Dick Cavett
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,…
Filmography
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Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
2026
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
Group Therapy
2024
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024
Remembering Gene Wilder
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
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
2021
The Story of Late Night
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's My Name | Muhammad Ali
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
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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
Late Night with Seth Meyers
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
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
2011
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
2011
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
2010
Unforgettable
2010
Smash His Camera
2010
Celebrity Ghost Stories
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Childrens Hospital
2008
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008
Gossip Girl
2007
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
2007
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
2007
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
2007
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
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