Dick Cavett
Acting
- Born:
- 1936-11-19
- Place of birth:
- Gibbon, Nebraska, USA
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!
John Candy: I Like Me
The New Yorker at 100
NASA, Nazis and the Space Race
From Darkness to Light
One to One: John & Yoko
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
From Roger Moore with Love
Group Therapy
Jim Henson Idea Man
Remembering Gene Wilder
An American Family at 50
A Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy
Paul Newman: The Restless
Godard Cinema
Godard by Godard
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Groucho & Cavett
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Moonage Daydream
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
Lucy and Desi
My Guest is Orson Welles
Live at Mister Kelly's
The Capote Tapes
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
The Story of Late Night
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Mike Wallace Is Here
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
What's My Name | Muhammad Ali
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Nureyev
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
Bergman: A Year in a Life
This Is Bob Hope...
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Kyoko
On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Janis: Little Girl Blue
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Best of Enemies
Listen to Me Marlon
Dick Cavett's Vietnam
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
A Venue For The End Of The World
Dick Cavett's Watergate
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
Late Night with Seth Meyers
River of Fundament
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
David Bowie: Five Years
Excuse Me for Living
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Norman Mailer: The American
Driving Me Crazy
Woody Allen: A Documentary
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
Unforgettable
Smash His Camera
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Childrens Hospital
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Gossip Girl
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
Duane Hopwood
Frontier University Dreams
Inside Deep Throat
Celsius 41.11
Jack Paar: Smart Television
The Education of Gore Vidal
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
Behind the Seams
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson
Frequency
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising
Elvis Meets Nixon
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Forrest Gump
Barbarians at the Gate
Year of the Gun
The One, the Only... Groucho
The Fred Astaire Songbook
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
Night of 100 Stars III
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
The Simpsons
Moon Over Parador
After School
Funny
Beetlejuice
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Bye Bye Kipling
It's Garry Shandling's Show
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
Amazing Stories
Koyaanisqatsi
Cheers
Hotel
Yesteryear
The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett
Late Night with David Letterman
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
Dick Cavett Meets ABBA
Remember When
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Simon
Time Was
Remember Me
Power Play
Hocus Pocus, It's Magic
Annie Hall
Saturday Night Live
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
Dinah!
Janis
Jimi Hendrix
Nightside
Imagine
Cocksucker Blues
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Festival at Ford's
Fight of the Century
Alias Smith and Jones
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
The Odd Couple
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
This Is Tom Jones
The Dick Cavett Show
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Phil Donahue Show
ABC Stage 67
The Merv Griffin Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place
Kraft Music Hall
From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War