's illness, consoled by idiot Chance (Peter Sellers), now called "Chauncey" and newly famous as a counselor to the president, and taking a call from a financial editor (John Harkins) in Hal Ashby's Being There, 1979.

Being There (1979) -- (Movie Clip) That Room Upstairs Idiot Chance (Peter Sellers), now answering to "Chauncey," with ailing billionaire host Ben (Melvyn Douglas), wife Eve (Shirley MacLaine) and physician Allenby (Richard Dysart), who find him profound, in Hal Ashby's Being There, 1979.

Reds (1981) -- (Movie Clip) What Haven't We Covered? Portland, Oregon, 1915, a somewhat-contrived version of the meeting of the principals (writer-director Warren Beatty as journalist John "Jack" Reed, Diane Keaton as native Louise Bryant), M. Emmet Walsh the pompous orator at a local civic club, early in Reds, 1981.

Reds (1981) -- (Movie Clip) They Are Waiting For Your Example Moscow, 1917, writer-director Warren Beatty as American radical journalist John “Jack” Reed, with Diane Keaton as his colleague and wife Louise Bryant, swept into supporting a general strike, though not recreating a specific historic event, in Reds, 1981.

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