Dick Cavett: movies and TV shows
Dick Cavett has 160 credits in the archive: 126 films and 34 TV series, from 1958 to 2026. Highest rated: Forrest Gump (8.5/10).
Career timeline
1958 – 2026 · busiest year: 2019 (7 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! | Self - Talk Show Host | TV | 7.9 | 89 |
| 2025 | John Candy: I Like Me | Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage) | Film | 7.8 | 88 |
| 2025 | One to One: John & Yoko | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 88 |
| 2025 | From Darkness to Light | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.7 | 88 |
| 2025 | The New Yorker at 100 | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.9 | 88 |
| 2025 | SLY LIVES! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) | Self | Film | 6.9 | 88 |
| 2024 | Jim Henson Idea Man | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.9 | 87 |
| 2024 | Group Therapy | Self - Host, The Dick Cavett Show (archive footage) | Film | 7.8 | 87 |
| 2024 | An American Family at 50 | Self | Film | — | 87 |
| 2024 | Remembering Gene Wilder | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 87 |
| 2024 | From Roger Moore with Love | Self | Film | 8.0 | 87 |
| 2023 | Godard by Godard | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.8 | 86 |
| 2023 | Paul Newman: The Restless | Self | Film | 7.7 | 86 |
| 2023 | Godard Cinema | Self (archive footage) | Film | 5.5 | 86 |
| 2023 | The Lost Weekend: A Love Story | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 86 |
| 2022 | Groucho & Cavett | Self | Film | 7.0 | 85 |
| 2022 | Moonage Daydream | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.5 | 85 |
| 2022 | Lucy and Desi | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.1 | 85 |
| 2022 | 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.2 | 85 |
| 2022 | Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 85 |
| 2022 | The Ghost of Richard Harris | Self | Film | 7.5 | 85 |
| 2022 | Joni Mitchell, Lady Blue | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 85 |
| 2021 | 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.5 | 84 |
| 2021 | The Story of Late Night | Self | TV | 6.6 | 84 |
| 2021 | Live at Mister Kelly's | Self | Film | — | 84 |
| 2021 | Boulevard! A Hollywood Story | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.2 | 84 |
| 2021 | My Guest is Orson Welles | Film | — | 84 | |
| 2021 | The Capote Tapes | Self | Film | 5.9 | 84 |
| 2021 | Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation | Self - TV Host (archive footage) | Film | 2.5 | 84 |
| 2019 | What's My Name | Muhammad Ali | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.4 | 82 |
| 2019 | Alan Pakula: Going for Truth | Self | Film | 6.5 | 82 |
| 2019 | Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast | Self - TV Host (archive footage) | Film | 5.0 | 82 |
| 2019 | Mike Wallace Is Here | (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 82 |
| 2019 | Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.6 | 82 |
| 2019 | Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.5 | 82 |
| 2019 | What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael | Self | Film | 6.7 | 82 |
| 2018 | Bergman: A Year in a Life | Self | Film | 7.4 | 81 |
| 2018 | Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes | Self | Film | 7.2 | 81 |
| 2018 | Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes | Film | 7.2 | 81 | |
| 2018 | Nureyev | Self, Archive Footage | Film | 7.3 | 81 |
| 2017 | This Is Bob Hope... | Self | Film | 8.0 | 80 |
| 2017 | Kyoko | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.0 | 80 |
| 2017 | Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America | Self | Film | 6.0 | 80 |
| 2017 | On the Sly: In Search of the Family Stone | Film | 7.0 | 80 | |
| 2016 | All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone | Self | Film | 7.4 | 79 |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self - Guest | TV | 6.1 | 78 |
