Dick Cavett
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.
154 acting credits
Acting · 154
The Simpsons
1989
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Saturday Night Live
1975
Gossip Girl
2007
Cheers
1982
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Forrest Gump
1994
Hotel
1982
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
The Odd Couple
1970
Childrens Hospital
2008
Amazing Stories
1985
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
Dinah!
1974
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
Kraft Music Hall
1958
It's Garry Shandling's Show
1986
Beetlejuice
1988
ABC Stage 67
1966
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
2021
Annie Hall
1977
The Phil Donahue Show
1967
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
2011
Frequency
2000
Inside Deep Throat
2005
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987
Koyaanisqatsi
1983
The Story of Late Night
2021
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
2026
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022
This Is Tom Jones
1969
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024
What's My Name | Muhammad Ali
2019
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025
One to One: John & Yoko
2025
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
Barbarians at the Gate
1993
Yesteryear
1982
Power Play
1978
Moonage Daydream
2022
Simon
1980
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018
Year of the Gun
1991
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
Moon Over Parador
1988
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
Best of Enemies
2015
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019
Remember When
1981
The New Yorker at 100
2025
From Roger Moore with Love
2024
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
2021
HealtH
1980
Group Therapy
2024
Smash His Camera
2010
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
Jack Paar: Smart Television
2003
The Capote Tapes
2021
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
1986
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
1982
Duane Hopwood
2005
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972
After School
1988
Listen to Me Marlon
2015
This Is Bob Hope...
2017
Cocksucker Blues
1972
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
2007
Lucy and Desi
2022
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
2019
From Darkness to Light
2025
David Bowie: Five Years
2013
Godard Cinema
2023
Unforgettable
2010
The One, the Only... Groucho
1991
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
2022
Jimi Hendrix
1973
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2019
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017
Imagine
1972
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
2000
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
1970
River of Fundament
2014
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
2014
Elvis Meets Nixon
1997
Norman Mailer: The American
2012
Funny
1988
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015
Godard by Godard
2023
The Education of Gore Vidal
2003
Excuse Me for Living
2012
Driving Me Crazy
2012
Fight of the Century
1971
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
1990
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
2007
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
1987
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
2012
The Fred Astaire Songbook
1991
Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place
1960
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
1969
Behind the Seams
2000
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
1975
Live at Mister Kelly's
2021
Nureyev
2018
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990
Janis
1974
Time Was
1979
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
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Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
2018
Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller
2001
Celsius 41.11
2004
Groucho & Cavett
2022
From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall
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Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
2011
Dick Cavett Meets ABBA
1981
Kyoko
2017
Festival at Ford's
1971
Nightside
1973
The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett
1982
On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
2017
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
2014
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
2012
An American Family at 50
2024
Dick Cavett's Watergate
2014
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
2010
Hocus Pocus, It's Magic
1978
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
2007
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
2007
Bye Bye Kipling
1986
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
2006
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising
1999
Frontier University Dreams
2005
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson
2000
Dick Cavett's Vietnam
2015
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
2007
Remember Me
1979
A Venue For The End Of The World
2014