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Dick Cavett
Known for: ActingRichard 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 53
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Host 
Beetlejuice
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as Bernard 
Jim Henson Idea Man
as Self (archive footage) 
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (archive footage) 
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
as Self (archive footage) 
Inside Deep Throat
as Self 
The Story of Late Night
as Self 
What's My Name | Muhammad Ali
as Self (archive footage) 
Koyaanisqatsi
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as Self (archive footage) 
Janis: Little Girl Blue
as Himself 
Moonage Daydream
+4
as Self (archive footage) 
One to One: John & Yoko
as Self (archive footage) 
Year of the Gun
as Ben Gershon 
Bergman: A Year in a Life
as Self 
Moon Over Parador
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as Self 
Listen to Me Marlon
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited) 
Woody Allen: A Documentary
as Self 
After School
as Himself 
NASA, Nazis and the Space Race
as Self (archive footage) 
Paul Newman: The Restless
as Self (archive footage) 
Godard Cinema
as Self (archive footage) 
From Roger Moore with Love
as Self 
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
as Self (archive footage) 
Lucy and Desi
as Self (archive footage) 
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
as Self (archive footage) 
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
+4
as Self 
Jimi Hendrix
+1
as Self (archive footage) 
Best of Enemies
+1
as Self 
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
+3
as Self (archive footage) 
Live at Mister Kelly's
+1
as Self 
The Ghost of Richard Harris
as Self 
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
as Self (archive footage) 
Excuse Me for Living
as Reverend Pilatus 
Imagine
as Self 
Dick Cavett's Watergate
as Himself 
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
as Self (archive footage) 
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
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as Self - TV Host (archive footage) 
Smash His Camera
+1
as Self 
The Capote Tapes
as Self 
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
+2
as Self (archive footage) 
This Is Bob Hope...
+1
as Self 
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
as Self (archive footage) 
Simon
as Himself 
Group Therapy
as Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage) 
Groucho & Cavett
as Self 
Unforgettable
as Self 
Norman Mailer: The American
as Self 
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
as Self (archive footage)