Dick Cavett
Acting • Born 1936-11-19
Biography
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
152 credits
Annie Hall
Movie • 1977
Dick Cavett
From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall
Movie
Self
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Movie • 1987
Dick Cavett
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Movie • 2018
Self
Cocksucker Blues
Movie • 1972
Self
Live at Mister Kelly's
Movie • 2021
Self
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
Movie • 1986
Self
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Godard Cinema
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Moon Over Parador
Movie • 1988
Self
Funny
Movie • 1988
Self
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
Movie • 1972
Self
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Movie • 2011
Self
David Bowie: Five Years
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)
HealtH
Movie • 1980
Dick Cavett
Smash His Camera
Movie • 2010
Self
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
Movie • 1982
Self
Norman Mailer: The American
Movie • 2012
Self
Lucy and Desi
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett
Movie • 1982
Self
The Capote Tapes
Movie • 2021
Self
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
Movie • 2012
Narrator
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
Movie • 2007
Self
Godard by Godard
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
After School
Movie • 1988
Himself
River of Fundament
Movie • 2014
Wake Guest
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Movie • 2022
Self
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
Movie • 2007
Self
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
Movie • 2007
Self
A Venue For The End Of The World
Movie • 2014
Himself
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
Movie • 2014
Self
Night of 100 Stars III
Movie • 1990
Self
Moonage Daydream
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Beetlejuice
Movie • 1988
Bernard
Elvis Meets Nixon
Movie • 1997
Narrator
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
Movie • 1990
Self
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie • 1972
Narrator (voice)
Behind the Seams
Movie • 2000
Detective
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
Movie • 2011
Self
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Movie • 2019
Self
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Mike Wallace Is Here
Movie • 2019
(archive footage)
Best of Enemies
Movie • 2015
Self
Driving Me Crazy
Movie • 2012
Mr. Johnson
Groucho & Cavett
Movie • 2022
Self
Forrest Gump
Movie • 1994
Dick Cavett
Jimi Hendrix
Movie • 1973
Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Movie
Self
Duane Hopwood
Movie • 2005
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Movie • 2015
Himself
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
Movie • 1990
Self
Bye Bye Kipling
Movie • 1986
Self
On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
Movie • 2017
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
Movie • 2006
Self
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
Movie • 1970
Self
Fight of the Century
Movie • 1971
Self-(Audience Member)
Listen to Me Marlon
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
Movie • 1987
Dick Cavett
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
Movie • 1969
Self
Dick Cavett's Watergate
Movie • 2014
Himself
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Movie • 2016
Self
Frontier University Dreams
Movie • 2005
Narrator
This Is Bob Hope...
Movie • 2017
Self
Simon
Movie • 1980
Himself
Remember Me
Movie • 1979
Narrator
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
Movie • 2018
Self
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
Movie • 2014
Self - Chat-Show Host
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Movie • 2017
Self
Imagine
Movie • 1972
Self
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Movie • 1994
Self (archive footage)
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
Movie • 1975
Self
Inside Deep Throat
Movie • 2005
Self
The Education of Gore Vidal
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Nureyev
Movie • 2018
Self, Archive Footage
Jack Paar: Smart Television
Movie • 2003
Self
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Kyoko
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
The One, the Only... Groucho
Movie • 1991
Self
Dick Cavett's Vietnam
Movie • 2015
Janis
Movie • 1974
Excuse Me for Living
Movie • 2012
Reverend Pilatus
Year of the Gun
Movie • 1991
Ben Gershon
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising
Movie • 1999
Narrator
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
Movie • 2010
Self
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Movie • 2019
Self
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
Movie • 2013
Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
Movie • 2007
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson
Movie • 2000
Narrator
The Fred Astaire Songbook
Movie • 1991
Self (archive footage)
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
Celsius 41.11
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Barbarians at the Gate
Movie • 1993
Self
Nightside
Movie • 1973
Dick Cavett
Power Play
Movie • 1978
Dick Cavett
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
Movie • 2021
Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Unforgettable
Movie • 2010
Self
Festival at Ford's
Movie • 1971
Self
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Movie • 2019
Self - TV Host (archive footage)
From Roger Moore with Love
Movie • 2024
Self
Dick Cavett Meets ABBA
Movie • 1981
Host
One to One: John & Yoko
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)
From Darkness to Light
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Movie • 2025
Self
Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller
Movie • 2001
Self
The Hiding Place
Movie • 1960
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Hocus Pocus, It's Magic
Movie • 1978
Self - Host
Jim Henson Idea Man
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
The New Yorker at 100
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
John Candy: I Like Me
Movie • 2025
Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
An American Family at 50
Movie • 2024
Self
Frequency
Movie • 2000
Himself
Cheers
TV • 1982
Himself
The Simpsons
TV • 1989
Dick Cavett (voice)
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self - Guest
The Odd Couple
TV • 1970
Dick Cavett
Alias Smith and Jones
TV • 1971
The Merv Griffin Show
TV • 1962
Self
Hotel
TV • 1982
Gossip Girl
TV • 2007
Self
Time Was
TV • 1979
Self - Host
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
TV • 1968
Self
The Story of Late Night
TV • 2021
Self
ABC Stage 67
TV • 1966
Self - Host
This Is Tom Jones
TV • 1969
Self
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self (uncredited)
Amazing Stories
TV • 1985
Dick Cavett
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV • 1962
Self
Childrens Hospital
TV • 2008
Dick Cavett
Dinah!
TV • 1974
Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV • 2014
Self
The Phil Donahue Show
TV • 1967
Self
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
TV • 2021
Self (archive footage)
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Host
Celebrity Ghost Stories
TV • 2009
Self
What's My Name | Muhammad Ali
TV • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Self - Host
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
TV • 2015
Self - Guest
Remember When
TV • 1981
Self - Host
Yesteryear
TV • 1982
Self - Host
Kraft Music Hall
TV • 1958
Self
It's Garry Shandling's Show
TV • 1986
Self (archive footage) (audio) (uncredited)
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
TV • 2011
Self (archive footage)
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
TV • 2026
Self - Talk Show Host