Dick Cavett
Department: Acting
Biography
Richard Alva Cavett (born November 19, 1936) is an American television personality and former talk show host. He appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States for five decades, from the 1960s through the 2000s. In later years, Cavett has written an online column for The New York Times, promoted DVDs of his former shows as well as a book of his Times columns, and hosted replays of his TV interviews with Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, Salvador Dalí, Lee Marvin, Groucho Marx, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Marlon Brando, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Mitchum, John Lennon, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Kirk Douglas and others on Turner Classic Movies.
Known For
Annie Hall
1977
From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018
Cocksucker Blues
1972
Live at Mister Kelly's
2021
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
1986
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023
Godard Cinema
2023
Moon Over Parador
1988
Funny
1988
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
David Bowie: Five Years
2013
HealtH
1980
Smash His Camera
2010
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
1982
Norman Mailer: The American
2012
Lucy and Desi
2022
The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett
1982
The Capote Tapes
2021
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
2012
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
2007
Godard by Godard
2023
After School
1988
River of Fundament
2014
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
2007
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
2007
A Venue For The End Of The World
2014
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
2014
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
Moonage Daydream
2022
Beetlejuice
1988
Elvis Meets Nixon
1997
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
Behind the Seams
2000
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
2011
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2019
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019
Best of Enemies
2015
Driving Me Crazy
2012
Groucho & Cavett
2022
Forrest Gump
1994
Jimi Hendrix
1973
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
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Duane Hopwood
2005
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
1990
Bye Bye Kipling
1986
On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
2017
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
2006
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
1970
Fight of the Century
1971
Listen to Me Marlon
2015
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
1987
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
1969
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
Dick Cavett's Watergate
2014
Frontier University Dreams
2005
Simon
1980
This Is Bob Hope...
2017
Remember Me
1979
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
2018
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
2014
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017
Imagine
1972
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
1975
Inside Deep Throat
2005
The Education of Gore Vidal
2003
Nureyev
2018
Jack Paar: Smart Television
2003
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
2019
Kyoko
2017
The One, the Only... Groucho
1991
Dick Cavett's Vietnam
2015
Janis
1974
Excuse Me for Living
2012
Year of the Gun
1991
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising
1999
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
2010
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
2007
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson
2000
The Fred Astaire Songbook
1991
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
2012
Celsius 41.11
2004
Barbarians at the Gate
1993
Nightside
1973
Power Play
1978
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
2007
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
2021
Unforgettable
2010
Festival at Ford's
1971
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
2022
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
From Roger Moore with Love
2024
Dick Cavett Meets ABBA
1981
One to One: John & Yoko
2025
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
2000
From Darkness to Light
2025
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025
Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller
2001
The Hiding Place
1960
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021
Hocus Pocus, It's Magic
1978
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024
The New Yorker at 100
2025
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
An American Family at 50
2024
Frequency
2000
Koyaanisqatsi
1983
Group Therapy
2024
Cheers
1982
The Simpsons
1989
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Odd Couple
1970
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Hotel
1982
Gossip Girl
2007
Time Was
1979
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
The Story of Late Night
2021
ABC Stage 67
1966
This Is Tom Jones
1969
Saturday Night Live
1975
Amazing Stories
1985
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Childrens Hospital
2008
Dinah!
1974
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Phil Donahue Show
1967
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
2021
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
What's My Name | Muhammad Ali
2019
Saturday Night Live
1975
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Remember When
1981
Yesteryear
1982
Kraft Music Hall
1958
It's Garry Shandling's Show
1986
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
2011
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
2026
Late Night with David Letterman
1982