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