
Dick Cavett
Actor
Born: November 19, 1936 (89 years old)
Place of birth: Gibbon, Nebraska, USA
Biography
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 (72)
- Annie Hall (1977, ★ 7.7)
- Forrest Gump (1994, ★ 8.5)
- A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987, ★ 6.7)
- Bergman: A Year in a Life (2018, ★ 7.4)
- Woody Allen: A Documentary (2011, ★ 6.9)
- David Bowie: Five Years (2013, ★ 7.5)
- Smash His Camera (2010, ★ 6.9)
- Lucy and Desi (2022, ★ 7.1)
- Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (2012, ★ 6.9)
- Moonage Daydream (2022, ★ 7.5)
- Beetlejuice (1988, ★ 7.4)
- Elvis Meets Nixon (1997, ★ 7)
- Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019, ★ 7.5)
- What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019, ★ 6.7)
- Best of Enemies (2015, ★ 7.2)
- Jimi Hendrix (1973, ★ 7.7)
- Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022, ★ 6.7)
- Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015, ★ 7.3)
- Listen to Me Marlon (2015, ★ 7.5)
- All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016, ★ 7.2)
- Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes (2018, ★ 7.2)
- Imagine (1972, ★ 7)
- Nureyev (2018, ★ 7.3)
- Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (2019, ★ 7.6)
- Janis (1974, ★ 7.4)
- Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' (2013, ★ 7.5)
- Power Play (1978, ★ 7.2)
- From Roger Moore with Love (2024, ★ 8)
- Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (2012, ★ 7)
- One to One: John & Yoko (2025, ★ 7.2)