29. Peter Sellers as Chance the Gardener 
      Being There (1979)

Near the end of a career full of classic, over-the-top comedic roles, Sellers took his talents into the realm of the sublime and truly touching by playing Chance yardstick-straight. As the illiterate gardener whose pure and simple observations about caring for plants are taken as profound maxims for the ills of the modern age, Sellers embodies the fool-sage persona with an incomparable aura of innocence and a remarkable purity of spirit. Being There was a last look (let’s just forget about The Fiendish Plot of Dr. FuManchu) at an astonishingly gifted actor who at times appeared, like Chance, to walk on water.

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