Richard Alva Cavett

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Richard Alva Cavett was born on the 19th November 1936, in Gibbon, Nebraska USA, and is a Primetime-Emmy Award winning television host and actor, but still best known to the world for hosting his own “The Dick Cavett Show” from 1968 until 1991 in many forms and on many television stations, and also on radio stations. Cavett’s career started in 1959.

Have you ever wondered how rich Dick Cavett is, as of early 2017? According to authoritative sources it has been estimated that Cavett’s net worth is as high as $12 million, an amount earned through his successful career in the entertainment industry. Apart from hosting his own show and conducting numerous interviews with celebrities such as Katherine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Marlon Branod, Groucho Marx and John Lennon, among others, Dick has also a number of acting credits, including appearances in “Annie Hall” (1977), and “Beetlejuice” (1988).

Dick is of mixed heritage; he has Scottish, Irish, English, French and German roots. His father, Alva B. Cavett and his mother Erabel, were both educators. Because of their work, the whole family moved frequently, and Dick finished his high school in Lincoln, Nebraska, matriculating from Lincoln High School, after which he worked as a caddy at the Lincoln Country Club, while also starting to perform magic tricks, and soon met Johnny Carson, who later a became successful television host, and Dick was often a guest on his show.

Dick then enrolled at Yale University to study English, but in his senior year switched his studies to drama. While at university, Dick was active as actor and director, appearing in numerous Yale Drama productions. In order to support his education, Dick held numerous odd job positions too, including as copyboy at Time Magazine. This proved to be a good thing, once he saw an article in Time, in which is described Jack Paar’s struggle to come up with an opening monologue. He took one of the Time magazine envelopes and went to RCA Buidling, and wrote some jokes on a paper which he put into the envelope. A chance encounter with Paar had Dick giving him the envelope and jokes, and he watched the show from the audience stand. Paar used Dick’s writings which further led to Dick’s employment as a staff writer for the Tonight Show. His next venture was writing for “The Jerry Lewis Show” in 1963. Little by little, Dick’s name became more popular in the entertainment world, and in 1966 appeared in “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson”, and until 1991 made over 30 appearances. His net worth was well established.

In 1968 he was given his own “The Dick Cavett Show”, which firstly lasted until 1974, and then in 1975 was picked up by other television networks, and was aired until 1991. Also, his show had another installment, which lasted from 1989 until 1995, and from 2006 until 2007. During his show Dick would often interview some of the most notable people of the entertainment world, including Woody Allen, Robert Altman, David Bowie and many others which lifted the popularity of his show, which only increased his net worth.

Apart from hosting, Dick also ventured intofilms, and during the ‘70s appeared as himself in productions such as “Nightside” (1973), “Annie Hall” (1977), and “Power Play” (1978). In 1988 he portrayed Bernard in the Oscar Award- winning fantasy “Beetlejuice”, starring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis and Michael Keaton. His next notable appearance was in the Robert Zemeckis’ Oscar Award winning “Forrest Gump” (1994), starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. He stayed active as actor in the 2000s, and in 2005 had one of the lead roles in “Duane Hopwood”, next to Daisy Ang and Bill Buell. Most recently he had a part in the comedy “Before I Do”, which is yet to be released.

Dick is also an accomplished writer, and has published two books, including his autobiography “Cavett” (1974), and also writes a blog under the New York Times publication, entitled “Talk Show: Dick Cavett Speaks Again”. This also increased his net worth.

In his personal life, Dick has married twice, firstly to Carrie Nye from 1964 until her death in 2006, then to Martha Rogers since 2010.

