Dick Cavett
Acting
Born 1936-11-19 · Gibbon, Nebraska, USA
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
Forrest Gump
1994 · Movie
Beetlejuice
1988 · Movie
Frequency
2000 · Movie
Annie Hall
1977 · Movie
Koyaanisqatsi
1983 · Movie
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024 · Movie
Inside Deep Throat
2005 · Movie
The One, the Only... Groucho
1991 · Movie
John Candy: I Like Me
2025 · Movie
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987 · Movie
Nightside
1973 · Movie
Behind the Seams
2000 · Movie
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
1982 · Movie
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022 · Movie
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994 · Movie
One to One: John & Yoko
2025 · Movie
Moonage Daydream
2022 · Movie
This Is Bob Hope...
2017 · Movie
Group Therapy
2024 · Movie
Listen to Me Marlon
2015 · Movie
Funny
1988 · Movie
The Education of Gore Vidal
2003 · Movie
Barbarians at the Gate
1993 · Movie
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011 · Movie
From Roger Moore with Love
2024 · Movie
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018 · Movie
Best of Enemies
2015 · Movie
Jack Paar: Smart Television
2003 · Movie
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013 · Movie
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
2019 · Movie
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972 · Movie
Godard by Godard
2023 · Movie
Jimi Hendrix
1973 · Movie
Power Play
1978 · Movie
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013 · Movie
Lucy and Desi
2022 · Movie
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
2014 · Movie
Elvis Meets Nixon
1997 · Movie
David Bowie: Five Years
2013 · Movie
Moon Over Parador
1988 · Movie
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022 · Movie
Remember Me
1979 · Movie
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025 · Movie
The New Yorker at 100
2025 · Movie
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
2011 · Movie
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2019 · Movie
Smash His Camera
2010 · Movie
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015 · Movie
Simon
1980 · Movie
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022 · Movie
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019 · Movie
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
1969 · Movie
Imagine
1972 · Movie
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
2012 · Movie
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016 · Movie
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019 · Movie
Nureyev
2018 · Movie
Duane Hopwood
2005 · Movie
Groucho & Cavett
2022 · Movie
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019 · Movie