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Dick Cavett

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.

Et billede af Dick Cavett

Actor

1960

[ ] The Hiding Place (????)

1969

[ ] Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show (Self)

1970

[ ] Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles (Self)

1971

[ ] Fight of the Century (Self-(Audience Member))
[ ] Festival at Ford's (Self)

1972

[ ] Cocksucker Blues (Self)
[ ] Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here (Self)
[ ] Hollywood: The Dream Factory (Narrator (voice))
[ ] Imagine (Self)

1973

[ ] Jimi Hendrix (Self (archive footage))
[ ] Nightside (Dick Cavett)

1974

[ ] Janis (????)

1975

[ ] Funny Girl to Funny Lady (Self)

1977

[ 5/10 ] Annie Hall (Dick Cavett)

1978

[ ] Power Play (Dick Cavett)
[ ] Hocus Pocus, It's Magic (Self - Host)

1979

[ ] Remember Me (Narrator)

1980

[ ] HealtH (Dick Cavett)
[ ] Simon (Himself)

1981

[ ] Dick Cavett Meets ABBA (Host)

1982

[ ] The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell (Self)
[ ] The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett (Self)

1986

[ ] Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce (Self)
[ ] Bye Bye Kipling (Self)

1987

[ 6/10 ] A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (Dick Cavett)
[ ] Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread (Dick Cavett)

1988

[ ] Moon Over Parador (Self)
[ ] Funny (Self)
[ ] After School (Himself)
[ ] Beetlejuice (Bernard)

1990

[ ] Night of 100 Stars III (Self)
[ ] Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies (Self)
[ ] Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous (Self)

1991

[ ] The One, the Only... Groucho (Self)
[ ] Year of the Gun (Ben Gershon)
[ ] The Fred Astaire Songbook (Self (archive footage))

1993

[ ] Barbarians at the Gate (Self)

1994

[ ] Forrest Gump (Dick Cavett)
[ ] Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage (Self (archive footage))

1997

[ ] Elvis Meets Nixon (Narrator)

1999

[ ] Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising (Narrator)

2000

[ ] Behind the Seams (Detective)
[ ] Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson (Narrator)
[ ] Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy (Self (archive footage))

2001

[ ] Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller (Self)

2003

[ ] The Education of Gore Vidal (Self (archive footage))
[ ] Jack Paar: Smart Television (Self)

2004

[ ] Celsius 41.11 (Self (archive footage))

2005

[ ] Duane Hopwood (????)
[ ] Frontier University Dreams (Narrator)
[ ] Inside Deep Throat (Self)

2006

[ ] The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks (Self)

2007

[ ] To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore (Himself)
[ ] Tension: Who's Guilty Now? (Self)
[ ] Decoy: A Map to Nowhere (Self)
[ ] Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie (????)
[ ] Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe (Self (archive footage))

2008

[ ] Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (Self (archive footage))

2010

[ ] Smash His Camera (Self)
[ ] Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves (Self)
[ ] Unforgettable (Self)

2011

[ ] Woody Allen: A Documentary (Self)
[ ] Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again (Self)

2012

[ ] Norman Mailer: The American (Self)
[ ] Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay (Narrator)
[ ] Driving Me Crazy (Mr. Johnson)
[ ] Excuse Me for Living (Reverend Pilatus)
[ ] Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel (Self (archive footage))

2013

[ ] David Bowie: Five Years (Self (archive footage))
[ ] Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' (Self - TV Host (archive footage))
[ ] Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (Self (archive footage))

2014

[ ] River of Fundament (Wake Guest)
[ ] A Venue For The End Of The World (Himself)
[ ] James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message (Self)
[ ] Dick Cavett's Watergate (Himself)
[ ] Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate (Self - Chat-Show Host)

2015

[ ] Best of Enemies (Self)
[ ] Janis: Little Girl Blue (Himself)
[ ] Listen to Me Marlon (Self (archive footage))
[ ] Dick Cavett's Vietnam (????)

2016

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

2017

[ ] On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone (????)
[ ] This Is Bob Hope... (Self)
[ ] Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America (Self)
[ ] Kyoko (Self (archive footage))

2018

[ ] Bergman: A Year in a Life (Self)
[ ] Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes (Self)
[ ] Nureyev (Self, Archive Footage)

2019

[ ] Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (Self (archive footage))
[ ] What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (Self)
[ ] Mike Wallace Is Here ((archive footage))
[ ] Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Self (archive footage))
[ ] Alan Pakula: Going for Truth (Self)
[ ] Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast (Self - TV Host (archive footage))

2021

[ ] Live at Mister Kelly's (Self)
[ ] The Capote Tapes (Self)
[ ] Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (Self - TV Host (archive footage))
[ ] Boulevard! A Hollywood Story (Self (archive footage))

2022

[ ] Lucy and Desi (Self (archive footage))
[ ] The Ghost of Richard Harris (Self)
[ ] Moonage Daydream (Self (archive footage))
[ ] 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (Self (archive footage))
[ ] Groucho & Cavett (Self)
[ ] Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (Self (archive footage))
[ ] Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue (Self (archive footage))

2023

[ ] The Lost Weekend: A Love Story (Self (archive footage))
[ ] Godard Cinema (Self (archive footage))
[ ] Godard by Godard (Self (archive footage))

2024

[ ] From Roger Moore with Love (Self)
[ ] Jim Henson Idea Man (Self (archive footage))
[ ] An American Family at 50 (Self)

2025

[ ] One to One: John & Yoko (Self (archive footage))
[ ] From Darkness to Light (Self (archive footage))
[ ] SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) (Self)
[ ] The New Yorker at 100 (Self (archive footage))
[ ] John Candy: I Like Me (Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage))

????

[ ] From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall (Self)
[ ] I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War (Self)

Writing

2018

[ ] Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes (Writer)