Dick Cavett
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest
2009
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Series
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Series
The Simpsons
Dick Cavett (voice)
1989
Series
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self
2014
Series
Saturday Night Live
Self (uncredited)
1975
Series
Saturday Night Live
Self - Host
1975
Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003
Series
Cheers
Himself
1982
Series
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
Series
Late Night with David Letterman
Self - Guest
1982
Series
Gossip Girl
Self
2007
Series
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Host
1968
Series
Hotel
1982
Series
Childrens Hospital
Dick Cavett
2008
Series
Dinah!
Self
1974
Series
Amazing Stories
Dick Cavett
1985
Series
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Self
2009
Film
Forrest Gump
Dick Cavett
1994
Series
The Odd Couple
Dick Cavett
1970
Series
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Self
1968
Series
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Series
Kraft Music Hall
Self
1958
Series
It's Garry Shandling's Show
Self (archive footage) (audio) (uncredited)
1986
Film
Beetlejuice
Bernard
1988
Series
ABC Stage 67
Self - Host
1966
Series
The Phil Donahue Show
Self
1967
Series
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
Self - Talk Show Host
2026
Film
John Candy: I Like Me
Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
2025
Series
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
Frequency
Himself
2000
Film
Annie Hall
Dick Cavett
1977
Series
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Self (archive footage)
2011
Series
This Is Tom Jones
Self
1969
Series
The Story of Late Night
Self
2021
Film
Jim Henson Idea Man
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Dick Cavett
1987
Film
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Self
2011
Series
What's My Name | Muhammad Ali
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
Inside Deep Throat
Self
2005
Film
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Self
2025
Film
Koyaanisqatsi
Self (archive footage)
1983
Film
Year of the Gun
Ben Gershon
1991
Film
Lucy and Desi
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
Moonage Daydream
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
One to One: John & Yoko
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
NASA, Nazis and the Space Race
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
1990
Film
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
The New Yorker at 100
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
From Roger Moore with Love
Self
2024
Film
Barbarians at the Gate
Self
1993
Film
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
Self
2019
Film
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Self
2018
Film
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Self
2016
Film
Listen to Me Marlon
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
Moon Over Parador
Self
1988
Film
Godard Cinema
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Self - TV Host (archive footage)
2019
Film
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
Mike Wallace Is Here
(archive footage)
2019
Film
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Self
2022
Film
Paul Newman: The Restless
Self (archive footage)
2023
Series
Remember When
Self - Host
1981
Film
From Darkness to Light
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
Film
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Self
2019
Film
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
Dick Cavett
1987
Film
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Self (archive footage)
1994
Film
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Himself
2015
Film
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Self (archive footage)
2012
Film
Imagine
Self
1972
Film
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
Self (archive footage)
2006
Film
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
Self - TV Host (archive footage)
2021
Film
This Is Bob Hope...
Self
2017
Film
Group Therapy
Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
2024
Film
Fight of the Century
Self-(Audience Member)
1971
Film
Live at Mister Kelly's
Self
2021
Film
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Narrator (voice)
1972
Film
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Self (archive footage)
2013
Film
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Groucho & Cavett
Self
2022
Film
Best of Enemies
Self
2015
Film
Elvis Meets Nixon
Narrator
1997
Film
Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place
1960
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
Self (archive footage)
2000
Film
Smash His Camera
Self
2010
Film
Excuse Me for Living
Reverend Pilatus
2012
Film
The One, the Only... Groucho
Self
1991
Film
Remembering Gene Wilder
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
Self - TV Host (archive footage)
2013
Film
Jack Paar: Smart Television
Self
2003
Film
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Self (archive footage)
2019
Film
The Education of Gore Vidal
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Self
2017
Film
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
Self
2014
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
Self
2007
Film
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
Self
1986
Film
The Fred Astaire Songbook
Self (archive footage)
1991
Film
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
Self
1972
Film
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
Self
1970
Film
David Bowie: Five Years
Self (archive footage)
2013
Film
Dick Cavett's Watergate
Himself
2014
Film
Power Play
Dick Cavett
1978
Film
The Capote Tapes
Self
2021
Film
Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller
Self
2001
Film
Nightside
Dick Cavett
1973
Film
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
Self
1982
Film
Simon
Himself
1980
Film
Cocksucker Blues
Self
1972
Film
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
Self
2018
Film
Norman Mailer: The American
Self
2012
Film
Jimi Hendrix
Self (archive footage)
1973
Film
Celsius 41.11
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
River of Fundament
Wake Guest
2014
Film
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
Self
1975
Film
After School
Himself
1988
Film
Duane Hopwood
2005
Film
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
Self
1990
Film
An American Family at 50
Self
2024
Film
Driving Me Crazy
Mr. Johnson
2012
Film
Dick Cavett Meets ABBA
Host
1981
Series
Yesteryear
Self - Host
1982
Festival at Ford's
Self
1971
Film
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
HealtH
Dick Cavett
1980
Film
Funny
Self
1988
Film
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
Self - Chat-Show Host
2014
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
Self
1990
Hocus Pocus, It's Magic
Self - Host
1978
Film
Nureyev
Self, Archive Footage
2018
Film
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
Self
2011
Film
Kyoko
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
Godard by Godard
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
A Venue For The End Of The World
Himself
2014
Film
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
Self
Film
Dick Cavett's Vietnam
2015
Film
Unforgettable
Self
2010
Film
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
Self (archive footage)
2007
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
2007
Film
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
Self
2010
Film
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
Self
1969
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
Self
2007
Film
Behind the Seams
Detective
2000
Film
The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett
Self
1982
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson
Narrator
2000
Film
From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall
Self
Film
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
Self
2006
Film
My Guest is Orson Welles
2021
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising
Narrator
1999
Film
Remember Me
Narrator
1979
Series
Time Was
Self - Host
1979
Film
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
Narrator
2012
Film
Frontier University Dreams
Narrator
2005
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
Self
2007
Film
Janis
1974
Film
Bye Bye Kipling
Self
1986
Film
On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
2017