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Richard Alva Cavett Quick Info

Full Name Dick Cavett
Net Worth $12 Million
Date Of Birth November 19, 1936
Place Of Birth Gibbon, Nebraska, USA
Height 1.68 m
Profession Television personality
Education Yale School of Drama, Yale University
Nationality American
Spouse Martha Rogers, Ph.D. (m. 2010), Carrie Nye (m. 1964–2006)
Parents Alva Cavett, Erabel Cavett
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0147118/
Awards Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy-Variety Or Music Program, Primetime Emmy Award for Special Classification Of Outstanding Program Achievement
Nominations Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing – Variety Series, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Program Achievement – Special Class
Movies Excuse Me for Living, Norman Mailer: The American, Duane Hopwood, Beetlejuice, The Dick Cavett Show, Time Was

Richard Alva Cavett Trademarks

  1. Distinctive raspy, gravelly voice

Richard Alva Cavett Quotes

  • At one point, I thought: I’m not so sure I want to become the poster boy for depression. But I still get mail about it, even today: ‘You saved my dad’s life.’ ‘You helped me acknowledge my own depression.’ ‘If Cavett can have this, then I guess it’s all right for me to.’…Depression is epidemic because it’s still so undiagnosed. And even my analyst made the mistake of saying to me – after I’d told him I wished he knew for a minute what my depression felt like – he said, ‘Oh, that’s all right, I was pretty low when my dad died.’ I sat up and said, ‘You think grief is even close to this?’ He apologized.
  • [on making President Richard Nixon angry] Well, apparently the White House was furious about a show I did with John Kerry and John O’Neill, debating the Vietnam War. That started it. Then, your friend and mine John Lennon asked if I’d come down to court and assert that he should not be deported by the Nixon administration. That really did it…You can even go to YouTube after lunch and listen to Nixon asking [Bob]Haldeman, ‘What can we do to screw Cavett?’ And years later, I learned from several members of my staff that he had used one of his favorite illegal hobbies and had the I.R.S. audit all of them, which was just hurting ‘the little people, in the words of ‘Joan Crawford (I)’ qv.
  • [re interviewing George Harrison] I remember saying to him, Yoko Ono sat in that chair.’ And he knew to jump out of it, horrified. And by the end of the show, he was as interesting as anyone I had met. If you can convince them that you’re not going to hurt them, that security led people to say: ‘I’ve never felt this good on a talk show. My God, I don’t know how you got me to talk about my abortion.’ And that was a man.
  • I remember being in a play once, and there were just 30 minutes left, and I thought, I don’t want this ever to end. It’s like being in a protective womb for a couple hours, then the poor actor has to go home.
  • [on writing for Johnny Carson] I was a starving actor. And I wanted to be a comic, I thought vaguely. But most of all, I wanted to be on a talk show – as a guest – and even if I’d done it only once, I could go back to Nebraska and say: I made it, just like Johnny, who left Nebraska 12 years before me…There were sides of Johnny that I didn’t know. But I know he was one of the unhappiest men in the world. But he loved me, so I felt good about him…Oh, God, he had a wretched mother. One time, Johnny wins some great prestigious award, and she says, ‘I guess they know what they’re doing’…She never encouraged him. And when I worked for him, there was an awful lot of tension. He was like a wire, a tight wire…And he had a wife on the ledge, and drinking troubles. His happiest hour was when he was out there on the set, and the rest of his life was really horrible.
  • I never missed a Jack Paar show until I made my ludicrously ballsy move and got myself hired by him. I was a copy boy for Time magazine, and someone left The Herald Tribune open on the copy boy desk, and I read Marie Torre’s column about Jack Paar. It said he worried more about his monologue than anything else. So I went home and typed one up, then took it to the bowels of the RCA Building and sneaked up to NBC. Of course, if there was security like there is now, I’d never be here today…So, here comes Jack Paar, walking out of the men’s room, and I had the wits to put the monologue in a Time magazine envelope, and that caught his eye. I hand it to him. ‘I wrote a monologue for you, Mr. Paar.’ ‘Oh yeah?’ he says. And I think that’s that for my monologue. But that night, he ad-libbed three of my lines on the show.
  • [on being a talk-show host] It’s a wonderful job for people who have never had a nervous breakdown and have always wanted one.
  • [on Stu Hample] He was a great appreciator of comedy. He was an extremely funny man. He could be funny in a good stand-up comedy way in your living room. or walking across the park. And he had a prodigious memory for comic literature and could quote whole routines — with the accuracy they deserved.
  • There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
  • I’m perplexed when people adopt the modish abbreviation “Ms.,” which doesn’t abbreviate anything except common sense.
  • Anyone who steals another comic’s material should be sentenced for life to reading Aristophanes to the O.J. [O.J. Simpson] jury.

