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Born November 19, 1936 · Gibbon, Nebraska, USA
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.

John Candy: I Like Me
2025

The New Yorker at 100
2025

From Darkness to Light
2025

One to One: John & Yoko
2025

SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025

From Roger Moore with Love
2024

Jim Henson Idea Man
2024

An American Family at 50
2024

Godard Cinema
2023

Godard by Godard
2023

The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023

Groucho & Cavett
2022

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022

Moonage Daydream
2022

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022

The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022

Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
2022

Lucy and Desi
2022

Live at Mister Kelly's
2021

The Capote Tapes
2021

Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
2021

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
2019

Mike Wallace Is Here
2019

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2019

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019

Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019

Nureyev
2018

Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
2018

Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018

This Is Bob Hope...
2017

Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017

Kyoko
2017

On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
2017

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016

Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015

Best of Enemies
2015

Listen to Me Marlon
2015

Dick Cavett's Vietnam
2015

James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
2014

A Venue For The End Of The World
2014

Dick Cavett's Watergate
2014

Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
2014

River of Fundament
2014

Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013

David Bowie: Five Years
2013

Excuse Me for Living
2012

Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
2012

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
2012

Norman Mailer: The American
2012

Driving Me Crazy
2012

Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011

Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
2011

Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
2010

Unforgettable
2010

Smash His Camera
2010

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
2007
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
2007
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
2007
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
2007

Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
2007

The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
2006

Duane Hopwood
2005

Frontier University Dreams
2005

Inside Deep Throat
2005

Celsius 41.11
2004

Jack Paar: Smart Television
2003

The Education of Gore Vidal
2003

Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller
2001
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
2000

Behind the Seams
2000
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson
2000

Frequency
2000
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising
1999

Elvis Meets Nixon
1997

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994

Forrest Gump
1994

Barbarians at the Gate
1993

Year of the Gun
1991

The One, the Only... Groucho
1991

The Fred Astaire Songbook
1991

Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990

Night of 100 Stars III
1990
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
1990

Moon Over Parador
1988

After School
1988

Funny
1988

Beetlejuice
1988

Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
1987

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987

Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
1986
Bye Bye Kipling
1986

Koyaanisqatsi
1983

The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett
1982

The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
1982

Dick Cavett Meets ABBA
1981

HealtH
1980

Simon
1980

Remember Me
1979

Power Play
1978
Hocus Pocus, It's Magic
1978

Annie Hall
1977

Funny Girl to Funny Lady
1975

Janis
1974

Jimi Hendrix
1973

Nightside
1973

Imagine
1972

Cocksucker Blues
1972

Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972

Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
Festival at Ford's
1971

Fight of the Century
1971

Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
1970

Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
1969

The Hiding Place
1960