Basic Information About Dick Cavett
Category | Celebrities βΊ Actors |
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Professions | Comedian, Screenwriter, Actor, Voice Actor, Presenter |
Net worth | $60,000,000 |
Date of birth | 1936-11-19 (87 years old) |
Place of birth | Gibbon |
Nationality | United States of America |
Curiosities and Trademarks | Distinctive raspy, gravelly voice Comb-over hairstyle |
Gender | Male |
Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
Social Media | βοΈ Wikipedia βοΈ IMDb |
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What Movie Awards did Dick Cavett win?
Oscar |
Golden Globe |
Golder Raspberry |
BAFTA |
Other |
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
Dick Cavett awards
Award Name | State | Movie / Series Name | Year |
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Primetime Emmy - Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual Achievement | Nominee | The Dick Cavett Show | 1975 |
Primetime Emmy - Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual Achievement | Winner | The Dick Cavett Show | 1974 |
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Variety Musical Series | Nominee | The Dick Cavett Show | 1973 |
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Variety Series - Talk | Winner | The Dick Cavett Show | 1972 |
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Variety Series - Talk | Nominee | The Dick Cavett Show | 1971 |
Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Variety or Musical Series | Nominee | The Dick Cavett Show | 1970 |
Dick Cavett roles
Movie / Series | Role |
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Forrest Gump | Dick Cavett |
Annie Hall | Dick Cavett |
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Dick Cavett |
Beetle Juice | Bernard |
Frequency | Self |
Koyaanisqatsi | Self - On TV (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Pawn Sacrifice | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
I Am Not Your Negro | Self (archive footage) |
Gossip Girl | Self 1 episode, 2012 |
The Simpsons | Self 1 episode, 1995 |
Saturday Night Live | Self - Host / ... 2 episodes, 1976-1983 |
All My Children | Dick Cavett 1 episode, 1979 |
The Story of Late Night | Self 2 episodes, 2021 |
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self 1 episode, 2020 |
Are We There Yet? | Harold Bradlee 1 episode, 2012 |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self - Guest 1 episode, 2015 |
The Carol Burnett Show | Self 1 episode, 1971 |
CBS News Sunday Morning | Self 1 episode, 2017 |
Amazing Stories | Dick Cavett 1 episode, 1986 |
Childrens Hospital | Dick Cavett 1 episode, 2016 |
Wheel of Fortune | Self - Special Guest 1 episode, 1988 |
The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Host 365 episodes, 1968-1986 |
Another World | Oliver Twist (hypnotist / ... unknown episodes |
Laugh-In | Guest Performer 2 episodes, 1972-1973 |
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | Self - Guest 1 episode, 2017 |
Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest 3 episodes, 1993-1994 |
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Self - Guest 3 episodes, 2010-2014 |
Dick Cavett's Movie/Shows Salary
Movie / Series | Salary |
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The Merv Griffin ShowΒ (1962) | $460 / week |
Dick Cavett's Quotes
- Anyone who steals another comic's material should be sentenced for life to reading Aristophanes to the O.J. [O.J. Simpson] jury.
- I'm perplexed when people adopt the modish abbreviation "Ms.," which doesn't abbreviate anything except common sense.
- There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
- [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.
- [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.
Interesting Facts about Dick Cavett
- Born at 1:24am-CST
- Was an actor in army training films.
- Was a talent coordinator, and later writer, for Jack Paar's TV show. Appeared many times on talk shows as a stand-up comic.
- Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith. Pg. 99. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387
- Early in his career he applied to be a page at NBC's Rockefeller Center studio in New York City but was turned down.
- Suffered from manic-depressive disorder, since his freshman year at Yale University.
- Grew up in Lincoln, NE.
- Was a gymnast when he was younger.
- The Phil Silvers Show: Bilko's Godson (1959) 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?".
- Announced November 9, 2010, on the "Imus in the Morning" radio show with Don Imus, that he had married Martha Rogers "about a week ago in New Orleans".
- 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.
- Inducted into the Nebraska Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in 1991.
- Insisted that the proper/technical way to pronounce his surname is "CAY-vit"/"cave-it", not "Cav-vet" as it commonly is.
- He appeared in two Best Picture Academy Award winners: Annie Hall (1977) and Forrest Gump (1994).
- The Dick Cavett Show (1968) aired on five networks for over 35 years: (1) ABC daytime (March 4, 1968-January 24, 1969) (originally titled "This Morning"); (2) ABC prime time (May 26-September 19, 1969); (3) ABC late night (December 29, 1969-January 1, 1975); (4) CBS prime time (August 16-September 6, 1975); (5) PBS (October 10, 1977-October 8, 1982); (6) USA prime time (September 30, 1985-September 23, 1986); (7) ABC late night (September 23-December 30, 1986)' (8) CNBC (April 17, 1989-January 26, 1996).
- Jimmy Fallon wrote the foreword to Cavett's book "Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks" which was published in 2014.
- Though they graduated one year apart from one another, he and Sandy Dennis attended the same high school in Lincoln, NE, and were in plays together.
- Is of German, Welsh, English, Scottish, and distant Irish, descent.
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- Date taken: Press release is not dated but refers to Paar beginning his own show starting on 8 January. Paar's program began in January 1973 and continued for a year.
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- Date taken: 20 October 1968
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- Date taken: October 1971
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- Date taken: 31 January 2008