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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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John Candy: I Like Me
NASA, Nazis and the Space Race
One to One: John & Yoko
The New Yorker at 100
Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)
Jim Henson Idea Man
An American Family at 50
From Roger Moore with Love
Group Therapy
Paul Newman: The Restless
Godard Cinema
Godard by Godard
Remembering Gene Wilder
Groucho & Cavett
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Moonage Daydream
Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Lucy and Desi
The Ghost of Richard Harris
My Guest is Orson Welles
Live at Mister Kelly's
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
The Capote Tapes
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
Mike Wallace Is Here
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
Bergman: A Year in a Life
Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast
Nureyev: Lifting the Curtain
This Is Bob Hope...
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Kyoko
On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Listen to Me Marlon
Dick Cavett's Vietnam
Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
Dick Cavett's Watergate
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate
A Venue for the End of the World
River of Fundament
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
David Bowie: Five Years
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Driving Me Crazy
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay
Excuse Me for Living
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again
Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves
Unforgettable
Smash His Camera
Norman Mailer: The American
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore- DEDecoy: A Map to Nowhere
- TETension: Who's Guilty Now?
- WHWhere Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story
Duane Hopwood
Frontier University Dreams
Inside Deep Throat
Celsius 41.11
Jack Paar: Smart Television
The Education of Gore Vidal
Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
Behind the Seams- ONOnce Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson
Frequency- SESell & Spin: A History of Advertising
Elvis Meets Nixon
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Forrest Gump
Barbarians at the Gate
Year of the Gun
The One, the Only... Groucho
The Fred Astaire Songbook
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
Night of 100 Stars III- SPSpy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous
Moon Over Parador
After School
Funny
Beetlejuice
Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Bye Bye Kipling
Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce
Koyaanisqatsi
The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell
Dick Cavett Meets ABBA
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Simon
Remember Me
Power Play- HOHocus Pocus, It's Magic
Annie Hall
Funny Girl to Funny Lady
Janis
Nightside
Jimi Hendrix
Imagine
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
The Rolling Stones: Cocksucker Blues- FEFestival at Ford's
Fight of the Century
Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place
From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War