Dick Cavett
Born: 1936-11-19
Place of Birth: Gibbon, Nebraska, USA
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.
Known For
Forrest Gump
1994★ 8.5
A Venue For The End Of The World
2014★ 6.0
Beetlejuice
1988★ 7.4
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972★ 6.0
John Candy: I Like Me
2025★ 7.9
Excuse Me for Living
2012★ 4.3
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017★ 6.0
Godard Cinema
2023★ 5.5
HealtH
1980★ 5.2
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
2014★ 6.5
Annie Hall
1977★ 7.7
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024★ 7.7
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
2010★ 0.0
Groucho & Cavett
2022★ 7.0
Simon
1980★ 6.2
Jimi Hendrix
1973★ 7.7
Power Play
1978★ 7.2
Moonage Daydream
2022★ 7.5
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987★ 6.7
Funny
1988★ 0.0
Inside Deep Throat
2005★ 6.4
Janis
1974★ 7.4
Cocksucker Blues
1972★ 5.8
Imagine
1972★ 7.0
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990★ 0.0
One to One: John & Yoko
2025★ 7.1
David Bowie: Five Years
2013★ 7.5
Norman Mailer: The American
2012★ 7.0
Nureyev
2018★ 7.3
Lucy and Desi
2022★ 7.1
Godard by Godard
2023★ 7.8
Barbarians at the Gate
1993★ 6.8
Kyoko
2017★ 6.0
The New Yorker at 100
2025★ 6.6
Frontier University Dreams
2005★ 0.0
Nightside
1973★ 0.0
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015★ 7.3
Dick Cavett's Watergate
2014★ 7.0
Smash His Camera
2010★ 6.9
Celsius 41.11
2004★ 5.0
From Roger Moore with Love
2024★ 8.0
This Is Bob Hope...
2017★ 8.0
Elvis Meets Nixon
1997★ 7.0
The Fred Astaire Songbook
1991★ 0.0
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
1975★ 2.0
River of Fundament
2014★ 5.9
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011★ 6.8
Moon Over Parador
1988★ 5.8
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019★ 6.5
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018★ 7.4
Best of Enemies
2015★ 7.2
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
1987★ 6.4
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023★ 6.0
Listen to Me Marlon
2015★ 7.5
The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett
1982★ 0.0
The Capote Tapes
2021★ 5.9
Year of the Gun
1991★ 4.9
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
2019★ 7.6
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025★ 6.9
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022★ 8.2
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019★ 4.6
Night of 100 Stars III
1990★ 4.0
Unforgettable
2010★ 5.0
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021★ 6.2
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994★ 0.0
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022★ 6.7
Duane Hopwood
2005★ 5.6
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008★ 6.3
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019★ 6.5
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019★ 6.7
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016★ 7.6
The One, the Only... Groucho
1991★ 0.0
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022★ 7.5
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013★ 7.5
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
1969★ 0.0
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
2018★ 7.2
Jack Paar: Smart Television
2003★ 0.0
After School
1988★ 2.1
From Darkness to Light
2025★ 6.7
Live at Mister Kelly's
2021★ 0.0
Remember Me
1979★ 0.0
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
2012★ 7.0
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
2022★ 0.0
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
1986★ 6.0
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2019★ 7.5
Dick Cavett's Vietnam
2015★ 7.0
Behind the Seams
2000★ 0.0
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
2021★ 2.5
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
2014★ 8.0
The Education of Gore Vidal
2003★ 6.0
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
1970★ 0.0
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
2011★ 7.9
Fight of the Century
1971★ 0.0
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
1982★ 0.0
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013★ 7.8
The Hiding Place
1960★ 0.0
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972★ 6.0
Dick Cavett Meets ABBA
1981★ 0.0
Driving Me Crazy
2012★ 0.0
Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller
2001★ 0.0
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
2007★ 4.8
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
2006★ 0.0
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
N/A★ 0.0
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
2012★ 6.9
On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
2017★ 0.0