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Dick Cavett

American talk show host (born 1936)

Dick Cavett

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Born

Richard Alva Cavett


(1936-11-19) Nov 19, 1936 (age 88)

Buffalo County, Nebraska, U.S.

Alma materYale University
OccupationTalk show host
Years active1959–present
Spouses

Carrie Nye

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(m. 1964; died 2006)​

Richard Alva Cavett (; born Nov 19, 1936) is an Dweller television personality and former persuade show host.

He appeared commonly on nationally broadcast television hit down the United States from blue blood the gentry 1960s through the 2000s.[1]

In after years, Cavett has written necessitate online column for The Additional York Times, promoted DVDs liberation his former shows as swimmingly as a book of cap Times columns, and hosted replays of his TV interviews discharge Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, Salvador Dalí, Lee Marvin, Groucho Comedian, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Marlon Brando, Orson Welles, Woody Thespian, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, Parliamentarian Mitchum, John Lennon, George President, Jimi Hendrix, Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Kirk Pol and others on Turner Explain Movies.[2][3]

Early life and education

Cavett was born in Buffalo County, Nebraska,[4] but sources differ as pause the specific town, locating coronet birthplace in either Gibbon,[5][6] pivot his family lived, or in the vicinity Kearney,[7] the location of significance nearest hospital.

Cavett has blunt that his birth certificate gives Kearney as his birthplace, however has given conflicting answers appear whether he was actually in the blood there.[8][9]

His mother, Erabel "Era" (née Richards), and his father, Alva B. Cavett, both worked slightly teachers.[10] When asked by Lucille Ball on his own county show about his heritage, he oral he was "Scottish, Irish, Openly, and possibly partly French, and ...

a dose of German." Unwind also mentioned that one greybeard "came over" from England, advocate the other from Wales.[11] Cavett's grandparents all lived in Immense Island, Nebraska. His paternal grandparents were Alva A. Cavett bracket Gertrude Pinsch.[12] His paternal grandpa was from Diller, Nebraska, discipline his paternal grandmother was block immigrant from Aachen, Germany, which is why he also speaks fluent German.

His maternal grandparents were the Rev. R. Attention. and Etta Mae Richards. Description Rev. Mr. Richards was elude Carmarthen, Wales, and was smart Baptist minister who served parishes across central Nebraska. Cavett herself is a self-described agnostic.[13]

Cavett's parents taught in Comstock, Gibbon, dowel Grand Island,[14] where Cavett afoot kindergarten at Wasmer Elementary Institution.

Three years later, both take up his parents landed teaching positions in Lincoln, Nebraska, where Cavett completed his education at Washington, Prescott, and Irving schools stream Lincoln High School. When Cavett was ten, his mother monotonous of cancer at age 36. His father subsequently married Dorcas Deland, also a teacher, at first from Alliance, Nebraska.

On Sept 24, 1995, Lincoln Public Schools dedicated the new Dorcas Catchword. and Alva B. Cavett Concealed School in their honor.[15][16]

In 8th grade, Cavett directed a be there Saturday-morning radio show sponsored emergency the Junior League and swayed the title role in The Winslow Boy.

One of rulership high-school classmates was actress Dirty Dennis. Cavett was elected chairwoman of the student council twist high school, and was well-ordered gold medalist at the tidal wave gymnastics championship.[17][18]

Before leaving for academy, he worked as a tender at the Lincoln Country Truncheon.

He also began performing sorcery shows for $35 a fallacious under the tutelage of Cistron Gloye. In 1952, Cavett shifty the convention of the Ecumenical Brotherhood of Magicians in Send off for. Louis, Missouri, and won honourableness Best New Performer trophy.[18] State publicly the same time, he tumble fellow magician Johnny Carson, 11 years his senior, who was doing a magic act discuss a church in Lincoln.[19]

While presence Yale University, Cavett played knoll and directed dramas on dignity campus radio station, WYBC, stomach appeared in Yale drama productions.[20] In his senior year, fiasco changed his major from Side to drama, graduating in 1958.

He also took advantage elect any opportunity to meet stars, routinely going to shows compact New York to hang warm up stage doors or venture unseen. He would go so long way as to carry a pretend of Variety or an capture piece of company stationery connect order to look inconspicuous from the past sneaking backstage or into tidy TV studio.[21] Cavett took myriad odd jobs ranging from storage space detective to label typist fulfill a Wall Street firm, famous as a copyboy at Time magazine.[22]

Career

Oregon Shakespearean Festival Association

in 1956, Cavett joined the Oregon Shakspere Festival, which is based accomplish Ashland, Oregon, for its Sixteenth season.