| 2015 | Listen to Me Marlon | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.5 | 78 |
| 2015 | Janis: Little Girl Blue | Himself | Film | 7.3 | 78 |
| 2015 | Best of Enemies | Self | Film | 7.2 | 78 |
| 2015 | Dick Cavett's Vietnam | Film | 7.0 | 78 | |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | TV | 5.1 | 77 |
| 2014 | River of Fundament | Wake Guest | Film | 5.9 | 77 |
| 2014 | Dick Cavett's Watergate | Himself | Film | 7.0 | 77 |
| 2014 | A Venue For The End Of The World | Himself | Film | 6.0 | 77 |
| 2014 | Katharine Hepburn: The Great Kate | Self - Chat-Show Host | Film | 6.5 | 77 |
| 2014 | James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message | Self | Film | 8.0 | 77 |
| 2013 | Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.7 | 76 |
| 2013 | David Bowie: Five Years | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.5 | 76 |
| 2013 | Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin' | Self - TV Host (archive footage) | Film | 7.5 | 76 |
| 2012 | Excuse Me for Living | Reverend Pilatus | Film | 4.2 | 75 |
| 2012 | Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 75 |
| 2012 | Driving Me Crazy | Mr. Johnson | Film | — | 75 |
| 2012 | Norman Mailer: The American | Self | Film | 7.0 | 75 |
| 2012 | Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay | Narrator | Film | 6.9 | 75 |
| 2011 | George Harrison: Living in the Material World | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.6 | 74 |
| 2011 | Woody Allen: A Documentary | Self | Film | 6.9 | 74 |
| 2011 | Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again | Self | Film | 7.9 | 74 |
| 2010 | Smash His Camera | Self | Film | 6.9 | 73 |
| 2010 | Unforgettable | Self | Film | 5.0 | 73 |
| 2010 | Simon & Garfunkel: Across the Airwaves | Self | Film | — | 73 |
| 2009 | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | Self - Guest | TV | 5.0 | 72 |
| 2009 | Celebrity Ghost Stories | Self | TV | 7.3 | 72 |
| 2008 | Childrens Hospital | Dick Cavett | TV | 6.9 | 71 |
| 2008 | Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.3 | 71 |
| 2007 | Gossip Girl | Self | TV | 8.2 | 70 |
| 2007 | To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore | Self | Film | 4.0 | 70 |
| 2007 | Tension: Who's Guilty Now? | Self | Film | — | 70 |
| 2007 | Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie | Film | — | 70 | |
| 2007 | Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe | Self (archive footage) | Film | 4.8 | 70 |
| 2007 | Decoy: A Map to Nowhere | Self | Film | — | 70 |
| 2006 | Stardust: The Bette Davis Story | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.7 | 69 |
| 2006 | The Dick Cavett Show with Mel Brooks | Self | Film | — | 69 |
| 2005 | Inside Deep Throat | Self | Film | 6.4 | 68 |
| 2005 | Frontier University Dreams | Narrator | Film | — | 68 |
| 2005 | Duane Hopwood | Film | 5.8 | 68 | |
| 2004 | Celsius 41.11 | Self (archive footage) | Film | 5.5 | 67 |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self - Guest | TV | 5.3 | 66 |
| 2003 | The Education of Gore Vidal | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.7 | 66 |
| 2003 | Jack Paar: Smart Television | Self | Film | 8.0 | 66 |
| 2001 | Bravo Profiles: Penn and Teller | Self | Film | — | 64 |
| 2000 | Frequency | Himself | Film | 7.3 | 63 |
| 2000 | Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 63 |
| 2000 | Behind the Seams | Detective | Film | 10.0 | 63 |
| 2000 | Once Upon a Sleigh Ride: The Music & Life of Leon Anderson | Narrator | Film | — | 63 |
| 1999 | Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising | Narrator | Film | 10.0 | 62 |
| 1997 | Elvis Meets Nixon | Narrator | Film | 7.0 | 60 |
| 1994 | Forrest Gump | Dick Cavett | Film | 8.5 | 57 |
| 1994 | Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage | Self (archive footage) | Film | 9.0 | 57 |
| 1993 | Barbarians at the Gate | Self | Film | 6.9 | 56 |
| 1991 | Year of the Gun | Ben Gershon | Film | 4.9 | 54 |
