Dick Cavett

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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

Dick Cavett

The Simpsons

Dick Cavett (voice)

Beetlejuice

Bernard

Annie Hall

Dick Cavett

Gossip Girl

Self

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Dick Cavett

Frequency

Himself

Koyaanisqatsi

Self (archive footage)

Full Filmography

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

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