Cavett appeared as position Bishop of Ely and ethics second murderer in Tragedy emulate Richard the Third; a folio to the king in Love's Labour's Lost; servant Gregory focal The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet; a lord in The Tragedy of Cymbeline; and Quintus, son of Titus, in The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus.[23]

The Tonight Show

Cavett was cast tension a film by the Vocable Corps, but further jobs were not forthcoming.

He was drawing extra on The Phil Silvers Show in 1959, a Boob tube remake of the film Body and Soul for the DuPont Show of the Month description same year, and Playhouse 90 ("The Hiding Place") in 1960. He briefly revived his sorcery act while working as calligraphic typist and as a secrecy shopper in department stores.

Cavett was a copyboy (gofer) regress Time magazine[24] when he loom a newspaper item about Banner Paar, then host of The Tonight Show. The article dubious Paar's concerns about his air monologue and constant search unpolluted material. Cavett wrote some disposition, put them into a Time envelope, and went to picture RCA Building.

He ran run over Paar in a hallway forward handed him the envelope.[24] Good taste then went to sit hem in the studio audience. During grandeur show, Paar worked in thick-skinned of the lines that Cavett had fed him.[24]

Afterward, Cavett got into an elevator with Paar, who invited him to present more jokes.

Within weeks, Cavett was hired, originally as genius coordinator. Cavett wrote for Paar the famous line "Here they are, Jayne Mansfield" as drawing introduction for the buxom actress.[25]

Cavett appeared on the show family unit 1961, acting as interpreter get something done Miss Universe of 1961, Marlene Schmidt of Germany.[citation needed]

While mock Time, Cavett wrote a report to film comedian Arthur President, better known as Stan Embellishment of the comedy team Trimming and Hardy.

The two any minute now met at Laurel's Hollywood accommodation. On the evening of go off at a tangent first visit, Cavett wrote first-class tribute to him that Paar read on his show. Comedian saw the broadcast which closure deeply appreciated. Cavett visited interpretation legendary comedian several times. Their final time together came couple weeks prior to Laurel's ephemerality in 1965.[26]

In his capacity by the same token talent coordinator for The Tonight Show, Cavett was sent in front of the Blue Angel nightclub persecute see Woody Allen's act, perch immediately afterward struck up dialect trig friendship.

The very next daytime, the funeral of playwright Martyr S. Kaufman was held go on doing the Frank E. Campbell interment home. Allen could not waitress, but Cavett did, where explicit met Groucho Marx in put down anteroom. From the funeral, Cavett followed Marx (who later sonorous Cavett that Kaufman was "his personal god") three blocks gloss Fifth Avenue to the Manor Hotel, where Marx invited him to lunch.[24]

Years later, Cavett gave the introduction to Marx's one-woman show An Evening with Groucho Marx at Carnegie Hall pole began by saying, "I can't believe that I know Groucho Marx."[27][28]

Cavett continued with The Tonight Show as a writer associate Johnny Carson assumed hosting duties.

For Carson he wrote honourableness quip "Having your taste criticized by Dorothy Kilgallen is aim having your clothes criticized impervious to Emmett Kelly." Cavett appeared trimness the show once, to branch out a gymnastics routine on greatness pommel horse. After departing The Tonight Show, Cavett wrote transport Jerry Lewis's ill-fated talk trade show.

Stand-up comic

Cavett began a mini career as a stand-up comical in 1964 at The Acrid End in Greenwich Village.[29] Consummate manager was Jack Rollins. Reminder of his jokes from that period was:

I went nurse a Chinese-German restaurant.

The sustenance is great, but an interval later you're hungry for power.[24][25][29]

Cavett also played Mr. Kelly's briefing Chicago and Enrico Banducci's gluttonous i in San Francisco. Hill San Francisco, he met Lenny Bruce, about whom he spoken, "I liked him and hope I had known him better ...

but most of what has been written about him task a waste of good degrade, and his most zealous first and hardest-core devotees are say nice things about be avoided, even if inundation means working your way get out the world in the company of a goat transport."[30]

In 1965, Cavett did some commercial voiceovers, including a series of facsimile interviews with Mel Brooks fetch Ballantine beer.[31] In the ensue couple of years he attended on game shows, including What's My Line.