Richard Alva Cavett Important Facts

  • Though they graduated one year apart from one another he and actress Sandy Dennis attended the same high school in Lincoln, Nebraska and were in plays together.
  • Jimmy Fallon wrote the foreword to Dick Cavett’s book “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks” which was published in 2014.
  • “The Dick Cavett Show” aired on 5 networks for over 35 years: ABC daytime (March 4, 1968-January 24, 1969) (originally titled This Morning) ABC prime time (May 26-September 19, 1969) ABC late night (December 29, 1969-January 1, 1975) CBS prime time (August 16-September 6, 1975) PBS (October 10, 1977-October 8, 1982) USA prime time (September 30, 1985-September 23, 1986) ABC late night (September 23-December 30, 1986) CNBC (April 17, 1989-January 26, 1996).
  • He appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: Annie Hall (1977) and Forrest Gump (1994).
  • Insisted that his surname is technically pronounced “CAY-vit”/”cave-it”, not as commonly “Cav-vet”.
  • Inducted into the Nebraska Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in 1991.
  • Appeared in the 1964 US Army “Big Picture” film, “Thayer of West Point” as a cadet enumerating the new rules that Superintendent Thayer was implementing, such as no valets or other servants to be employed by cadets.
  • Announced November 9, 2010, on Imus in the Morning, that he had married Martha Rogers “about a week ago in New Orleans”.
  • The segment of “Sgt Bilko” called “Bilko’s Godson” was his first appearance on TV. During an recent interview he recalled how during a break in the shooting, he approached Phil Silvers and said, “I know there’s no way you’d remember, but I saw you in (the Broadway show) “Top Banana” and went backstage and you gave me an autographed picture.” And without a moment’s hesitation Silvers replied “What’s the deal, kid, you here to give it back?”.
  • Was a gymnast when he was younger.
  • Grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska.
  • Suffered from manic-depressive disorder, since his freshman year at Yale University.
  • Early in his career he applied to be an page at NBC’s Rockefeller Center studio in New York City but was turned down.
  • Biography in: “Who’s Who in Comedy” by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 99. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
  • Was a talent coordinator for Jack Paar’s TV show. Appeared many times on talk shows as a stand-up comic.
  • Was an actor in army training films.
  • Born at 1:24am-CST

