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Dick Cavett
Actor, WriterBorn November 19, 1936 (88 years)
Richard Alva Cavett 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.
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.
Filmography
| 2025 | Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print · as Self |
| 2025 | Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything · as Self - Talk Show Host |
| 2025 | Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius) · as Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show |
| 2024 | One to One: John & Yoko · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2024 | From Darkness to Light · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2024 | From Roger Moore with Love · as Self |
| 2024 | Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes · as Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show |
| 2024 | Garbo: Where Did You Go? · as Self |
| 2024 | |
| 2024 | Faye · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2024 | Brats · as Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show |
| 2024 | Group Therapy · as Self |
| 2024 | Jim Henson: Idea Man · as Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show |
| 2023 | Restless: Being Paul Newman · as Self |
| 2023 | Remembering Gene Wilder · as Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show |
| 2023 | Being Mary Tyler Moore · as Self |
| 2023 | Call Me Kate · as Self |
| 2022 | Godard Cinema · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | Groucho & Cavett · as Self |
| 2022 | Sr. · as Self |
| 2022 | The 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | Moonage Daydream · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | The Ghost of Richard Harris · as Self |
| 2022 | Joni Mitchell - Lady Blue · as Self |
| 2022 | The Lost Weekend: A Love Story · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind · as Self |
| 2022 | George Carlin's American Dream (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2022 | Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood · as Self |
| 2022 | Lucy and Desi · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | Citizen Ashe · as Self |
| 2021 | King of Cool · as Self - Tv Host |
| 2021 | Becoming Cousteau · as Self |
| 2021 | Julia · as Self |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | The Beatles and India · as Self |
| 2021 | Live at Mister Kelly's · as Self |
| 2021 | Boulevard! A Hollywood Story · as Self |
| 2021 | Superstar (2021) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2021 | The Adventures of Saul Bellow · as Self |
| 2021 | City of Ali · as Self |
| 2021 | 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | The Story of Late Night (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2021 | Fanny: The Right to Rock · as Self |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | Twyla Moves · as Self |
| 2020 | Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation · as Self - Tv Host (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | Tiny Tim: King for a Day · as Self |
| 2020 | Visible: Out on Television (TV Series) · as Self (tv Host) |
| 2019 | Billie · as Self |
| 2019 | David Crosby: Remember My Name · as Self |
| 2019 | Alan Pakula: Going for Truth · as Self |
| 2019 | The Capote Tapes · as Self |
| 2019 | Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | Hitchcock Confidential · as Self |
| 2019 | Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2019 | What's My Name: Muhammad Ali · as Self |
| 2019 | What's My Name: Muhammad Ali (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | Bergman – ett liv i fyra akter (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2018 | John & Yoko: Above Us Only Sky · as Self |
| 2018 | They'll Love Me When I'm Dead · as Self |
| 2018 | The Great Buster · as Self |
| 2018 | Jane Fonda in Five Acts · as Self - Television Personality |
| 2018 | Nureyev: Lifting the Curtain · as Self, Archive Footage |
| 2018 | Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast · as Self - Tv Host (archive Footage) |
| 2018 | |
| 2018 | Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes · as Self |
| 2018 | Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind · as Self |
| 2018 | Bergman: A Year in a Life · as Self |
| 2017 | This Is Bob Hope... · as Self |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | Kyoko · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | The History of Comedy (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2016 | I Am Not Your Negro · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2016 | |
| 2016 | |
| 2016 | Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown · as Self |
| 2016 | |
| 2016 | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2016 | Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You · as Self |
| 2015 | Janis: Little Girl Blue · as Himself |
| 2015 | Everything Is Copy · as Self |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2015 | Listen to Me Marlon · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2015 | Best of Enemies · as Self |
| 2015 | The Seventies (2015) (TV Series) · as Self - Host, 'the Dick Cavett Show' |
| 2014 | Pawn Sacrifice · as Self |
| 2014 | Altman · as Self |
| 2014 | A Venue for the End of the World · as Himself |
| 2014 | Dick Cavett's Watergate · as Himself |
| 2014 | The Sixties (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | Park Bench (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | The Case of the Three Sided Dream · as Self |
| 2014 | Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate · as Self - Chat-Show Host |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2013 | Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' · as Self - Tv Host (archive Footage) |
| 2013 | Tom Green Live (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2013 | Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2013 | David Bowie: Five Years · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2013 | Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley · as Self |
| 2012 | Crossfire Hurricane · as Self |
| 2012 | Larry King Now (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2012 | Woody Allen: A Documentary · as Self |
| 2011 | George Harrison: Living in the Material World (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2011 | Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey · as Self |
| 2011 | |
| 2011 | Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2011 | |
| 2011 | Bobby Fischer Against the World · as Self |
| 2011 | Cinema Verite · as Self |
| 2011 | The Harmony Game · as Self |
| 2010 | Norman Mailer: The American · as Self |
| 2010 | Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child · as Self |
| 2010 | Smash His Camera · as Self |