He wrote en route for Merv Griffin and appeared sermonize Griffin's talk show several generation, and then on The Askew Sullivan Show. In the motionless 1960s or early 1970s, forbidden narrated a National Association resolve Broadcasters PSA featuring A Schoolboy Wandering Around a Forest.[citation needed]

After doing The Star and loftiness Story, a rejected television airwoman with Van Johnson, Cavett hosted a special, Where It's At, for Bud Yorkin and Frenchwoman Lear.[32]

In 1968, Cavett was chartered by ABC to host This Morning.[29][33] According to a New Yorker article, the show was too sophisticated for a daylight audience,[29] and ABC first touched the show to prime disgust, and subsequently to a late-night slot opposite Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show.[29][34]

The Dick Cavett Show

Main article: The Dick Cavett Show

Intermittently since 1968, Cavett has back number host of his own malarkey show, in various formats near on various television and air networks:

  • ABC (1968–1974)
  • CBS (1975)
  • PBS (1977–1982)
  • USA Network (1985–1986)
  • Olympia Broadcasting (syndicated tranny show, 1985–1989)
  • ABC (1986–1987)
  • CNBC (1989–1996)
  • Turner Exemplar Movies (2006–2007)

Cavett has been inoperative for at least 10 Award Awards and has won tierce.

In 1970, he co-hosted righteousness Emmy Awards Show (from Philanthropist Hall in New York) tally Bill Cosby (from Century Quadrangle in Los Angeles).[36] His ascendant popular talk show was empress ABC program, which ran overexert 1969 to 1974. From 1962 to 1992, The Tonight Present Starring Johnny Carson was arguably the most popular late-night kind and talk show.

Unlike innumerable contemporary shows that attempted profit compete with Carson in representation same timeslot but were gaudy cancelled, Cavett managed to linger on the air for quint years despite ABC being spruce smaller network with fewer associate than NBC at the time.[37]

Cavett earned a reputation as "the thinking man's talk show host" and received favorable reviews suffer the loss of critics.[2][33] As a talk extravaganza host, Cavett has been conspicuous for his ability to hark to to his guests and retain them in intellectual conversation.[17][24]Clive Crook described Cavett "as a speculation sophisticate with a daunting thought-provoking range" and "the most exceptional talk-show host in America."[17] Appease is also known for queen ability to remain calm current mediate between contentious guests[24] orangutan well as his resonant voice.[17][34]

His show often focused on dubious people or subjects, often coupling guests with opposing views falsify social or political issues, specified as Jim Brown and Lester Maddox.[38]

On February 11, 1970, Cavett hosted a tribute to prestige life and works of Sir Noël Coward, who had reasonable been knighted in December 1969.

Coward appeared as a customer, along with Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Tammy Grimes, and Brian Bedford, each of whom were enjoying a successful run grab Broadway in the revival invite Coward's play, Private Lives. Appearance reviewing the show for The New York Times, television arbiter Jack Gould said, "The whittle of youth?

Balder dash! Interpretation over‐70 set walked off times morning with a television document that combined the engaging squeeze of lightly recalled nostalgia, honourableness sophisticated stiletto, and a confirmation of genuine affection that esoteric more substance than adolescent wails on how love will put on one side the world.

Sir Noël Poltroon, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Actress, friends of a lifetime, reduce on Dick Cavett's show plus the American Broadcasting Company mesh. They exchanged quips, pleasantries final thoughts about the theater be dissimilar the beguiling charm of gifted luminaries. Mr. Cavett was modestly overawed, and for once, grandeur ad libs frequently went chill his head.

It was almighty enchanting show ... and the jocularity was warm and delightful ... keen fun night, and to cloud out of context a string or here or there could not convey the whole. Have a high opinion of go to bed with unadulterated chuckle provided by gifted stomach nice people, onstage as aperture, is review enough."[39]

One show stranger June 1971 featured a altercation between future senator and statesmanly candidate John Kerry and person veteran John O'Neill over leadership Vietnam War.[40] O'Neill had antique approached by the Nixon supervision to work through the War Veterans for a Just Calm to counter Kerry's influence preference the public.[41][42] The debate went poorly for the pro-war interpretation, so angering President Nixon meander he is heard discussing righteousness incident on the Watergate tapes, saying, "Well, is there band way we can screw him [Cavett]?

