Dick Cavett
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 19 November 1936 · 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
Acting 132
- 2026I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War as Self
- 2026From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall as Self
- 2025John Candy: I Like Me as Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
- 2025The New Yorker at 100 as Self (archive footage)
- 2025NASA, Nazis and the Space Race as Self (archive footage)
- 2025From Darkness to Light as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2025One to One: John & Yoko as Self (archive footage)
- 2025SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) as Self
- 2024From Roger Moore with Love as Self
- 2024Group Therapy as Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
- 2024Jim Henson Idea Man as Self (archive footage)
- 2024Remembering Gene Wilder as Self (archive footage)
- 2024An American Family at 50 as Self
- 2023Paul Newman: The Restless as Self (archive footage)
- 2023Godard Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 2023Godard by Godard as Self (archive footage)
- 2023The Lost Weekend: A Love Story as Self (archive footage)
- 2022Groucho & Cavett as Self
- 20222022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony as Self (archive footage)
- 2022Moonage Daydream as Self (archive footage)
- 2022Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues as Self (archive footage)
- 2022The Ghost of Richard Harris as Self
- 2022Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue as Self (archive footage)
- 2022Lucy and Desi as Self (archive footage)
- 2021My Guest is Orson Welles
- 2021Live at Mister Kelly's as Self
- 2021The Capote Tapes as Self
- 2021Boulevard! A Hollywood Story as Self (archive footage)
- 2021Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
- 2019Alan Pakula: Going for Truth as Self
- 2019Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice as Self (archive footage)
- 2019Mike Wallace Is Here as (archive footage)
- 2019Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am as Self (archive footage)
- 2019What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael as Self
- 2019Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
- 2018Nureyev as Self, Archive Footage
- 2018Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes as Self
- 2018Bergman: A Year in a Life as Self
- 2017This Is Bob Hope... as Self
- 2017Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America as Self
- 2017Kyoko as Self (archive footage)
- 2017On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
- 2016All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone as Self
- 2015Janis: Little Girl Blue as Himself
- 2015Best of Enemies as Self
- 2015Listen to Me Marlon as Self (archive footage)
- 2015Dick Cavett's Vietnam
- 2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest · 1 episode
- 2014James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message as Self
- 2014A Venue For The End Of The World as Himself
- 2014Dick Cavett's Watergate as Himself
- 2014Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate as Self - Chat-Show Host
- 2014River of Fundament as Wake Guest
- 2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self · 1 episode
- 2013Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
- 2013Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia as Self (archive footage)
- 2013David Bowie: Five Years as Self (archive footage)
- 2012Excuse Me for Living as Reverend Pilatus
- 2012Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay as Narrator
- 2012Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel as Self (archive footage)
- 2012Norman Mailer: The American as Self
- 2012Driving Me Crazy as Mr. Johnson
- 2011Woody Allen: A Documentary as Self
- 2011Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again as Self
- 2010Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves as Self
- 2010Unforgettable as Self
- 2010Smash His Camera as Self
- 2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest · 1 episode
- 2008Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired as Self (archive footage)
- 2007To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore as Self
- 2007Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
- 2007Tension: Who's Guilty Now? as Self
- 2007Decoy: A Map to Nowhere as Self
- 2007Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe as Self (archive footage)
- 2006The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks as Self
- 2006Stardust: The Bette Davis Story as Self (archive footage)
- 2005Duane Hopwood
- 2005Frontier University Dreams as Narrator
- 2005Inside Deep Throat as Self
- 2004Celsius 41.11 as Self (archive footage)
- 2003Jack Paar: Smart Television as Self
- 2003The Education of Gore Vidal as Self (archive footage)
- 2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Guest · 1 episode
- 2001Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller as Self
- 2000Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy as Self (archive footage)
- 2000Behind the Seams as Detective
- 2000Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson as Narrator
- 2000Frequency as Himself
- 1999Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising as Narrator
- 1997Elvis Meets Nixon as Narrator
- 1994Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage as Self (archive footage)
- 1994Forrest Gump as Dick Cavett
- 1993Barbarians at the Gate as Self
- 1991Year of the Gun as Ben Gershon
- 1991The One, the Only... Groucho as Self
- 1991The Fred Astaire Songbook as Self (archive footage)
- 1990Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies as Self
- 1990Night of 100 Stars III as Self
- 1990Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous as Self
- 1989The Simpsons as Dick Cavett (voice) · 1 episode
- 1988Moon Over Parador as Self
- 1988After School as Himself
- 1988Funny as Self
- 1988Beetlejuice as Bernard
- 1987Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread as Dick Cavett
- 1987A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors as Dick Cavett
- 1986Bye Bye Kipling as Self
- 1986Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce as Self
- 1983Koyaanisqatsi as Self (archive footage)
- 1982The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett as Self
- 1982The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell as Self
- 1981Dick Cavett Meets ABBA as Host
- 1980HealtH as Dick Cavett
- 1980Simon as Himself
- 1979Remember Me as Narrator
- 1978Power Play as Dick Cavett
- 1978Hocus Pocus, It's Magic as Self - Host
- 1977Annie Hall as Dick Cavett
- 1975Funny Girl to Funny Lady as Self
- 1974Janis
- 1973Jimi Hendrix as Self (archive footage)
- 1973Nightside as Dick Cavett
- 1972Imagine as Self
- 1972Cocksucker Blues as Self
- 1972Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here as Self
- 1972Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Narrator (voice)
- 1971Festival at Ford's as Self
- 1971Fight of the Century as Self-(Audience Member)
- 1970Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles as Self
- 1969Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show as Self
- 1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self · 3 episodes
- 1960Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place
Writing 1
- 2018Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes · writer