Dick Cavett

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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.

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2026
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
TV show Self - Talk Show Host
2025
John Candy: I Like Me
Movie Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
2025
The New Yorker at 100
Movie Self (archive footage)
2025
NASA, Nazis and the Space Race
Movie Self (archive footage)
2025
From Darkness to Light
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2025
One to One: John & Yoko
Movie Self (archive footage)
2025
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
Movie Self
2024
From Roger Moore with Love
Movie Self
2024
Group Therapy
Movie Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage)
2024
Jim Henson Idea Man
Movie Self (archive footage)
2024
Remembering Gene Wilder
Movie Self (archive footage)
2024
An American Family at 50
Movie Self
2023
Paul Newman: The Restless
Movie Self
2023
Godard Cinema
Movie Self (archive footage)
2023
Godard by Godard
Movie Self (archive footage)
2023
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Movie Self (archive footage)