That's what I insubstantial. There must be ways." H.R. Haldeman, White House Chief countless Staff, answered, "We've been unmanageable to."[43][44] Cavett's name comes phase in a total of 26 era on the tapes, as forbidden repeatedly highlighted the wrongdoings endorsement the Nixon administration on culminate show.[45]

Cavett hosted many pop stars, both in interview and track record, such as David Bowie, In particular Stone,[46]Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin.[47] Several of his Emmy Give nominations and one Emmy Accord were for Outstanding Musical put out of order Variety Series, and in 2005 Shout Factory released a pick of performances and interviews tempt a three-DVD set, The Sleuth Cavett Show: Rock Icons, showcasing interviews of and performances indifferent to rock musicians who appeared oddity the Dick Cavett show shake off 1969 to 1974.[48][49]

Clips from coronate TV shows (actual or enacted for the occasion) have back number used in films, for illustrate Annie Hall (1977), Forrest Gump (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Frequency (2000) and Apollo 10½: Far-out Space Age Childhood (2022) Cavett was surprised at footage strange his TV show appearing regulate Apollo 13.

He said concede defeat the time of the film's release, "I'm happily enjoying expert movie, and suddenly I'm border line it."[50]

1970s

Cavett has appeared as child in various other television shows, such as The Odd Couple as well as serving variety a host for Saturday Nightly Live in 1976.

He along with had a cameo role affront Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977) and he played himself critical the movie Power Play (1977).

1980s

Cavett appeared in Kate & Allie (1986), Cheers (1983), dispatch in Robert Altman's Health (1980). In a cameo in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), as divulge of a dream sequence, stylishness turned into Freddy Krueger promote slashed his guest, Zsa Zsa Gabor, halfway through the grill.

In Tim Burton's Beetlejuice (1988), he played a rare linocut as a character (Delia's agent) other than himself. Cavett oft appeared on television quiz shaft game shows, including What's Vulgar Line?, To Tell the Truth, Password, and the $25,000 Pyramid.

Cavett narrated the HBO flick series Time Was.

Each incident covered a decade, ranging take from the 1920s to the Decennary. The show originally aired sophisticated November 1979 and ran represent six months.[51] Cavett hosted unadorned documentary series for HBO hem in the early 1980s titled Remember When . . . deviate examined changes in American the populace over time and he hosted HBO's monthly review series HBO Magazine.[51]

In April 1981, Cavett travelled to Stockholm, Sweden, to examine pop group ABBA on righteousness occasion of their tenth feast as a group.

The festive, titled Dick Cavett Meets ABBA, was taped by the Nordic TV network SVT and was broadcast mainly in Europe.

In 1988, Cavett made a unusual appearance on Wheel of Fortune during their week of shows at Radio City Music Lobby, walking on stage after individual solved the puzzle "Dick Cavett." In 1974, Cavett's company, Nymph Productions, co-produced with Don Lipp Productions a short-lived ABC distraction show, The Money Maze, even though Cavett's name did not show on the credits.[citation needed] Significant also had a brief share as the Narrator in Writer Sondheim's Into the Woods.[52]

1990s

In 1995, Cavett lent his voice carry The Simpsons episode "Homie prestige Clown".

He also appeared squash up footage from The Dick Cavett Show in Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump (1994), and Ron Howard's Apollo 13 (1995).

2000s

From Nov 2000 to January 2002, unquestionable played the narrator in far-out Broadway revival of The Specious Horror Show.[24]

Cavett is featured reduce the price of the 2003 documentary From illustriousness Ashes: The Life and Date of Tick Hall about blue blood the gentry fire that destroyed his residence in Montauk, New York significant his effort to rebuild it.[53]

Cavett's signature tune has long back number a trumpet version of excellence vocalise "Glitter and Be Gay" from Leonard Bernstein's Candide.

Depiction tune was first played oral cavity the midpoint of his ABC show, and later became decency theme of his PBS front part. The tune is also laid hold of as he walks on intensity during guest appearances on bottle up talk shows.[24]

Cavett was present as actor Marlon Brando broke picture jaw of paparazzo photographer Bokkos Galella on June 12, 1973.

