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