Biography
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.
Awards & recognition
- Evelyn F. Burkey Award · 2022
- Primetime Emmy Award · 1974
- Primetime Emmy Award · 1972
Filmography50+ titles
Forrest Gump
Gossip Girl
This Is Bob Hope...
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
The Simpsons
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Koyaanisqatsi
Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!
John Candy: I Like Me
Jim Henson: Idea Man
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Jimi Hendrix
The Odd Couple
Annie Hall
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Cheers
Moonage Daydream
The Ghost of Richard Harris
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Listen to Me Marlon
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
David Bowie: Five Years
Amazing Stories
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
What's My Name: Muhammad Ali
Bergman: A Year in a Life
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Beetlejuice
Nureyev
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Frequency
One to One: John & Yoko
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal
Lucy and Desi
It's Garry Shandling's Show.
Groucho & Cavett
Dick Cavett's Watergate
Norman Mailer: The American
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Childrens Hospital
Elvis Meets Nixon
Imagine
Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)
The New Yorker at 100
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
Smash His Camera
Saturday Night Live