Dick Cavett
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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
Credits
Forrest Gump (1994)
as Dick Cavett
Beetlejuice (1988)
as Bernard
Frequency (2000)
as Himself
Annie Hall (1977)
as Dick Cavett
John Candy: I Like Me (2025)
as Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
Inside Deep Throat (2005)
as Self
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
as Dick Cavett
Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
as Self (archive footage)
Woody Allen: A Documentary (2011)
as Self
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (2021)
as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Jim Henson Idea Man (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
Moonage Daydream (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Barbarians at the Gate (1993)
as Self
Moon Over Parador (1988)
as Self
One to One: John & Yoko (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019)
as Self
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) (2025)
as Self
The New Yorker at 100 (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Night of 100 Stars III (1990)
as Self
Group Therapy (2024)
as Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast (2019)
as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Lucy and Desi (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
From Darkness to Light (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Power Play (1978)
as Dick Cavett
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage (1994)
as Self (archive footage)
Best of Enemies (2015)
as Self
After School (1988)
as Himself
Imagine (1972)
as Self
Groucho & Cavett (2022)
as Self
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
Simon (1980)
as Himself
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
as Narrator (voice)
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
River of Fundament (2014)
as Wake Guest
Year of the Gun (1991)
as Ben Gershon
Bergman: A Year in a Life (2018)
as Self
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth (2019)
as Self
David Bowie: Five Years (2013)
as Self (archive footage)
Remembering Gene Wilder (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
Mike Wallace Is Here (2019)
as (archive footage)
An American Family at 50 (2024)
as Self
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
From Roger Moore with Love (2024)
as Self
HealtH (1980)
as Dick Cavett
Duane Hopwood (2005)
Actor
This Is Bob Hope... (2017)
as Self
Elvis Meets Nixon (1997)
as Narrator
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016)
as Self
Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015)
as Himself
Excuse Me for Living (2012)
as Reverend Pilatus
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy (2000)
as Self (archive footage)
Paul Newman: The Restless (2023)
as Self
Fight of the Century (1971)
as Self-(Audience Member)
The Education of Gore Vidal (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
Unforgettable (2010)
as Self
Jimi Hendrix (1973)
as Self (archive footage)
Cocksucker Blues (1972)
as Self
The Capote Tapes (2021)
as Self
Smash His Camera (2010)
as Self
Godard Cinema (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Nightside (1973)
as Dick Cavett
Jack Paar: Smart Television (2003)
as Self
Godard by Godard (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Festival at Ford's (1971)
as Self
Kyoko (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
The Ghost of Richard Harris (2022)
as Self
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread (1987)
as Dick Cavett
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' (2013)
as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013)
as Self (archive footage)
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore (2007)
as Self
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message (2014)
as Self
The One, the Only... Groucho (1991)
as Self
Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place (1960)
Actor
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)
as Self (archive footage)
Behind the Seams (2000)
as Detective
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here (1972)
as Self
Live at Mister Kelly's (2021)
as Self
Listen to Me Marlon (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
Celsius 41.11 (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
Funny (1988)
as Self
Norman Mailer: The American (2012)
as Self
The Fred Astaire Songbook (1991)
as Self (archive footage)
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles (1970)
as Self
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Dick Cavett's Watergate (2014)
as Himself
Nureyev (2018)
as Self, Archive Footage
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes (2018)
as Self
From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall (—)
as Self
Driving Me Crazy (2012)
as Mr. Johnson
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce (1986)
as Self
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell (1982)
as Self
Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller (2001)
as Self
Funny Girl to Funny Lady (1975)
as Self
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again (2011)
as Self
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War (—)
as Self
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
A Venue For The End Of The World (2014)
as Himself
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America (2017)
as Self
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate (2014)
as Self - Chat-Show Host
Dick Cavett Meets ABBA (1981)
as Host
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks (2006)
as Self
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies (1990)
as Self
Bye Bye Kipling (1986)
as Self
On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone (2017)
Actor
Hocus Pocus, It's Magic (1978)
as Self - Host
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show (1969)
as Self
Janis (1974)
Actor
Remember Me (1979)
as Narrator
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous (1990)
as Self
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson (2000)
as Narrator
Frontier University Dreams (2005)
as Narrator
Tension: Who's Guilty Now? (2007)
as Self
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising (1999)
as Narrator
Dick Cavett's Vietnam (2015)
Actor
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves (2010)
as Self
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie (2007)
Actor
The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett (1982)
as Self
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2012)
as Narrator
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere (2007)
as Self