Dick Cavett
ActingRichard 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
Forrest Gump
Dick Cavett
Frequency
Himself
Beetlejuice
Bernard
Annie Hall
Dick Cavett
Koyaanisqatsi
Self (archive footage)
One to One: John & Yoko
Self (archive footage)
John Candy: I Like Me
Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
Moonage Daydream
Self (archive footage)
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Self
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Dick Cavett
Filmography — Acting
Forrest Gump
Dick Cavett
Frequency
Himself
Beetlejuice
Bernard
Annie Hall
Dick Cavett
Koyaanisqatsi
Self (archive footage)
One to One: John & Yoko
Self (archive footage)
John Candy: I Like Me
Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
Moonage Daydream
Self (archive footage)
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Self
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Dick Cavett
Jim Henson Idea Man
Self (archive footage)
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self (archive footage)
Moon Over Parador
Self
Barbarians at the Gate
Self
Mike Wallace Is Here
(archive footage)
A Venue For The End Of The World
Himself
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Narrator (voice)
Lucy and Desi
Self (archive footage)
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Dick Cavett
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Self
Inside Deep Throat
Self
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Self
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Self (archive footage)
Listen to Me Marlon
Self (archive footage)
Simon
Himself
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Self
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Self (archive footage)
Godard Cinema
Self (archive footage)
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Self
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
Self (archive footage)
From Darkness to Light
Self (archive footage)
Year of the Gun
Ben Gershon
River of Fundament
Wake Guest
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Self (archive footage)
From Roger Moore with Love
Self
Group Therapy
Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Self (archive footage)
The New Yorker at 100
Self (archive footage)
Duane Hopwood
Power Play
Dick Cavett
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Self
Best of Enemies
Self
Excuse Me for Living
Reverend Pilatus
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Self
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Funny
Self
This Is Bob Hope...
Self
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
Self
Live at Mister Kelly's
Self
Elvis Meets Nixon
Narrator
Celsius 41.11
Self (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
Self
Unforgettable
Self
David Bowie: Five Years
Self (archive footage)
Festival at Ford's
Self
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Self (archive footage)
Behind the Seams
Detective
Godard by Godard
Self (archive footage)
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Self (archive footage)
Fight of the Century
Self-(Audience Member)
The Capote Tapes
Self
The Education of Gore Vidal
Self (archive footage)
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
Dick Cavett
Smash His Camera
Self
The One, the Only... Groucho
Self
Cocksucker Blues
Self
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Self (archive footage)
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
Self (archive footage)
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
Self
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Himself
Dick Cavett's Watergate
Himself
After School
Himself
Imagine
Self
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Self
Jack Paar: Smart Television
Self
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
Self
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Self (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix
Self (archive footage)
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
Self (archive footage)
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
Self
The Hiding Place
Norman Mailer: The American
Self
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
Self (archive footage)
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
Self
The Fred Astaire Songbook
Self (archive footage)
Groucho & Cavett
Self
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
Bye Bye Kipling
Self
Nightside
Dick Cavett
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
Self
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
Self
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
Self
Dick Cavett's Vietnam
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
Self
On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
Self - Chat-Show Host
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
Self
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Self
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
Self
Kyoko
Self (archive footage)
From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall
Self
Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller
Self
An American Family at 50
Self
Driving Me Crazy
Mr. Johnson
Nureyev
Self, Archive Footage
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson
Narrator
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising
Narrator
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
Self
The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett
Self
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
Self
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
Self
Hocus Pocus, It's Magic
Self - Host
Janis
Remember Me
Narrator
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
Self
Dick Cavett Meets ABBA
Host
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
Narrator
Frontier University Dreams
Narrator