Dick Cavett
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 Ma…
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Filmography
Acting (154)
Movies (121)
John Candy: I Like Me
2025as Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
One to One: John & Yoko
2025as Self (archive footage)
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025as Self
The New Yorker at 100
2025as Self (archive footage)
From Darkness to Light
2025as Self (archive footage)
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024as Self (archive footage)
Group Therapy
2024as Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
From Roger Moore with Love
2024as Self
An American Family at 50
2024as Self
Godard Cinema
2023as Self (archive footage)
Godard by Godard
2023as Self (archive footage)
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023as Self (archive footage)
Moonage Daydream
2022as Self (archive footage)
Groucho & Cavett
2022as Self
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022as Self (archive footage)
Lucy and Desi
2022as Self (archive footage)
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022as Self
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022as Self (archive footage)
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
2022as Self (archive footage)
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
2021as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Live at Mister Kelly's
2021as Self
The Capote Tapes
2021as Self
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021as Self (archive footage)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019as Self
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019as (archive footage)
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
2019as Self (archive footage)
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2019as Self (archive footage)
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019as Self
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018as Self
Nureyev
2018as Self, Archive Footage
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
2018as Self
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017as Self
This Is Bob Hope...
2017as Self
Kyoko
2017as 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
2016as Self
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015as Himself
Best of Enemies
2015as Self
Listen to Me Marlon
2015as Self (archive footage)
Dick Cavett's Vietnam
2015
A Venue For The End Of The World
2014as Himself
River of Fundament
2014as Wake Guest
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
2014as Self - Chat-Show Host
Dick Cavett's Watergate
2014as Himself
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
2014as Self
David Bowie: Five Years
2013as Self (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013as Self (archive footage)
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
2012as Self (archive footage)
Excuse Me for Living
2012as Reverend Pilatus
Norman Mailer: The American
2012as Self
Driving Me Crazy
2012as Mr. Johnson
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
2012as Narrator
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011as Self
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
2011as Self
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
2010as Self
Smash His Camera
2010as Self
Unforgettable
2010as Self
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008as Self (archive footage)
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
2007as Self
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
2007as Self
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
2007as Self
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
2007as Self (archive footage)
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
2007
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
2006as Self
Inside Deep Throat
2005as Self
Frontier University Dreams
2005as Narrator
Duane Hopwood
2005
Celsius 41.11
2004as Self (archive footage)
Jack Paar: Smart Television
2003as Self
The Education of Gore Vidal
2003as Self (archive footage)
Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller
2001as Self
Frequency
2000as Himself
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
2000as Self (archive footage)
Behind the Seams
2000as Detective
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson
2000as Narrator
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising
1999as Narrator
Elvis Meets Nixon
1997as Narrator
Forrest Gump
1994as Dick Cavett
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994as Self (archive footage)
Barbarians at the Gate
1993as Self
The Fred Astaire Songbook
1991as Self (archive footage)
The One, the Only... Groucho
1991as Self
Year of the Gun
1991as Ben Gershon
Night of 100 Stars III
1990as Self
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990as Self
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
1990as Self
Beetlejuice
1988as Bernard
Funny
1988as Self
Moon Over Parador
1988as Self
After School
1988as Himself
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987as Dick Cavett
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
1987as Dick Cavett
Bye Bye Kipling
1986as Self
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
1986as Self
Koyaanisqatsi
1983as Self (archive footage)
The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett
1982as Self
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
1982as Self
Dick Cavett Meets ABBA
1981as Host
Simon
1980as Himself
HealtH
1980as Dick Cavett
Remember Me
1979as Narrator
Hocus Pocus, It's Magic
1978as Self - Host
Power Play
1978as Dick Cavett
Annie Hall
1977as Dick Cavett
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
1975as Self
Janis
1974
Nightside
1973as Dick Cavett
Jimi Hendrix
1973as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972as Narrator (voice)
Imagine
1972as Self
Cocksucker Blues
1972as Self
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972as Self
Festival at Ford's
1971as Self
Fight of the Century
1971as Self-(Audience Member)
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
1970as Self
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
1969as Self
The Hiding Place
1960
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
as Self
From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall
as Self
Television (33)
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
2026as Self - Talk Show Host
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
2021as Self (archive footage)
The Story of Late Night
2021as Self
What's My Name | Muhammad Ali
2019as Self (archive footage)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015as Self - Guest
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014as Self
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
2011as Self (archive footage)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009as Self - Guest
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009as Self
Childrens Hospital
2008as Dick Cavett
Gossip Girl
2007as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003as Self - Guest
The Simpsons
1989as Dick Cavett (voice)
It's Garry Shandling's Show
1986as Self (archive footage) (audio) (uncredited)
Amazing Stories
1985as Dick Cavett
Cheers
1982as Himself
Hotel
1982
Yesteryear
1982as Self - Host
Remember When
1981as Self - Host
Time Was
1979as Self - Host
Saturday Night Live
1975as Self - Host
Dinah!
1974as Self
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Odd Couple
1970as Dick Cavett
This Is Tom Jones
1969as Self
The Dick Cavett Show
1968as Self - Host
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
1968as Self
The Phil Donahue Show
1967as Self
ABC Stage 67
1966as Self - Host
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962as Self
The Merv Griffin Show
1962as Self
Kraft Music Hall
1958as Self
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955as Self
Crew (2)
Television (1)
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