Dick Cavett
Acting
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.
As actor 158
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Simpsons
1989
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
Saturday Night Live
1975
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Gossip Girl
2007
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
Cheers
1982
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Forrest Gump
1994
Hotel
1982
Childrens Hospital
2008
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
The Odd Couple
1970
Dinah!
1974
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
Amazing Stories
1985
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
Beetlejuice
1988
ABC Stage 67
1966
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Kraft Music Hall
1958
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
2026
The Phil Donahue Show
1967
Frequency
2000
It's Garry Shandling's Show
1986
Annie Hall
1977
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
2021
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
2011
Inside Deep Throat
2005
Groucho & Cavett
2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
What's My Name | Muhammad Ali
2019
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987
Koyaanisqatsi
1983
The Story of Late Night
2021
This Is Tom Jones
1969
Year of the Gun
1991
Moonage Daydream
2022
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025
Godard Cinema
2023
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
One to One: John & Yoko
2025
From Darkness to Light
2025
Lucy and Desi
2022
Best of Enemies
2015
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008
Imagine
1972
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019
Remember When
1981
The New Yorker at 100
2025
Moon Over Parador
1988
Group Therapy
2024
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
Barbarians at the Gate
1993
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
Paul Newman: The Restless
2023
Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place
1960
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
From Roger Moore with Love
2024
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
2021
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
1975
Godard by Godard
2023
Power Play
1978
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013
River of Fundament
2014
HealtH
1980
Kyoko
2017
Simon
1980
The One, the Only... Groucho
1991
This Is Bob Hope...
2017
Yesteryear
1982
Smash His Camera
2010
Nureyev
2018
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
2019
The Education of Gore Vidal
2003
Duane Hopwood
2005
Jack Paar: Smart Television
2003
Elvis Meets Nixon
1997
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015
Jimi Hendrix
1973
An American Family at 50
2024
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
1987
Listen to Me Marlon
2015
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
2007
Dick Cavett's Watergate
2014
Live at Mister Kelly's
2021
The Capote Tapes
2021
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
2000
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2019
On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
2017
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
2006
The Fred Astaire Songbook
1991
Excuse Me for Living
2012
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013
Nightside
1973
Celsius 41.11
2004
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972
Driving Me Crazy
2012
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
2007
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
2012
Dick Cavett Meets ABBA
1981
Cocksucker Blues
1972
David Bowie: Five Years
2013
Unforgettable
2010
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
2018
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
2014
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
1986
Remember Me
1979
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
1982
Fight of the Century
1971
Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller
2001
Time Was
1979
Dick Cavett's Vietnam
2015
Norman Mailer: The American
2012
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
2022
Hocus Pocus, It's Magic
1978
After School
1988
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
2007
Festival at Ford's
1971
My Guest is Orson Welles
2021
Behind the Seams
2000
Bye Bye Kipling
1986
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
2011
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
1970
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
2007
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson
2000
The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett
1982
From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
1969
Funny
1988
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
2007
Frontier University Dreams
2005
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
2014
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
2006
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
1990
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
2010
A Venue For The End Of The World
2014
Janis
1974
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising
1999
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
2012