| 1991 | The One, the Only... Groucho | Self | Film | 10.0 | 54 |
| 1991 | The Fred Astaire Songbook | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 54 |
| 1990 | Night of 100 Stars III | Self | Film | 4.0 | 53 |
| 1990 | Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies | Self | Film | — | 53 |
| 1990 | Spy Magazine Presents How to Be Famous | Self | Film | — | 53 |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Dick Cavett (voice) | TV | 8.0 | 52 |
| 1988 | Beetlejuice | Bernard | Film | 7.4 | 51 |
| 1988 | Moon Over Parador | Self | Film | 5.9 | 51 |
| 1988 | Funny | Self | Film | 8.0 | 51 |
| 1988 | After School | Himself | Film | 2.6 | 51 |
| 1987 | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Dick Cavett | Film | 6.7 | 50 |
| 1987 | Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread | Dick Cavett | Film | 6.5 | 50 |
| 1986 | It's Garry Shandling's Show | Self (archive footage) (audio) (uncredited) | TV | 7.1 | 49 |
| 1986 | Bye Bye Kipling | Self | Film | — | 49 |
| 1986 | Doctor Duck's Super Secret All-Purpose Sauce | Self | Film | 6.3 | 49 |
| 1985 | Amazing Stories | Dick Cavett | TV | 7.5 | 48 |
| 1983 | Koyaanisqatsi | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.9 | 46 |
| 1982 | Late Night with David Letterman | Self - Guest | TV | 6.1 | 45 |
| 1982 | Cheers | Himself | TV | 7.6 | 45 |
| 1982 | Hotel | TV | 6.8 | 45 | |
| 1982 | Yesteryear | Self - Host | TV | — | 45 |
| 1982 | The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell | Self | Film | 9.0 | 45 |
| 1982 | The Video Wine Guide with Dick Cavett | Self | Film | — | 45 |
| 1981 | Dick Cavett Meets ABBA | Host | Film | — | 44 |
| 1981 | Remember When | Self - Host | TV | — | 44 |
| 1980 | HealtH | Dick Cavett | Film | 5.4 | 43 |
| 1980 | Simon | Himself | Film | 6.3 | 43 |
| 1979 | Time Was | Self - Host | TV | — | 42 |
| 1979 | Remember Me | Narrator | Film | 8.0 | 42 |
| 1978 | Power Play | Dick Cavett | Film | 7.2 | 41 |
| 1978 | Hocus Pocus, It's Magic | Self - Host | Film | — | 41 |
| 1977 | Annie Hall | Dick Cavett | Film | 7.7 | 40 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self (uncredited) | TV | 6.9 | 38 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | TV | 6.9 | 38 |
| 1975 | Funny Girl to Funny Lady | Self | Film | 6.0 | 38 |
| 1974 | Dinah! | Self | TV | 7.0 | 37 |
| 1974 | Janis | Film | 7.6 | 37 | |
| 1973 | Nightside | Dick Cavett | Film | 10.0 | 36 |
| 1973 | Jimi Hendrix | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.8 | 36 |
| 1972 | Imagine | Self | Film | 7.1 | 35 |
| 1972 | Cocksucker Blues | Self | Film | 5.8 | 35 |
| 1972 | Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here | Self | Film | 6.0 | 35 |
| 1972 | Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Narrator (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 35 |
| 1971 | Alias Smith and Jones | TV | 7.0 | 34 | |
| 1971 | Fight of the Century | Self-(Audience Member) | Film | — | 34 |
| 1971 | Festival at Ford's | Self | Film | — | 34 |
| 1970 | The Odd Couple | Dick Cavett | TV | 7.8 | 33 |
| 1970 | Friars Club Roast of Don Rickles | Self | Film | — | 33 |
| 1969 | This Is Tom Jones | Self | TV | 6.7 | 32 |
| 1969 | Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show | Self | Film | 8.0 | 32 |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Host | TV | 6.8 | 31 |
| 1968 | Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In | Self | TV | 6.8 | 31 |
| 1967 | The Phil Donahue Show | Self | TV | — | 30 |
| 1966 | ABC Stage 67 | Self - Host | TV | 6.8 | 29 |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | TV | 7.5 | 25 |
| 1962 | The Merv Griffin Show | Self | TV | 6.6 | 25 |
| 1960 | Playhouse 90: The Hiding Place | Film | — | 23 | |
| 1958 | Kraft Music Hall | Self | TV | 5.4 | 21 |
| From the Ashes: The Life and Times of Tick Hall | Self | Film | — | — | |
| I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War | Self | Film | — | — |