Dick Cavett
Known for: Acting
Born: November 19, 1936
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 Ma…
Known for
From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall
The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett
1982
The Capote Tapes
2021
A Venue For The End Of The World
2014
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
Groucho & Cavett
2022
Bye Bye Kipling
1986
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
2006
Dick Cavett's Watergate
2014
Frontier University Dreams
2005
Remember Me
1979
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
2018
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
2014
Dick Cavett's Vietnam
2015
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising
1999
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson
2000
Dick Cavett Meets ABBA
1981
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
1986
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
2012
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
2007
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
2014
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
2011
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
1969
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
1975
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
2022
Hocus Pocus, It's Magic
1978
Norman Mailer: The American
2012
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
2007
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017
The Education of Gore Vidal
2003
Jack Paar: Smart Television
2003
The One, the Only... Groucho
1991
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
2010
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
2007
Paul Newman: The Restless
2023
Godard Cinema
2023
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972
After School
1988
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
1990
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
1970
This Is Bob Hope...
2017
Unforgettable
2010
Festival at Ford's
1971
Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller
2001
Koyaanisqatsi
1983
Smash His Camera
2010
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
2007
Moonage Daydream
2022
Best of Enemies
2015
Imagine
1972
Janis
1974
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
2007
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
2021
One to One: John & Yoko
2025
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
Godard by Godard
2023
Driving Me Crazy
2012
Jimi Hendrix
1973
On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
2017
Listen to Me Marlon
2015
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
Cocksucker Blues
1972
Live at Mister Kelly's
2021
Funny
1988
David Bowie: Five Years
2013
Nightside
1973
An American Family at 50
2024
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
1982
HealtH
1980
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013
Beetlejuice
1988
Celsius 41.11
2004
Behind the Seams
2000
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2019
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
2012
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
2000
Fight of the Century
1971
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
1987
Kyoko
2017
Excuse Me for Living
2012
The Fred Astaire Songbook
1991
Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place
1960
Simon
1980
Inside Deep Throat
2005
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
Duane Hopwood
2005
Lucy and Desi
2022
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
2019
Power Play
1978
From Darkness to Light
2025
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023
Moon Over Parador
1988
From Roger Moore with Love
2024
Night of 100 Stars III
1990
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
Group Therapy
2024
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024
Year of the Gun
1991
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019
Nureyev
2018
The New Yorker at 100
2025
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
2006
River of Fundament
2014
Annie Hall
1977
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013
Barbarians at the Gate
1993
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019
Frequency
2000
Elvis Meets Nixon
1997
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022
Forrest Gump
1994
Cheers
1982
The Simpsons
1989
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
The Odd Couple
1970
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
Hotel
1982
Gossip Girl
2007
Time Was
1979
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
The Story of Late Night
2021
ABC Stage 67
1966
This Is Tom Jones
1969
Saturday Night Live
1975
Amazing Stories
1985
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Childrens Hospital
2008
Dinah!
1974
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Phil Donahue Show
1967
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
2021
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
What's My Name | Muhammad Ali
2019
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Remember When
1981
Yesteryear
1982
Kraft Music Hall
1958
It's Garry Shandling's Show
1986
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
2011
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
2026
Late Night with David Letterman
1982