| 2010 | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy · as Self |
| 2009 | Talk Stoop (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2009 | Bored to Death (TV Series) · as Dick Cavett |
| 2009 | Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel · as Self - Tv Talk Show Host |
| 2009 | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2009 | Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2009 | Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America (TV Series) · as Self - Talk Show Host |
| 2008 | Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2008 | Childrens Hospital (TV Series) · as Dick Cavett |
| 2008 | Celebrity Ghost Stories (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2008 | |
| 2008 | Shine a Light · as Self |
| 2008 | |
| 2008 | Pioneers of Television (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2007 | Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2007 | Gossip Girl (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2007 | |
| 2007 | Brando · as Self |
| 2007 | Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer · as Self |
| 2006 | The U.S. vs. John Lennon · as Self |
| 2006 | Stardust: The Bette Davis Story · as Self |
| 2006 | Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer · as Self |
| 2005 | Inside Deep Throat · as Self |
| 2005 | Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood · as Self |
| 2005 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2004 | Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain... Begins to Die · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2004 | Going Upriver · as Self |
| 2004 | Tavis Smiley (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2002 | Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show · as Self |
| 2001 | The 55th Annual Tony Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 2000 | |
| 1999 | SportsCentury (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1995 | The History of Rock 'n' Roll (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | Extra (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | Forrest Gump · as Dick Cavett |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1993 | Barbarians at the Gate · as Self |
| 1993 | |
| 1993 | Mo' Funny: Black Comedy in America · as Self |
| 1992 | Dateline NBC (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1992 | Room for Two (TV Series) · as Dick Cavett |
| 1991 | The One, the Only... Groucho · as Self |
| 1991 | Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1990 | The Howard Stern Channel 9 Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1990 | Night of 100 Stars III · as Self |
| 1990 | Crosby, Stills & Nash: Long Time Comin' · as Self |
| 1989 | True Blue (TV Series) · as Dick Cavett |
| 1989 | Pat Sajak Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1988 | Imagine: John Lennon · as Self |
| 1988 | After School · as Himself |
| 1988 | Moon Over Parador · as Self |
| 1988 | 48 Hours (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1987 | Biography (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1987 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors · as Dick Cavett |
| 1986 | The New Hollywood Squares (TV Series) · as Self - Panelist |
| 1986 | It's Garry Shandling's Show (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) (audio) (uncredited) |
| 1986 | |
| 1985 | American Masters (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1985 | Amazing Stories (1985) (TV Series) · as Dick Cavett |
| 1985 | The $100,000 Pyramid (TV Series) · as Self - Celebrity Contestant |
| 1985 | Television Parts (TV Series) · as Dick Cavett |
| 1985 | Larry King Live (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1984 | Super Password (TV Series) · as Self - Celebrity Contestant |
| 1984 | Kate & Allie (TV Series) · as Dick Cavett |
| 1983 | Newton's Apple (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1983 | The 35th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards · as Self - Presenter |
| 1983 | Wheel of Fortune (TV Series) · as Self - Special Guest |
| 1982 | Cheers (TV Series) · as Himself |
| 1982 | Koyaanisqatsi · as Self - On Tv |
| 1982 | The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell · as Self |
| 1982 | Late Night With David Letterman (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1981 | Rich and Famous · as Dick Cavett |
| 1981 | An Evening At the Improv (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 1980 | HealtH · as Dick Cavett |
| 1980 | Simon · as Himself |
| 1979 | CBS Sunday Morning With Jane Pauley (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1978 | Power Play · as Dick Cavett |
| 1977 | The Hollywood Greats (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1977 | Annie Hall · as Dick Cavett |
| 1976 | Live from Lincoln Center (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 1975 | Funny Girl to Funny Lady · as Self |
| 1975 | Good Morning America (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1974 | Dinah! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1974 | The $25,000 Pyramid (1982) (TV Series) · as Self - Celebrity Contestant |
| 1973 | Jimi Hendrix · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1973 | AFI Life Achievement Award (TV Series) · as Self - Audience Member |
| 1973 | The $10,000 Pyramid (TV Series) · as Self - Celebrity Contestant |
| 1972 | Imagine · as Self |
| 1972 | Cocksucker Blues · as Self |
| 1971 | Parkinson (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1971 | Fight of the Century · as Self-(audience Member) |
| 1970 | Most Deadly Game (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1970 | The Odd Couple (TV Series) · as Dick Cavett |
| 1970 | Dinah's Place (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1970 | All My Children (TV Series) · as Dick Cavett |
| 1969 | This is Tom Jones (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1968 | That Show with Joan Rivers (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1968 | What's My Line? (1968) (TV Series) · as Self - Mystery Guest |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 1967 | The Phil Donahue Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1967 | Kraft Music Hall (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1967 | The Carol Burnett Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1967 | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1966 | ABC Stage 67 (TV Series) · as Self - Host |
| 1965 | The Dean Martin Show (TV Series) · as Self - Cameo |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1956 | To Tell the Truth (TV Series) · as Self - Guest Panelist |
| 1952 | Guiding Light (TV Series) · as Dick Cavett |
| 1950 | What's My Line? (TV Series) · as Self - Panelist |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) · as Self |