Richard Alva Cavett Filmography

Title Year Status Character Role
Playhouse 90 1960 TV Series Actor
The Phil Silvers Show 1959 TV Series Student in Front Row Actor
The Edge of Night 1956 TV Series Moe Everhardt (1983) Actor
Before I Do announced Jonathan Chance Actor
Childrens Hospital 2016 TV Series Dick Cavett Actor
River of Fundament 2014 Wake Guest Actor
Are We There Yet? 2012 TV Series Harold Bradlee Actor
Excuse Me for Living 2012 Reverend Pilatus Actor
Driving Me Crazy 2012 Mr. Johnson Actor
Duane Hopwood 2005 Fred Actor
The Yesterday Show with John Kerwin 2004 TV Series Actor
Behind the Seams 2000 Detective Actor
Elvis Meets Nixon 1997 TV Movie Narrator Actor
Good Money 1996 Doug Actor
Forrest Gump 1994 Dick Cavett Actor
Year of the Gun 1991 Ben Gershon Actor
True Blue 1990 TV Series Actor
Beetlejuice 1988 Bernard Actor
Invisible Thread 1987 TV Movie Actor
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors 1987 Dick Cavett Actor
Hotel 1984 TV Series Dick Cavett Actor
Parade of Stars 1983 TV Movie Fred Allen Actor
Power Play 1978 Dick Cavett Actor
Annie Hall 1977 Dick Cavett Actor
Feelin’ Good 1974 TV Series Host Actor
Nightside 1973 TV Movie Dick Cavett Actor
Alias Smith and Jones 1972 TV Series Sheriff Actor
Another World 1964 TV Series Oliver Twist (hypnotist / magician) (1988) Actor
The John Kerwin Show 2008 TV Series writer – 1 episode Writer
The Jerry Lewis Show TV Series 1 episode, 1963 writer – 5 episodes, 1963 Writer
The Tonight Show 1962 TV Series 1 episode Writer
Biography 1995 TV Series documentary photos – 1 episode Miscellaneous
Listen to Me Marlon 2015 Documentary thanks Thanks
Dick Cavett’s Watergate 2014 TV Movie and especially Thanks
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe 2007 Documentary thanks Thanks
Inside Deep Throat 2005 Documentary thanks Thanks
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler 1983 Video documentary acknowledgment: film and stills courtesy of Thanks
The Last Days of Edward Gorey Documentary post-production Himself Self
Talk Stoop with Cat Greenleaf 2011-2016 TV Series Himself Self
American Masters 2011-2016 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Joan Rivers: Exit Laughing 2016 Documentary Himself Self
Janis: Little Girl Blue 2015 Documentary Himself Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 2015 TV Series Himself Self
The Seventies 2015 TV Series documentary Himself – Host, ‘The Dick Cavett Show’ Self
Dick Cavett’s Vietnam 2015 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson 2010-2015 TV Series Himself Self
Best of Enemies 2015 Documentary Himself Self
A Venue for the End of the World 2014 Documentary Himself Self
Larry King Now 2014 TV Series Himself Self
Tom Green Live 2014 TV Series Himself – Guest Self
Hellman v. McCarthy 2014 TV Movie Himself Self
Dateline NBC 2014 TV Series documentary Himself – Guest Self
Dick Cavett’s Watergate 2014 TV Movie Himself Self
Park Bench with Steve Buscemi 2014 TV Series Himself Self
The Sixties 2014 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself Self
The Book of Saunders 2014 Documentary Himself Self
Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate 2014 TV Movie documentary Himself – Chat-Show Host Self
Imus in the Morning 2014 TV Series Himself – Phone Interview Self
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 2010-2014 TV Series Himself Self
Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin’ to Tell You 2013 Documentary Himself Self
Celebrity Ghost Stories 2012 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay 2012 Documentary Himself – Narrator (voice) Self
Woody Allen: A Documentary 2012 Documentary Himself Self
Gossip Girl 2012 TV Series Himself Self
Bored to Death 2011 TV Series Himself Self
That Is All 2011 Short Himself Self
Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again 2011 TV Movie Himself Self
Charlie Rose 2001-2011 TV Series Himself – Guest / Himself Self
Bobby Fischer Against the World 2011 Documentary Himself Self
Tavis Smiley 2006-2010 TV Series Himself Self
Nixon’s the One: The ’68 Election 2010 Documentary Narrator Self
Norman Mailer: The American 2010 Documentary Self
The Battle for Late Night 2010 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Unforgettable 2010 Documentary Himself Self
Smash His Camera 2010 Documentary Himself Self
In the House with Peter Bart & Peter Guber 2009 TV Series Self
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel 2009 Documentary Himself: TV Talk Show Host Self
Make ‘Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America 2009 TV Series documentary Himself – Talk Show Host Self
James Brown: The Man, the Music, & the Message 2008 Video documentary Himself Self
Pioneers of Television 2008 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself Self
To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore 2007 Documentary Himself Self
Decoy: A Map to Nowhere 2007 Video short Himself Self
Tension: Who’s Guilty Now? 2007 Video short Himself Self
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie 2007 Video documentary short Himself Self
