Dick Cavett
Known for: Acting
Born: November 19, 1936
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
125 movies · 33 TV shows, newest first
7.8
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
2026
7.8
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
7.0
The New Yorker at 100
2025
6.7
From Darkness to Light
2025
7.1
One to One: John & Yoko
2025
7.1
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025
8.0
From Roger Moore with Love
2024
7.8
Group Therapy
2024
7.8
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024
7.3
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024
NR
An American Family at 50
2024
7.5
Paul Newman: The Restless
2023
5.6
Godard Cinema
2023
7.2
Godard by Godard
2023
7.0
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023
7.0
Groucho & Cavett
2022
8.2
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022
7.4
Moonage Daydream
2022
6.7
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
7.5
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022
NR
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
2022
7.0
Lucy and Desi
2022
NR
My Guest is Orson Welles
2021
NR
Live at Mister Kelly's
2021
5.9
The Capote Tapes
2021
6.2
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021
2.5
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
2021
7.5
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
2021
5.7
The Story of Late Night
2021
6.5
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019
7.6
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
2019
6.5
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019
7.5
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2019
7.4
What's My Name | Muhammad Ali
2019
6.7
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019
5.3
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019
7.3
Nureyev
2018
7.2
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
2018
7.4
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018
7.7
This Is Bob Hope...
2017
6.0
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017
6.0
Kyoko
2017
7.0
On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
2017
7.4
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
7.3
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
7.2
Best of Enemies
2015
7.5
Listen to Me Marlon
2015
7.0
Dick Cavett's Vietnam
2015
8.0
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
2014
6.0
A Venue For The End Of The World
2014
7.0
Dick Cavett's Watergate
2014
6.5
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
2014
5.1
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
5.9
River of Fundament
2014
7.5
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013
7.7
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013
7.5
David Bowie: Five Years
2013
4.0
Excuse Me for Living
2012
6.9
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
2012
7.0
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
2012
7.0
Norman Mailer: The American
2012
NR
Driving Me Crazy
2012
6.9
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
7.5
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
2011
7.9
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
2011
NR
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
2010
5.0
Unforgettable
2010
6.9
Smash His Camera
2010
7.3
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
4.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
6.9
Childrens Hospital
2008
6.3
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008
8.1
Gossip Girl
20074.0
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
2007NR
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
2007NR
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
2007NR
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
2007
5.0
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
2007
NR
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
2006
6.6
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
2006
5.9
Duane Hopwood
2005
NR
Frontier University Dreams
2005
6.5
Inside Deep Throat
2005
5.5
Celsius 41.11
2004
8.0
Jack Paar: Smart Television
2003
8.7
The Education of Gore Vidal
2003
5.3
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
NR
Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller
20017.0
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
2000
10.0
Behind the Seams
2000NR
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson
2000
7.3
Frequency
200010.0
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising
1999
7.0
Elvis Meets Nixon
1997
9.0
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
8.5
Forrest Gump
1994
6.9
Barbarians at the Gate
1993
4.9
Year of the Gun
1991
10.0
The One, the Only... Groucho
1991
NR
The Fred Astaire Songbook
1991
NR
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990
4.3
Night of 100 Stars III
1990NR
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
1990
8.0
The Simpsons
1989
5.8
Moon Over Parador
1988
2.6
After School
1988
8.0
Funny
1988
7.4
Beetlejuice
1988
6.5
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
1987
6.7
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987
NR
Bye Bye Kipling
1986
7.1
It's Garry Shandling's Show
1986
6.3
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
1986
7.5
Amazing Stories
1985
7.9
Koyaanisqatsi
1983
7.6
Cheers
1982
6.8
Hotel
1982
NR
Yesteryear
1982
NR
The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett
1982
6.1
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
9.0
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
1982
NR
Dick Cavett Meets ABBA
1981
NR
Remember When
1981
5.4
HealtH
1980
6.3
Simon
1980
NR
Time Was
1979
8.0
Remember Me
1979
7.2
Power Play
1978NR
Hocus Pocus, It's Magic
1978
7.7
Annie Hall
1977
6.9
Saturday Night Live
1975
6.0
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
1975
7.0
Dinah!
1974
7.6
Janis
1974
7.7
Jimi Hendrix
1973
10.0
Nightside
1973
7.1
Imagine
1972
5.8
Cocksucker Blues
1972
6.0
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972
7.2
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972NR
Festival at Ford's
1971
NR
Fight of the Century
1971
7.0
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
NR
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
1970
7.8
The Odd Couple
1970
8.0
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
1969
6.7
This Is Tom Jones
1969
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
6.8
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968
NR
The Phil Donahue Show
1967
6.8
ABC Stage 67
1966
6.8
The Merv Griffin Show
1962
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
NR
Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place
1960
5.4
Kraft Music Hall
1958
NR
From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall
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NR
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
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