Dick Cavett
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.
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Acting History
2025
The New Yorker at 100 as Self (archive footage)
2025From Darkness to Light as Self (archive footage)
2025One to One: John & Yoko as Self (archive footage)
2025SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) as Self
2024From Roger Moore with Love as Self
2024Jim Henson Idea Man as Self (archive footage)
2023Godard Cinema as Self (archive footage)
2023Godard by Godard as Self (archive footage)
2023The Lost Weekend: A Love Story as Self (archive footage)
2022Groucho & Cavett as Self
20222022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony as Self (archive footage)
2022Moonage Daydream as Self (archive footage)
2022Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues as Self (archive footage)
2022The Ghost of Richard Harris as Self
2022Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue as Self (archive footage)
2022Lucy and Desi as Self (archive footage)
2021Live at Mister Kelly's as Self
2021The Capote Tapes as Self
2021Boulevard! A Hollywood Story as Self (archive footage)
2021Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
20211971: The Year That Music Changed Everything as Self (archive footage)
2021The Story of Late Night as Self
2019Alan Pakula: Going for Truth as Self
2019Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice as Self (archive footage)
2019Mike Wallace Is Here as (archive footage)
2019Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am as Self (archive footage)
2019What's My Name | Muhammad Ali as Self (archive footage)
2019What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael as Self
2019Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
2018Nureyev as Self, Archive Footage
2018Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes as Self
2018Bergman: A Year in a Life as Self
2017This Is Bob Hope... as Self
2017Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America as Self
2017Kyoko as Self (archive footage)
2017On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
2016All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone as Self
2015Janis: Little Girl Blue as Himself
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015Best of Enemies as Self
2015Listen to Me Marlon as Self (archive footage)
2015Dick Cavett's Vietnam
2014James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message as Self
2014A Venue For The End Of The World as Himself
2014Dick Cavett's Watergate as Himself
2014Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate as Self - Chat-Show Host
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014River of Fundament as Wake Guest
2013Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
2013Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia as Self (archive footage)
2013David Bowie: Five Years as Self (archive footage)
2012Excuse Me for Living as Reverend Pilatus
2012Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay as Narrator
2012Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel as Self (archive footage)
2012Norman Mailer: The American as Self
2012Driving Me Crazy as Mr. Johnson
2011Woody Allen: A Documentary as Self
2011George Harrison: Living in the Material World as Self (archive footage)
2011Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again as Self
2010Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves as Self
2010Unforgettable as Self
2010Smash His Camera as Self
2009Celebrity Ghost Stories as Self
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2008Childrens Hospital as Dick Cavett
2008Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired as Self (archive footage)
2007Gossip Girl as Self
2007To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore as Himself
2007Decoy: A Map to Nowhere as Self
2007Tension: Who's Guilty Now? as Self
2007Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
2007Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe as Self (archive footage)
2006The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks as Self
2005Duane Hopwood
2005Frontier University Dreams as Narrator
2005Inside Deep Throat as Self
2004Celsius 41.11 as Self (archive footage)
2003Jack Paar: Smart Television as Self
2003The Education of Gore Vidal as Self (archive footage)
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2001Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller as Self
2000Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy as Self (archive footage)
2000Behind the Seams as Detective
2000Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson as Narrator
1999Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising as Narrator
1997Elvis Meets Nixon as Narrator
1994Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage as Self (archive footage)
1994Forrest Gump as Dick Cavett
1993Barbarians at the Gate as Self
1991Year of the Gun as Ben Gershon
1991The One, the Only... Groucho as Self
1991The Fred Astaire Songbook as Self (archive footage)
1990Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies as Self
1990Night of 100 Stars III as Self
1990Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous as Self
1989The Simpsons as Dick Cavett (voice)
1988Moon Over Parador as Self
1988After School as Himself
1988Funny as Self
1988Beetlejuice as Bernard
1987Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread as Dick Cavett
1987A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors as Dick Cavett
1986It's Garry Shandling's Show as Self (archive footage) (audio) (uncredited)
1986Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce as Self
1986Bye Bye Kipling as Self
1985Amazing Stories as Dick Cavett
1982Cheers as Himself
1982Hotel
1982Yesteryear as Self - Host
1982The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett as Self
1982The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell as Self
1981Dick Cavett Meets ABBA as Host
1981Remember When as Self - Host
1980HealtH as Dick Cavett
1980Simon as Himself
1979Time Was as Self - Host
1979Remember Me as Narrator
1978Power Play as Dick Cavett
1978Hocus Pocus, It's Magic as Self - Host
1977Annie Hall as Dick Cavett
1975Saturday Night Live as Self (uncredited)
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1975Funny Girl to Funny Lady as Self
1974Dinah! as Self
1974Janis
1973Jimi Hendrix as Self (archive footage)
1973Nightside as Dick Cavett
1972Imagine as Self
1972Cocksucker Blues as Self
1972Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here as Self
1972Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Narrator (voice)
1971Festival at Ford's as Self
1971Fight of the Century as Self-(Audience Member)
1971Alias Smith and Jones
1970Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles as Self
1970The Odd Couple as Dick Cavett
1969Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show as Self
1969This Is Tom Jones as Self
1968The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Host
1968Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In as Self
1967The Phil Donahue Show as Self
1966ABC Stage 67 as Self - Host
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
1962The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1960The Hiding Place
1958Kraft Music Hall as Self
—From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall as Self
—I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War as Self