Dick Cavett
- Acting
- November 19, 1936 · 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! · Self
- John Candy: I Like Me · Self
- The New Yorker at 100 · Self
- NASA, Nazis and the Space Race · Self
- From Darkness to Light · Self
- One to One: John & Yoko · Self
- SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) · Self
- From Roger Moore with Love · Self
- Group Therapy · Self
- Jim Henson Idea Man · Self
- Remembering Gene Wilder · Self
- An American Family at 50 · Self
- A Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy · Self
- Paul Newman: The Restless · Self
- Godard Cinema · Self
- Godard by Godard · Self
- The Lost Weekend: A Love Story · Self
- Groucho & Cavett · Self
- 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony · Self
- Moonage Daydream · Self
- Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues · Self
- The Ghost of Richard Harris · Self
- Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue · Self
- Lucy and Desi · Self
- My Guest is Orson Welles
- Live at Mister Kelly's · Self
- The Capote Tapes · Self
- Boulevard! A Hollywood Story · Self
- Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation · Self
- 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything · Self
- The Story of Late Night · Self
- Alan Pakula: Going for Truth · Self
- Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice · Self
- Mike Wallace Is Here · (archive footage)
- Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am · Self
- What's My Name | Muhammad Ali · Self
- What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael · Self
- Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast · Self
- Nureyev · Self, Archive Footage
- Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes · Self, Writer
- Bergman: A Year in a Life · Self
- This Is Bob Hope... · Self
- Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America · Self
- Kyoko · Self
- 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 · Self
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Best of Enemies · Self
- Listen to Me Marlon · Self
- Dick Cavett's Vietnam
- James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message · Self
- A Venue For The End Of The World · Self
- Dick Cavett's Watergate · Self
- Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate · Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- River of Fundament · Wake Guest
- Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' · Self
- Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia · Self
- David Bowie: Five Years · Self
- Excuse Me for Living · Reverend Pilatus
- Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay · Narrator
- Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel · Self
- Norman Mailer: The American · Self
- Driving Me Crazy · Mr. Johnson
- Woody Allen: A Documentary · Self
- George Harrison: Living in the Material World · Self
- Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again · Self
- Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves · Self
- Unforgettable · Self
- Smash His Camera · Self
- Celebrity Ghost Stories · Self
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen · Self
- Childrens Hospital · Dick Cavett
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired · Self
- Gossip Girl · Self
- To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore · Self
- Tension: Who's Guilty Now? · Self
- Decoy: A Map to Nowhere · Self
- Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie