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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 19, 1936
Place of Birth
Gibbon, Nebraska, USA
Also Known As
- Richard Alva Cavett
Dick Cavett
0.5 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.8
Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
7.0
Self (archive footage)
The New Yorker at 100
2025
6.7
Self (archive footage)
From Darkness to Light
2025
7.1
Self (archive footage)
One to One: John & Yoko
2025
6.9
Self
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025
7.8
Self
From Roger Moore with Love
2024
7.8
Self (archive footage)
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024
5.5
Self (archive footage)
Godard Cinema
2023
7.8
Self (archive footage)
Godard by Godard
2023
6.0
Self (archive footage)
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023
Credits
John Candy: I Like Me
as Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
2025
7.8
The New Yorker at 100
as Self (archive footage)
2025
7.0
From Darkness to Light
as Self (archive footage)
2025
6.7
One to One: John & Yoko
as Self (archive footage)
2025
7.1
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
as Self
2025
6.9
From Roger Moore with Love
as Self
2024
7.8
Jim Henson Idea Man
as Self (archive footage)
2024
7.8
Godard Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
2023
5.5
Godard by Godard
as Self (archive footage)
2023
7.8
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
as Self (archive footage)
2023
6.0
Groucho & Cavett
as Self
2022
7.0
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self (archive footage)
2022
8.2
Moonage Daydream
as Self (archive footage)
2022
7.5
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (archive footage)
2022
6.7
The Ghost of Richard Harris
as Self
2022
7.5
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
as Self (archive footage)
2022
0.0
Lucy and Desi
as Self (archive footage)
2022
7.1
Live at Mister Kelly's
as Self
2021
0.0
The Capote Tapes
as Self
2021
5.9
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
as Self (archive footage)
2021
6.2
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
2021
2.5
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
as Self (archive footage)
2021
7.7
The Story of Late Night
as Self
2021
6.6
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
as Self
2019
6.5
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
as Self (archive footage)
2019
7.6
Mike Wallace Is Here
as (archive footage)
2019
6.5
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
as Self (archive footage)
2019
7.5
What's My Name | Muhammad Ali
as Self (archive footage)
2019
7.3
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
as Self
2019
6.7
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
2019
4.6
Nureyev
as Self, Archive Footage
2018
7.3
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
as Self
2018
7.2
Bergman: A Year in a Life
as Self
2018
7.4
This Is Bob Hope...
as Self
2017
8.0
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
as Self
2017
6.0
Kyoko
as Self (archive footage)
2017
6.0
On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
2017
0.0
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
as Self
2016
7.6
Janis: Little Girl Blue
as Himself
2015
7.3
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
Best of Enemies
as Self
2015
7.2
Listen to Me Marlon
as Self (archive footage)
2015
7.5
Dick Cavett's Vietnam
2015
7.0
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
as Self
2014
8.0
A Venue For The End Of The World
as Himself
2014
6.0
Dick Cavett's Watergate
as Himself
2014
7.0
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
as Self - Chat-Show Host
2014
6.5
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
River of Fundament
as Wake Guest
2014
5.9
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
2013
7.5
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
as Self (archive footage)
2013
7.8
David Bowie: Five Years
as Self (archive footage)
2013
7.5
Excuse Me for Living
as Reverend Pilatus
2012
4.3
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
as Narrator
2012
6.9
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
as Self (archive footage)
2012
7.0
Norman Mailer: The American
as Self
2012
7.0
Driving Me Crazy
as Mr. Johnson
2012
0.0
Woody Allen: A Documentary
as Self
2011
6.8
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
as Self (archive footage)
2011
7.5
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
as Self
2011
7.9
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
as Self
2010
0.0
Unforgettable
as Self
2010
5.0
Smash His Camera
as Self
2010
6.9
Celebrity Ghost Stories
as Self
2009
7.3
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Childrens Hospital
as Dick Cavett
2008
7.1
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
as Self (archive footage)
2008
6.3
Gossip Girl
as Self
2007
8.2
🎬
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
as Himself
2007
4.0
🎬
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
as Self
2007
0.0
🎬
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
2007
0.0
🎬
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
as Self
2007
0.0
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
as Self (archive footage)
2007
4.8
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
as Self
2006
0.0
Duane Hopwood
2005
5.6
Frontier University Dreams
as Narrator
2005
0.0
Inside Deep Throat
as Self
2005
6.4
Celsius 41.11
as Self (archive footage)
2004
5.0
Jack Paar: Smart Television
as Self
2003
0.0
The Education of Gore Vidal
as Self (archive footage)
2003
6.0
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller
as Self
2001
0.0
🎬
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
as Self (archive footage)
2000
0.0
Behind the Seams
as Detective
2000
0.0
🎬
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson
as Narrator
2000
0.0
🎬
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising
as Narrator
1999
0.0
Elvis Meets Nixon
as Narrator
1997
7.0
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Self (archive footage)
1994
0.0
Forrest Gump
as Dick Cavett
1994
8.5
Barbarians at the Gate
as Self
1993
6.8
Year of the Gun
as Ben Gershon
1991
4.9
The One, the Only... Groucho
as Self
1991
0.0
The Fred Astaire Songbook
as Self (archive footage)
1991
0.0
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
as Self
1990
0.0
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
1990
4.0
🎬
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
as Self
1990
0.0
The Simpsons
as Dick Cavett (voice)
1989
8.0
Moon Over Parador
as Self
1988
5.8
After School
as Himself
1988
2.1
Funny
as Self
1988
0.0
Beetlejuice
as Bernard
1988
7.4
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
as Dick Cavett
1987
6.4
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
as Dick Cavett
1987
6.7
It's Garry Shandling's Show
as Self (archive footage) (audio) (uncredited)
1986
7.2
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
as Self
1986
6.0
🎬
Bye Bye Kipling
as Self
1986
0.0
Amazing Stories
as Dick Cavett
1985
7.4
Cheers
as Himself
1982
7.6
Hotel
1982
6.8
Yesteryear
as Self - Host
1982
0.0
The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett
as Self
1982
0.0
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
as Self
1982
0.0
Dick Cavett Meets ABBA
as Host
1981
0.0
Remember When
as Self - Host
1981
0.0
HealtH
as Dick Cavett
1980
5.2
Simon
as Himself
1980
6.2
Time Was
as Self - Host
1979
0.0
Remember Me
as Narrator
1979
0.0
Power Play
as Dick Cavett
1978
7.0
🎬
Hocus Pocus, It's Magic
as Self - Host
1978
0.0
Annie Hall
as Dick Cavett
1977
7.7
Saturday Night Live
as Self (uncredited)
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
as Self
1975
2.0
Dinah!
as Self
1974
6.7
Janis
1974
7.4
Jimi Hendrix
as Self (archive footage)
1973
7.7
Nightside
as Dick Cavett
1973
0.0
Imagine
as Self
1972
7.0
Cocksucker Blues
as Self
1972
5.8
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
as Self
1972
6.0
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Narrator (voice)
1972
6.0
🎬
Festival at Ford's
as Self
1971
0.0
Fight of the Century
as Self-(Audience Member)
1971
0.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
7.0
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
as Self
1970
0.0
The Odd Couple
as Dick Cavett
1970
7.8
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
as Self
1969
0.0
This Is Tom Jones
as Self
1969
6.0
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Host
1968
6.8
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
as Self
1968
6.6
The Phil Donahue Show
as Self
1967
0.0
ABC Stage 67
as Self - Host
1966
6.2
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
1962
7.5
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
The Hiding Place
1960
0.0
Kraft Music Hall
as Self
1958
4.7
🎬
From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall
as Self
N/A
0.0
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
as Self
N/A
0.0