Actor
Dick Cavett
126 movies as actor
Born Nov 19, 1936 (age 89)From Gibbon, Nebraska, USAAlso known as Richard Alva Cavett
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
Forrest Gump
1994 · Comedy, Drama
Beetlejuice
1988 · Fantasy, Comedy
Annie Hall
1977 · Comedy, Drama
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987 · Horror, Thriller
Frequency
2000 · Sci-Fi, Crime
Koyaanisqatsi
1983 · Documentary, Music
Moonage Daydream
2022 · Documentary, Music
Listen to Me Marlon
2015 · Documentary
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011 · Documentary
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015 · Documentary, Music
Best of Enemies
2015 · Documentary, History
Inside Deep Throat
2005 · Documentary, History
Dick Cavett movies
From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall
Self
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Self
John Candy: I Like Me
2025 · Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
The New Yorker at 100
2025 · Self (archive footage)
NASA, Nazis and the Space Race
2025 · Self (archive footage)
From Darkness to Light
2025 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
One to One: John & Yoko
2025 · Self (archive footage)
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025 · Self
From Roger Moore with Love
2024 · Self
Group Therapy
2024 · Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024 · Self (archive footage)
An American Family at 50
2024 · Self
Paul Newman: The Restless
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Godard Cinema
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Godard by Godard
2023 · Self (archive footage)
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Groucho & Cavett
2022 · Self
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Moonage Daydream
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022 · Self (archive footage)
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022 · Self
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Lucy and Desi
2022 · Self (archive footage)
My Guest is Orson Welles
2021
Live at Mister Kelly's
2021 · Self
The Capote Tapes
2021 · Self
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
2021 · Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019 · Self
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019 · (archive footage)
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2019 · Self (archive footage)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019 · Self
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019 · Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Nureyev
2018 · Self, Archive Footage
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
2018 · Self
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018 · Self
This Is Bob Hope...
2017 · Self
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017 · Self
Kyoko
2017 · Self (archive footage)
On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
2017
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016 · Self
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015 · Himself
Best of Enemies
2015 · Self
Listen to Me Marlon
2015 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dick Cavett's Vietnam
2015
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
2014 · Self
A Venue For The End Of The World
2014 · Himself
Dick Cavett's Watergate
2014 · Himself
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
2014 · Self - Chat-Show Host
River of Fundament
2014 · Wake Guest
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013 · Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013 · Self (archive footage)
David Bowie: Five Years
2013 · Self (archive footage)
Excuse Me for Living
2012 · Reverend Pilatus
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
2012 · Narrator
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
2012 · Self (archive footage)
Norman Mailer: The American
2012 · Self
Driving Me Crazy
2012 · Mr. Johnson
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011 · Self
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
2011 · Self
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
2010 · Self
Unforgettable
2010 · Self
Smash His Camera
2010 · Self
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008 · Self (archive footage)
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable St
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
2007 · Self
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
2007 · Self
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
2007 · Self
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
2007
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
2007 · Self (archive footage)
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
2006 · Self
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
2006 · Self (archive footage)
Duane Hopwood
2005
Frontier University Dreams
2005 · Narrator
Inside Deep Throat
2005 · Self
Celsius 41.11
2004 · Self (archive footage)
Jack Paar: Smart Television
2003 · Self
The Education of Gore Vidal
2003 · Self (archive footage)
Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller
2001 · Self
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
2000 · Self (archive footage)
Behind the Seams
2000 · Detective
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Lif
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson
2000 · Narrator
Frequency
2000 · Himself
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising
1999 · Narrator
Elvis Meets Nixon
1997 · Narrator
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994 · Self (archive footage)
Forrest Gump
1994 · Dick Cavett
Barbarians at the Gate
1993 · Self
Year of the Gun
1991 · Ben Gershon
The One, the Only... Groucho
1991 · Self
The Fred Astaire Songbook
1991 · Self (archive footage)
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990 · Self
Night of 100 Stars III
1990 · Self
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
1990 · Self
Moon Over Parador
1988 · Self
After School
1988 · Himself
Funny
1988 · Self
Beetlejuice
1988 · Bernard
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
1987 · Dick Cavett
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987 · Dick Cavett
Bye Bye Kipling
1986 · Self
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
1986 · Self
Koyaanisqatsi
1983 · Self (archive footage)
The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett
1982 · Self
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
1982 · Self
Dick Cavett Meets ABBA
1981 · Host
HealtH
1980 · Dick Cavett
Simon
1980 · Himself
Remember Me
1979 · Narrator
Power Play
1978 · Dick Cavett
Hocus Pocus, It's Magic
Hocus Pocus, It's Magic
1978 · Self - Host
Annie Hall
1977 · Dick Cavett
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
1975 · Self
Janis
1974
Jimi Hendrix
1973 · Self (archive footage)
Nightside
1973 · Dick Cavett
Imagine
1972 · Self
Cocksucker Blues
1972 · Self
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972 · Self
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972 · Narrator (voice)
Festival at Ford's
Festival at Ford's
1971 · Self
Fight of the Century
1971 · Self-(Audience Member)
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
1970 · Self
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
1969 · Self
Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place
1960
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