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Dick Cavett

Dick Cavett

Known for
Acting
Born
Nov 19, 1936 (age 89)
Place of birth
Gibbon, Nebraska, USA
Credits
160

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

MovieRated 8.5

Forrest Gump

1994Movie

Dick Cavett

TVRated 8.0

The Simpsons

1989TV

Dick Cavett (voice)

MovieRated 7.4

Beetlejuice

1988Movie

Bernard

MovieRated 7.7

Annie Hall

1977Movie

Dick Cavett

TVRated 8.1

Gossip Girl

2007TV

Self

MovieRated 6.7

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

1987Movie

Dick Cavett

Filmography

TVRated 7.8

Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!

2026TV

Self - Talk Show Host

MovieRated 7.8

John Candy: I Like Me

2025Movie

Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.0

The New Yorker at 100

2025Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 5.5

NASA, Nazis and the Space Race

2025Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 6.7

From Darkness to Light

2025Movie

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

MovieRated 7.1

One to One: John & Yoko

2025Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.1

SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

2025Movie

Self

MovieRated 8.0

From Roger Moore with Love

2024Movie

Self

MovieRated 7.8

Group Therapy

2024Movie

Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.8

Jim Henson Idea Man

2024Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.3

Remembering Gene Wilder

2024Movie

Self (archive footage)

Movie

An American Family at 50

2024Movie

Self

MovieRated 7.5

A Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy

2024Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.5

Paul Newman: The Restless

2023Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 5.6

Godard Cinema

2023Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.2

Godard by Godard

2023Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.0

The Lost Weekend: A Love Story

2023Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.0

Groucho & Cavett

2022Movie

Self

MovieRated 8.2

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

2022Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.4

Moonage Daydream

2022Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 6.7

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

2022Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.5

The Ghost of Richard Harris

2022Movie

Self

MovieRated 8.0

Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue

2022Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.1

Lucy and Desi

2022Movie

Self (archive footage)

Movie

My Guest is Orson Welles

2021Movie

Movie

Live at Mister Kelly's

2021Movie

Self

MovieRated 5.9

The Capote Tapes

2021Movie

Self

MovieRated 6.2

Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

2021Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 2.5

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

2021Movie

Self - TV Host (archive footage)

TVRated 7.5

1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything

2021TV

Self (archive footage)

TVRated 5.7

The Story of Late Night

2021TV

Self

MovieRated 6.5

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

2019Movie

Self

MovieRated 7.6

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

2019Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 6.5

Mike Wallace Is Here

2019Movie

(archive footage)

MovieRated 7.6

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

2019Movie

Self (archive footage)

TVRated 7.4

What's My Name | Muhammad Ali

2019TV

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 6.7

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

2019Movie

Self

MovieRated 5.3

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

2019Movie

Self - TV Host (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.3

Nureyev

2018Movie

Self, Archive Footage

MovieRated 7.2

Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes

2018Movie

Self

MovieRated 7.4

Bergman: A Year in a Life

2018Movie

Self

MovieRated 7.7

This Is Bob Hope...

2017Movie

Self

MovieRated 6.0

Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America

2017Movie

Self

MovieRated 6.0

Kyoko

2017Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.0

On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone

2017Movie

MovieRated 7.4

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

2016Movie

Self

MovieRated 7.3

Janis: Little Girl Blue

2015Movie

Himself

TVRated 6.1

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015TV

Self - Guest

MovieRated 7.2

Best of Enemies

2015Movie

Self

MovieRated 7.5

Listen to Me Marlon

2015Movie

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

MovieRated 7.0

Dick Cavett's Vietnam

2015Movie

MovieRated 8.0

James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message

2014Movie

Self

MovieRated 6.0

A Venue For The End Of The World

2014Movie

Himself

MovieRated 7.0

Dick Cavett's Watergate

2014Movie

Himself

MovieRated 6.5

Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate

2014Movie

Self - Chat-Show Host

TVRated 5.1

Late Night with Seth Meyers

2014TV

Self

MovieRated 6.0

River of Fundament

2014Movie

Wake Guest

MovieRated 7.4

Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'

2013Movie

Self - TV Host (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.6

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

2013Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.5

David Bowie: Five Years

2013Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 4.0

Excuse Me for Living

2012Movie

Reverend Pilatus

MovieRated 7.0

Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay

2012Movie

Narrator

MovieRated 7.0

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel

2012Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.0

Norman Mailer: The American

2012Movie

Self

Movie

Driving Me Crazy

2012Movie

Mr. Johnson

MovieRated 6.9

Woody Allen: A Documentary

2011Movie

Self

TVRated 7.5

George Harrison: Living in the Material World

2011TV

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 7.9

Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again

2011Movie

Self

Movie

Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves

2010Movie

Self

MovieRated 5.0

Unforgettable

2010Movie

Self

MovieRated 6.9

Smash His Camera

2010Movie

Self

TVRated 7.3

Celebrity Ghost Stories

2009TV

Self

TVRated 5.0

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009TV

Self - Guest

TVRated 7.0

Childrens Hospital

2008TV

Dick Cavett

MovieRated 6.3

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

2008Movie

Self (archive footage)

TVRated 8.1

Gossip Girl

2007TV

Self

MovieRated 4.0

To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore

2007Movie

Self

Movie

Tension: Who's Guilty Now?

