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