Dick Cavett

Born: November 19, 1936 · Gibbon, Nebraska, USA

Actor
Writer
Producer

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 · 53 credits

2024Waltzing with Brando · Archive footage (Self) ★ 5.9
2024Group Therapy · Archive footage (Self) ★ 6.7
2023My Father Muhammad Ali · Archive footage (Self) ★ 6.1
2022The Lost Weekend: A Love Story · Archive footage (Self) ★ 7.5
2022Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind · Archive footage (Self) ★ 6.4
2022Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind · Self (Self) ★ 6.4
2022Watergate: High Crimes in the White House · Archive footage (Self) ★ 7.0
2021Boulevard! A Hollywood Story · Archive footage (Self) ★ 6.9
2021Dark Shadows and Beyond - The Jonathan Frid Story · Self (Self) ★ 8.3
2021The Adventures of Saul Bellow · Archive footage (Self) ★ 7.2
2021City of Ali · Self (Self) ★ 8.4
2020Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation · Archive footage (Self) ★ 7.2
2019Alan Pakula: Going for Truth · Self (Self) ★ 7.4
2018Jane Fonda in Five Acts · Archive footage (Self - Television Personality) ★ 7.9
2018The Great Buster · Archive footage (Self) ★ 7.5
2018Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes · Self (Self) ★ 7.2
2018Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes · Writer ★ 7.2
2017On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone · Self (Self) ★ 8.4
2016Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You · Archive footage (Self) ★ 7.3
2016The Marx Brothers: Hollywood's Kings of Chaos · Self (Self) ★ 6.9
2016Joan Rivers: Exit Laughing · Self (Self) ★ 7.7
2015Listen to Me Marlon · Self (Self) ★ 8.1
2015Listen to Me Marlon · Archive footage (Self) ★ 8.1
2015Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal · Self (Self - Talk Show Host) ★ 7.6
2014A Venue for the End of the World · Self (Self) ★ 6.5
2014The Book of Saunders · Self (Self)
2013Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley · Self (Self) ★ 7.9
2012Crossfire Hurricane · Archive footage (Self) ★ 7.4
2012Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay · Self (Self - Narrator) ★ 7.1
2012Driving Me Crazy: Proof of Concept · Actor (Mr. Johnson) ★ 6.0
2011Woody Allen · Self (Self)
2010Smash His Camera · Self (Self) ★ 6.9
2010Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child · Archive footage (Self) ★ 7.1
2010Norman Mailer: The American · Self (Self) ★ 6.9
2010Nixon's the One: The '68 Election · Actor (Narrator) ★ 5.4
2009Muppets 201: Rarities from the Henson Vault · Archive footage (Self)
2008The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg Deluxe Set · Self (Self) ★ 7.6
2007Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe · Archive footage (Self) ★ 7.0
2007Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer · Archive footage (Self) ★ 7.9
2007To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore · Self (Self) ★ 7.0
2005Inside Deep Throat · Self (Self) ★ 6.7
2005Duane Hopwood · Actor (Fred) ★ 6.5
2004Going Upriver · Archive footage (Self) ★ 7.7
2004Brian Williams Reports: John Kerry: Bringing the War Home · Archive footage (Self)
1996Good Money · Actor (Doug) ★ 7.5
1988After School · Actor (Dick Cavett) ★ 3.7
1988Funny · Self (Self) ★ 7.2
1982Koyaanisqatsi · Self (Self - On TV) ★ 8.2
1982Koyaanisqatsi · Archive footage (Self - On TV) ★ 8.2
1981Acting: Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio · Self (Self) ★ 6.6
1972The Rolling Stones: Cocksucker Blues · Self (Self) ★ 6.3
—I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War · Self (Self)
—The Last Days of Edward Gorey · Self (Self)