
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.

Dick Cavett
Annie Hall

Self
From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall

Dick Cavett
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Self
Bergman - ett år, ett liv

Self
Cocksucker Blues

Self
Live at Mister Kelly's

Self
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce

Self (archive footage)
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story

Self (archive footage)
Godard, seul le cinéma

Self
Moon Over Parador

Self
Funny

Self
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

Self
Woody Allen: A Documentary

Self (archive footage)
David Bowie: Five Years

Dick Cavett
HealtH

Self
Smash His Camera

Self
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell

Self
Norman Mailer: The American

Self (archive footage)
Lucy and Desi

Self
The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett

Self
The Capote Tapes

Narrator
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay

Self (archive footage)
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Himself
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore

Self (archive footage)
Godard par Godard

Himself
After School

Wake Guest
River of Fundament

Self
The Ghost of Richard Harris

Self
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?

Self
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere

Himself
A Venue For The End Of The World

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

Self
Night of 100 Stars III

Self (archive footage)
Moonage Daydream

Bernard
Beetlejuice

Narrator
Elvis Meets Nixon

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

Narrator (voice)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Detective
Behind the Seams

Self
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again

Self (archive footage)
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

Self
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael

Self (archive footage)
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

(archive footage)
Mike Wallace Is Here

Self
Best of Enemies

Mr. Johnson
Driving Me Crazy

Self
Groucho & Cavett

Dick Cavett
Forrest Gump

Self (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix

Self (archive footage)
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

Self
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War

Duane Hopwood

Himself
Janis: Little Girl Blue

Self
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous

Self
Bye Bye Kipling

On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone

Self
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks

Self
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles

Self-(Audience Member)
Fight of the Century

Self (archive footage)
Listen to Me Marlon

Dick Cavett
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread

Self
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show

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

Himself
Dick Cavett's Watergate

Narrator
Frontier University Dreams

Himself
Simon

Self
This Is Bob Hope...

Narrator
Remember Me

Self
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes

Self - Chat-Show Host
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate

Self
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America

Self
Imagine

Self (archive footage)
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Self
Funny Girl to Funny Lady

Self
Inside Deep Throat

Self (archive footage)
The Education of Gore Vidal

Self, Archive Footage
Nureyev

Self
Jack Paar: Smart Television

Self (archive footage)
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice

Self (archive footage)
Kyoko

Self
The One, the Only... Groucho

Dick Cavett's Vietnam

Janis

Reverend Pilatus
Excuse Me for Living

Ben Gershon
Year of the Gun

Narrator
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising

Self
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves

Self
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'

Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie

Narrator
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson

Self (archive footage)
The Fred Astaire Songbook

Self (archive footage)
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel

Self (archive footage)
Celsius 41.11

Self
Barbarians at the Gate

Dick Cavett
Nightside

Dick Cavett
Power Play

Self (archive footage)
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe

Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

Self
Unforgettable

Self
Festival at Ford's

Self (archive footage)
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue

Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast

Self
From Roger Moore with Love

Host
Dick Cavett Meets ABBA

Self (archive footage)
One to One: John & Yoko

Self (archive footage)
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy

Self (archive footage)
From Darkness to Light

Self (archive footage)
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

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

Self
Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller

The Hiding Place

Self (archive footage)
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story

Self - Host
Hocus Pocus, It's Magic
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
114
Gender
Male
Birthday
1936-11-19
Place of Birth
Gibbon, Nebraska, USA
Also Known As
Richard Alva Cavett