Known For
Acting
Born
Nov 19, 1936
Place of Birth
Gibbon, Nebraska, USA
Credits
158 titles
Dick Cavett
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
Filmography
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
Self - Talk Show Host
John Candy: I Like Me
Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
The New Yorker at 100
Self (archive footage)
From Darkness to Light
Self (archive footage)
One to One: John & Yoko
Self (archive footage)
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Self
From Roger Moore with Love
Self
Group Therapy
Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
Jim Henson Idea Man
Self (archive footage)
Remembering Gene Wilder
Self (archive footage)
An American Family at 50
Self
Paul Newman: The Restless
Self
Godard Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Godard by Godard
Self (archive footage)
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Self (archive footage)
Groucho & Cavett
Self
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self (archive footage)
Moonage Daydream
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Self (archive footage)
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Self
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
Self (archive footage)
Lucy and Desi
Self (archive footage)
My Guest is Orson Welles
Live at Mister Kelly's
Self
The Capote Tapes
Self
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
Self (archive footage)
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
Self - TV Host (archive footage)
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
Self (archive footage)
The Story of Late Night
Self
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Self
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Self (archive footage)
Mike Wallace Is Here
(archive footage)
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Self (archive footage)
What's My Name | Muhammad Ali
Self (archive footage)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Self
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Nureyev
Self, Archive Footage
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
Self
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Self
This Is Bob Hope...
Self
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Self
Kyoko
Self (archive footage)
On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Self
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Himself
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
Best of Enemies
Self
Listen to Me Marlon
Self (archive footage)
Dick Cavett's Vietnam
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
Self