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.
123 movies · 33 shows
John Candy: I Like Me
2025·7.9
The New Yorker at 100
2025·6.9
From Darkness to Light
2025·6.7
One to One: John & Yoko
2025·7.2
SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)
2025·6.9
From Roger Moore with Love
2024·8.0
Group Therapy
2024·7.8
Jim Henson Idea Man
2024·7.9
Remembering Gene Wilder
2024·7.2
An American Family at 50
2024·0.0
Paul Newman: The Restless
2023·7.7
Godard Cinema
2023·5.5
Godard by Godard
2023·7.8
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023·7.0
Groucho & Cavett
2022·7.0
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022·8.2
Moonage Daydream
2022·7.5
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022·6.5
The Ghost of Richard Harris
2022·7.5
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
2022·0.0
Lucy and Desi
2022·7.1
My Guest is Orson Welles
2021·0.0
Live at Mister Kelly's
2021·0.0
The Capote Tapes
2021·5.9
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
2021·6.2
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
2021·2.5
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
2019·6.5
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
2019·7.6
Mike Wallace Is Here
2019·6.5
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2019·7.5
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019·6.7
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
2019·5.0
Nureyev
2018·7.3
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
2018·7.2
Bergman: A Year in a Life
2018·7.4
This Is Bob Hope...
2017·8.0
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017·6.0
Kyoko
2017·6.0
On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
2017·7.0
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016·7.4
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015·7.3
Best of Enemies
2015·7.2
Listen to Me Marlon
2015·7.5
Dick Cavett's Vietnam
2015·7.0
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
2014·8.0
A Venue For The End Of The World
2014·6.0
Dick Cavett's Watergate
2014·7.0
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
2014·6.5
River of Fundament
2014·5.9
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013·7.5
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
2013·7.7
David Bowie: Five Years
2013·7.5
Excuse Me for Living
2012·4.2
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
2012·6.9
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
2012·7.0
Norman Mailer: The American
2012·7.0
Driving Me Crazy
2012·0.0
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011·6.9
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
2011·7.9
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
2010·0.0
Unforgettable
2010·5.0
Smash His Camera
2010·6.9
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2008·6.3
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore
2007·4.0
Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
2007·0.0
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
2007·0.0
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
2007·0.0
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
2007·4.8
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
2006·0.0
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
2006·6.6
Duane Hopwood
2005·5.8
Frontier University Dreams
2005·0.0
Inside Deep Throat
2005·6.4
Celsius 41.11
2004·5.5
Jack Paar: Smart Television
2003·8.0
The Education of Gore Vidal
2003·8.7
Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller
2001·0.0
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
2000·7.0
Behind the Seams
2000·10.0
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson
2000·0.0
Frequency
2000·7.3
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising
1999·10.0
Elvis Meets Nixon
1997·7.0
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994·9.0
Forrest Gump
1994·8.5
Barbarians at the Gate
1993·6.9
Year of the Gun
1991·4.9
The One, the Only... Groucho
1991·10.0
The Fred Astaire Songbook
1991·0.0
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990·0.0
Night of 100 Stars III
1990·4.0
Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
1990·0.0
Moon Over Parador
1988·5.9
After School
1988·2.6
Funny
1988·8.0
Beetlejuice
1988·7.4
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
1987·6.5
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987·6.7
Bye Bye Kipling
1986·0.0
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
1986·6.3
Koyaanisqatsi
1983·7.9
The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett
1982·0.0
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
1982·9.0
Dick Cavett Meets ABBA
1981·0.0
HealtH
1980·5.4
Simon
1980·6.3
Remember Me
1979·8.0
Power Play
1978·7.2
Hocus Pocus, It's Magic
1978·0.0
Annie Hall
1977·7.7
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
1975·6.0
Janis
1974·7.6
Jimi Hendrix
1973·7.8
Nightside
1973·10.0
Imagine
1972·7.1
Cocksucker Blues
1972·5.8
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972·6.0
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972·7.3
Festival at Ford's
1971·0.0
Fight of the Century
1971·0.0
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
1970·0.0
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
1969·8.0
Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place
1960·0.0