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