Dick Cavett

Dick 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.

On screen

  • One to One: John & Yoko
  • From Darkness to Light
  • SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
  • The New Yorker at 100
  • John Candy: I Like Me
  • From Roger Moore with Love
  • Jim Henson Idea Man
  • An American Family at 50
  • Group Therapy
  • Remembering Gene Wilder
  • The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
  • Godard Cinema
  • Godard by Godard
  • Paul Newman: The Restless
  • Lucy and Desi
  • The Ghost of Richard Harris
  • Moonage Daydream
  • 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
  • Groucho & Cavett
  • Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
  • Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
  • Live at Mister Kelly's
  • The Capote Tapes
  • Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
  • Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
  • My Guest is Orson Welles
  • Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
  • What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
  • Mike Wallace Is Here
  • Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
  • Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
  • Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
  • Bergman: A Year in a Life
  • Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
  • Nureyev
  • On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
  • This Is Bob Hope...
  • Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
  • Kyoko
  • All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
  • Best of Enemies
  • Janis: Little Girl Blue
  • Listen to Me Marlon
  • Dick Cavett's Vietnam
  • River of Fundament
  • A Venue For The End Of The World
  • James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
  • Dick Cavett's Watergate
  • Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
  • David Bowie: Five Years
  • Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
  • Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
  • Norman Mailer: The American
  • Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
  • Driving Me Crazy
  • Excuse Me for Living
  • Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
  • Woody Allen: A Documentary
  • Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
  • Smash His Camera
  • Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
  • Unforgettable
  • Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
  • Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
  • The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
  • Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
  • Duane Hopwood
  • Frontier University Dreams
  • Inside Deep Throat
  • Celsius 41.11
  • The Education of Gore Vidal
  • Jack Paar: Smart Television
  • Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller
  • Behind the Seams
  • Frequency
  • Elvis Meets Nixon
  • Forrest Gump
  • Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
  • Barbarians at the Gate
  • The One, the Only... Groucho
  • Year of the Gun
  • The Fred Astaire Songbook
  • Night of 100 Stars III
  • Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
  • Moon Over Parador
  • Funny
  • After School
  • Beetlejuice
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
  • Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
  • Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
  • Bye Bye Kipling
  • Koyaanisqatsi
  • The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
  • The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett
  • Dick Cavett Meets ABBA
  • HealtH
  • Simon
  • Remember Me
  • Power Play
  • Annie Hall
  • Funny Girl to Funny Lady
  • Janis
  • Jimi Hendrix
  • Nightside
  • Cocksucker Blues
  • Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
  • Hollywood: The Dream Factory
  • Imagine
  • Fight of the Century
  • Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
  • Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
  • Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place
  • From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall
  • I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War

Behind the camera

  • Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes

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