2007Movie

Self

Movie

Decoy: A Map to Nowhere

2007Movie

Self

Movie

Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie

2007Movie

MovieRated 5.0

Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe

2007Movie

Self (archive footage)

Movie

The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks

2006Movie

Self

MovieRated 6.6

Stardust: The Bette Davis Story

2006Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 5.9

Duane Hopwood

2005Movie

Movie

Frontier University Dreams

2005Movie

Narrator

MovieRated 6.4

Inside Deep Throat

2005Movie

Self

MovieRated 5.5

Celsius 41.11

2004Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 8.0

Jack Paar: Smart Television

2003Movie

Self

MovieRated 8.7

The Education of Gore Vidal

2003Movie

Self (archive footage)

TVRated 5.3

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2003TV

Self - Guest

Movie

Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller

2001Movie

Self

MovieRated 7.0

Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy

2000Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 10.0

Behind the Seams

2000Movie

Detective

Movie

Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson

2000Movie

Narrator

MovieRated 7.3

Frequency

2000Movie

Himself

MovieRated 10.0

Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising

1999Movie

Narrator

MovieRated 7.0

Elvis Meets Nixon

1997Movie

Narrator

MovieRated 9.0

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

1994Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 8.5

Forrest Gump

1994Movie

Dick Cavett

MovieRated 6.9

Barbarians at the Gate

1993Movie

Self

MovieRated 4.9

Year of the Gun

1991Movie

Ben Gershon

MovieRated 10.0

The One, the Only... Groucho

1991Movie

Self

Movie

The Fred Astaire Songbook

1991Movie

Self (archive footage)

Movie

Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies

1990Movie

Self

MovieRated 4.3

Night of 100 Stars III

1990Movie

Self

Movie

Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous

1990Movie

Self

TVRated 8.0

The Simpsons

1989TV

Dick Cavett (voice)

MovieRated 5.9

Moon Over Parador

1988Movie

Self

MovieRated 3.0

After School

1988Movie

Himself

MovieRated 8.0

Funny

1988Movie

Self

MovieRated 7.4

Beetlejuice

1988Movie

Bernard

MovieRated 6.5

Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread

1987Movie

Dick Cavett

MovieRated 6.7

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

1987Movie

Dick Cavett

Movie

Bye Bye Kipling

1986Movie

Self

TVRated 7.1

It's Garry Shandling's Show

1986TV

Self (archive footage) (audio) (uncredited)

MovieRated 6.3

Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce

1986Movie

Self

TVRated 7.5

Amazing Stories

1985TV

Dick Cavett

MovieRated 7.9

Koyaanisqatsi

1983Movie

Self (archive footage)

TVRated 7.6

Cheers

1982TV

Himself

TVRated 6.8

Hotel

1982TV

TV

Yesteryear

1982TV

Self - Host

Movie

The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett

1982Movie

Self

TVRated 6.1

Late Night with David Letterman

1982TV

Self - Guest

MovieRated 9.0

The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell

1982Movie

Self

Movie

Dick Cavett Meets ABBA

1981Movie

Host

TV

Remember When

1981TV

Self - Host

MovieRated 5.4

HealtH

1980Movie

Dick Cavett

MovieRated 6.3

Simon

1980Movie

Himself

TV

Time Was

1979TV

Self - Host

MovieRated 8.0

Remember Me

1979Movie

Narrator

MovieRated 7.2

Power Play

1978Movie

Dick Cavett

Movie

Hocus Pocus, It's Magic

1978Movie

Self - Host

MovieRated 7.7

Annie Hall

1977Movie

Dick Cavett

TVRated 6.9

Saturday Night Live

1975TV

Self (uncredited), Self - Host

MovieRated 6.0

Funny Girl to Funny Lady

1975Movie

Self

TVRated 7.0

Dinah!

1974TV

Self

MovieRated 7.6

Janis

1974Movie

MovieRated 7.7

Jimi Hendrix

1973Movie

Self (archive footage)

MovieRated 10.0

Nightside

1973Movie

Dick Cavett

MovieRated 7.1

Imagine

1972Movie

Self

MovieRated 5.8

Cocksucker Blues

1972Movie

Self

MovieRated 6.0

Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

1972Movie

Self

MovieRated 7.4

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1972Movie

Narrator (voice)

Movie

Festival at Ford's

1971Movie

Self

Movie

Fight of the Century

1971Movie

Self-(Audience Member)

TVRated 7.0

Alias Smith and Jones

1971TV

Movie

Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles

1970Movie

Self

TVRated 7.8

The Odd Couple

1970TV

Dick Cavett

MovieRated 8.0

Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show

1969Movie

Self

TVRated 6.7

This Is Tom Jones

1969TV

Self

TVRated 6.8

The Dick Cavett Show

1968TV

Self - Host

TVRated 6.8

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

1968TV

Self

TV

The Phil Donahue Show

1967TV

Self

TVRated 6.8

ABC Stage 67

1966TV

Self - Host

TVRated 6.8

The Merv Griffin Show

1962TV

Self

TVRated 7.6

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962TV

Self

Movie

Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place

1960Movie

TVRated 5.4

Kraft Music Hall

1958TV

Self

Coming soon

I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War

Movie

Self

Coming soon

From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall

Movie

Self

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