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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,…
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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.
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Dick Cavett's Filmography
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John Candy: I Like Me
as Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
The New Yorker at 100
as Self (archive footage)
NASA, Nazis and the Space Race
as Self (archive footage)
From Darkness to Light
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
One to One: John & Yoko
as Self (archive footage)
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
as Self
From Roger Moore with Love
as Self
Group Therapy
as Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
Jim Henson Idea Man
as Self (archive footage)
Remembering Gene Wilder
as Self (archive footage)
An American Family at 50
as Self
A Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy
as Self (archive footage)
Paul Newman: The Restless
as Self (archive footage)
Godard Cinema
as Self (archive footage)
Godard by Godard
as Self (archive footage)
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
as Self (archive footage)
Groucho & Cavett
as Self
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self (archive footage)
Moonage Daydream
as Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (archive footage)
The Ghost of Richard Harris
as Self
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
as Self (archive footage)
Lucy and Desi
as Self (archive footage)
My Guest is Orson Welles
Live at Mister Kelly's
as Self
The Capote Tapes
as Self
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
as Self (archive footage)
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
as Self
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
as Self (archive footage)
Mike Wallace Is Here
as (archive footage)
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
as Self (archive footage)
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
as Self
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Nureyev
as Self, Archive Footage
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
as Self
Bergman: A Year in a Life
as Self
This Is Bob Hope...
as Self
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
as Self
Kyoko
as Self (archive footage)
On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
as Self
Janis: Little Girl Blue
as Himself
Best of Enemies
as Self
Listen to Me Marlon
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dick Cavett's Vietnam
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
as Self
A Venue For The End Of The World
as Himself
Dick Cavett's Watergate
as Himself
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
as Self - Chat-Show Host
River of Fundament
as Wake Guest
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
as Self (archive footage)
David Bowie: Five Years
as Self (archive footage)
Excuse Me for Living
as Reverend Pilatus
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
as Narrator
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
as Self (archive footage)
Norman Mailer: The American
as Self
Driving Me Crazy
as Mr. Johnson
Woody Allen: A Documentary
as Self
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
as Self
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
as Self
Unforgettable
as Self
Smash His Camera
as Self
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
as Self
No Poster
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
as Self
No Poster
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
as Self
No Poster
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
as Self (archive footage)
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
as Self
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
as Self (archive footage)
Duane Hopwood
Frontier University Dreams
as Narrator
Inside Deep Throat
as Self
Celsius 41.11
as Self (archive footage)
Jack Paar: Smart Television
as Self
The Education of Gore Vidal
as Self (archive footage)
Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller
as Self
No Poster
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
as Self (archive footage)
Behind the Seams
as Detective
No Poster
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson
as Narrator
Frequency
as Himself
No Poster
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising
as Narrator
Elvis Meets Nixon
as Narrator
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Self (archive footage)
Forrest Gump
as Dick Cavett
Barbarians at the Gate
as Self
Year of the Gun
as Ben Gershon
The One, the Only... Groucho
as Self
The Fred Astaire Songbook
as Self (archive footage)
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
as Self
Night of 100 Stars III
as Self
No Poster
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
as Self
Moon Over Parador
as Self
After School
as Himself
Funny
as Self
Beetlejuice
as Bernard
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
as Dick Cavett
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
as Dick Cavett
Bye Bye Kipling
as Self
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
as Self
Koyaanisqatsi
as Self (archive footage)
The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett
as Self
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
as Self
Dick Cavett Meets ABBA
as Host
HealtH
as Dick Cavett
Simon
as Himself
Remember Me
as Narrator
Power Play
as Dick Cavett
No Poster
Hocus Pocus, It's Magic
as Self - Host
Annie Hall
as Dick Cavett
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
as Self
Janis
Jimi Hendrix
as Self (archive footage)
Nightside
as Dick Cavett
Imagine
as Self
Cocksucker Blues
as Self
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
as Self
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Narrator (voice)
No Poster
Festival at Ford's
as Self
Fight of the Century
as Self-(Audience Member)
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
as Self
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
as Self
Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
as Self
From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall
as Self