48 Hours 2007 TV Series documentary Himself Self
The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks 2006 TV Movie Himself Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live! 2006 TV Series Himself Self
Cavett Backstage 2006 Video documentary short Himself Self
Cavett Remembers the Comic Legends 2006 Video documentary short Himself Self
Cavett and the Lennons 2005 Video documentary short Himself Self
Larry King Live 2005 TV Series Himself Self
NewsNight with Aaron Brown 2005 TV Series Himself Self
Cavett Meets The Rolling Stones 2005 Video short Himself Self
Cavett Remembers Ray 2005 Video documentary short Himself Self
Inside Deep Throat 2005 Documentary Himself Self
The Dick Cavett Interview 2005 Video short Himself Self
Jack Paar: Smart Television 2003 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show 2002 Video documentary Himself Self
Long Island’s Lighthouses 2001 TV Movie documentary Narrator Self
ESPN SportsCentury 2001 TV Series documentary Himself Self
The 55th Annual Tony Awards 2001 TV Special Himself – Presenter: The Rocky Horror Show Self
Bravo Profiles 2001 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leroy Anderson 2000 TV Movie documentary Himself – Narrator Self
Frequency 2000 Himself Self
NY TV: By the People Who Made It – Part I & II 1998 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Lauren Hutton and… 1996 TV Series Himself Self
The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll 1995 TV Series documentary Himself Self
The Dick Cavett Show 1989-1995 TV Series Himself – Host Self
The Simpsons 1995 TV Series Himself Self
Biography 1995 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Late Night with Conan O’Brien 1993-1994 TV Series Himself Self
Barbarians at the Gate 1993 TV Movie Himself Self
The One, the Only… Groucho 1991 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Newton’s Apple 1991 TV Series Himself Self
The Dick Cavett Show 1975-1991 TV Series Himself – Host Self
The 12th Annual CableACE Awards 1991 TV Special Himself – Winner Self
The Howard Stern Show 1990 TV Series Himself Self
Night of 100 Stars III 1990 TV Movie Himself Self
The New Hollywood Squares 1988-1989 TV Series Himself – Panelist Self
The Pat Sajak Show 1989 TV Series Himself Self
Wheel of Fortune 1988 TV Series Himself – Special Guest Self
Imagine: John Lennon 1988 Documentary Himself Self
Moon Over Parador 1988 Himself Self
After School 1988 Himself Self
Super Password 1987-1988 TV Series Himself – Celebrity Contestant Self
The $10,000 Pyramid 1976-1988 TV Series Himself Self
Funny 1988 Documentary Himself Self
College Bowl 1987 TV Series Host Self
The Dick Cavett Show 1986 TV Series Himself – Host Self
Bodywatch 1986 TV Series Himself Self
Late Night with David Letterman 1982-1986 TV Series Himself Self
Amazing Stories 1986 TV Series Himself Self
Kate & Allie 1986 TV Series Himself Self
Bye Bye Kipling 1986 TV Movie Himself Self
Doctor Duck’s Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce 1986 Video Himself – Player Self
Faces of Japan 1986 TV Series documentary Host (1986-1987) Self
Harry Belafonte in Concert 1985 TV Special Himself Self
Bob Hope Buys NBC? 1985 TV Special Himself Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson 1966-1984 TV Series Himself – Guest / Himself / Himself – Guest Host Self
Super Birthday: A World’s Fair Salute to Bob Hope 1984 TV Movie Himself Self
Cheers 1983 TV Series Himself Self
Saturday Night Live 1976-1983 TV Series Himself – Host / Himself Self
The 35th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards 1983 TV Special Himself – Presenter: Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program Self
Tom Cottle: Up Close 1982-1983 TV Series Himself Self
Dick Cavett Behind the Scenes with John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John 1983 TV Movie Himself – Host Self
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell 1982 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
Catch a Rising Star’s 10th Anniversary 1982 TV Special Himself Self
Yesteryear 1982 TV Series documentary Himself – Host Self
Acting: Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio 1981 Documentary Himself Self
Remember When… 1981 TV Series Himself Self
Rich and Famous 1981 Himself (uncredited) Self
HealtH 1980 Himself Self
Simon 1980 Himself Self
Time Was… 1979-1980 TV Series documentary Himself – Host Self
All My Children 1979 TV Series Himself Self
Hollywood Greats 1979 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Dick Cavett und… 1978-1979 TV Series Himself / Himself – Host Self
The Annual Friars Club Tribute Presents a Salute to Johnny Carson 1979 TV Movie Himself Self
Dinah! 1974-1978 TV Series Himself / Himself – Guest Self
Hocus Pocus, It’s Magic 1978 TV Movie Himself – Host Self
Good Morning America 1977 TV Series Himself Self
Live from Lincoln Center 1976 TV Series Himself – Host Self
The Mike Douglas Show 1967-1976 TV Series Himself – TV Talk Show Host / Himself – TV Personality / Himself Self
Backlot USA 1976 TV Movie Himself – Host Self
Funny Girl to Funny Lady 1975 TV Special documentary Himself / Interviewer / Presenter Self
The Odd Couple 1975 TV Series Himself Self
The Dick Cavett Show 1968-1974 TV Series Himself – Host Self
Janis 1974 Documentary Himself Self
Parkinson 1972-1974 TV Series Himself – Interviewer / Himself Self
Cocksucker Blues 1972 Documentary Himself Self
Imagine 1972 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
VD Blues 1972 TV Movie Himself – Host Self
John & Yoko in Syracuse, New York 1972 TV Short documentary Himself Self
Laugh-In 1972 TV Series Himself Self
Hollywood: The Dream Factory 1972 TV Movie documentary Himself – Narrator (voice) Self
Plimpton! Did You Hear the One About? 1971 TV Movie documentary Himself Self
The 25th Annual Tony Awards 1971 TV Special Himself – Presenter Self
Fight of the Century 1971 TV Movie Himself – Audience Member Self
The Most Deadly Game 1971 TV Series Himself Self
The Kraft Music Hall 1967-1970 TV Series Himself Self
The Joe Namath Show 1969 TV Series Himself Self
This Is Tom Jones 1969 TV Series documentary Himself Self
Operation: Entertainment 1968 TV Series Himself – Host Self
To Tell the Truth 1967 TV Series Himself – Guest Panelist Self
What’s My Line? 1966-1967 TV Series Himself – Panelist Self
The Ed Sullivan Show 1966 TV Series Himself Self
ABC Stage 67 1966 TV Series Himself – Host Self
The Merv Griffin Show 1965 TV Series Himself Self
The Steve Allen Plymouth Show 1958 TV Series Himself Self
Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown 2016 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago 2016 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
The Seventies 2015 TV Series documentary Himself – Host, ‘The Dick Cavett Show’ Archive Footage
Inside Edition 2015 TV Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
Listen to Me Marlon 2015 Documentary Himself (uncredited) Archive Footage
Pawn Sacrifice 2014 Himself (uncredited) Archive Footage
Altman 2014 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
Entertainment Tonight 2014 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
American Masters 2000-2013 TV Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
Crossfire Hurricane 2012 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel 2011 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
Ebert Presents: At the Movies 2011 TV Series Himself – Host, ‘The Dick Cavett Show’ Archive Footage
Cinema Verite 2011 TV Movie Himself Archive Footage
The Harmony Game 2011 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
The Age of Aquarius: The New Left and the Counterculture 2010 Short Himself Archive Footage
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy 2010 Video documentary Himself Archive Footage
Muppets 201: Rarities from the Henson Vault 2009 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
Shine a Light 2008 Documentary Himself (uncredited) Archive Footage
Pioneers of Television 2008 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired 2008 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe 2007 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
Brando 2007 TV Movie documentary Himself (uncredited) Archive Footage
Anita O’Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer 2007 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
The U.S. vs. John Lennon 2006 Documentary Himself (uncredited) Archive Footage
Stardust: The Bette Davis Story 2006 TV Movie documentary Himself Archive Footage
The Fight 2004 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
Celsius 41.11: The Temperature at Which the Brain… Begins to Die 2004 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry 2004 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
Brian Williams Reports: John Kerry: Bringing the War Home 2004 Documentary Himself Archive Footage
MythBusters 2003 TV Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
Heroes of Magic 2000 TV Special documentary Archive Footage
Biography 1994-2000 TV Series documentary Himself Archive Footage
Mo’ Funny: Black Comedy in America 1993 TV Special documentary Himself Archive Footage
Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson 1993 TV Movie documentary Himself Archive Footage
Great Performances 1991 TV Series Himself Archive Footage
Crosby, Stills & Nash: Long Time Comin’ 1990 Video documentary Himself Archive Footage
Inside Story 1989 TV Series documentary Himself – Host, Dick Cavett Show Archive Footage
It’s Garry Shandling’s Show. 1986 TV Series Himself Archive Footage

Richard Alva Cavett Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie Category
1974 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual Achievement The Dick Cavett Show (1968) Won
1972 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Variety Series – Talk The Dick Cavett Show (1968) Won
1974 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual Achievement The Dick Cavett Show (1968) Nominated
1972 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Variety Series – Talk The Dick Cavett Show (1968) Nominated