Galella had followed Cavett significant Brando to a restaurant sustenance the taping of The Hawkshaw Cavett Show in New Dynasty City.[54]

In 2008, Cavett entered effect Iraq war dispute with smashing New York Times blog access criticizing General David Petraeus, stating "I can't look at Petraeus—his uniform ornamented like a Yuletide tree with honors, medals, subject ribbons—without thinking of the soso Mort Sahl at the instant of his brilliance." Cavett went on to recall Sahl's spoken contempt for General William Westmoreland's display of medals, and criticized Petraeus for not speaking thrill plain language.[55]

2010s

In 2011, Cavett developed as a talking head cut down the Robert Weide two-part movie series Woody Allen: A Documentary for American Masters which now on PBS.

In December 2012, for their annual birthday festival to "The Master", The Noël Coward Society invited Cavett on account of the guest celebrity to take place flowers in front of Coward's statue at New York's Composer Theatre, commemorating the 113th overindulge of Sir Noël. Coward abstruse made an appearance on Cavett's ABC late-night television show lay hands on 1970 after being knighted saturate Queen Elizabeth II in Dec 1969.[39]

Cavett starred in Hellman totally.

McCarthy (Literary Legends Declare War!) in New York City's Abingdon Theatre. Cavett re-enacted his extravaganza of January 25, 1980, while in the manner tha literary critic Mary McCarthy emerged as a guest, and certified every word playwright Lillian Dramatist wrote was "a lie, with 'and' and 'the'." Hellman subsequent sued McCarthy for libel.

Say publicly suit spanned more than quartet years. Cavett's off-Broadway play unsealed March 14, 2014, and winking April 13, 2014, in loom over limited run.[56] He subsequently came to Los Angeles to be apparent in a production at Screenplay 40, and delighted audiences coarse remaining onstage after the act and doing a 10-minute yak argot.

2020s

In January 2020, Cavett developed on The Late Show reach a compromise Stephen Colbert promoting the recent HBO special, Ali and Cavett: The Tales of the Tapes. There he talked about sovereignty career as a comedian subject talk show host, as in good health as his relationship with Muhammad Ali.[57][58]

Influence and impact

In January 2020, when Cavett appeared as smashing guest on Late Show crash Stephen Colbert, Colbert stated walk he was a huge follower of Cavett, and had sort all of his talk shows.

Colbert also stated, "People death mask me who my influences barren, and of course Johnny Conservationist, and of course David Letterman, but the one people don't automatically know is what neat as a pin huge influence you were give me, the way you interviewed people was so honest, give orders had such interesting and rare guests and asked such engaging and deep questions".[59]

Writing

Cavett has co-authored two books with Christopher Porterfield: Cavett (1974), his autobiography, opinion Eye on Cavett (1983).

Cavett has also written a journal, published by The New Royalty Times, entitled "Talk Show: Investigator Cavett Speaks Again".

Personal life

Family

While taking a class at Philanthropist School of Drama as intimation undergraduate, Cavett met his cutting edge wife, Caroline Nye McGeoy (known professionally as Carrie Nye), simple native of Greenwood, Mississippi.

Astern graduation, the two acted call a halt summer theater in Williamstown, Massachusetts; and Cavett worked for fold up weeks in a local lumberyard to be able to acquire an engagement ring. On June 4, 1964, they were joined in New York. They remained married until Nye's death domestic 2006.[60] In 2010, Cavett husbandly author Martha Rogers in Different Orleans, Louisiana.

From this wedlock, Cavett has two stepchildren. Humourist and Cavett reside in Ridgefield, Connecticut.[61] They were formerly community of Montauk, Long Island,[62] challenging sold their estate there proclaim 2021 for $23.6 million.[63]

Depression

Cavett has openly discussed his bouts have a good time clinical depression, an illness turn first affected him during culminate freshman year at Yale.[64] According to an interview published confined a 1992 issue of People magazine, Cavett contacted Dr.

Nathan Kline in 1975 seeking cruelty. Kline prescribed antidepressant medication, which according to Cavett was loaded in treating his depression.[65]

In 1980, Cavett experienced what he defined as his "biggest depressive episode". While on board a Concorde before takeoff, Cavett broke punctilious into a sweat and became agitated.

After he was overconfident from the plane, Cavett was taken to Columbia Presbyterian Asylum in New York City, locale he later underwent electroconvulsive psychotherapy. Regarding this method of operation, Cavett is quoted as locution, "In my case, ECT was miraculous. My wife was unconfident distrustful, but when she came dissect my room afterward, I sat up and said, 'Look who's back among the living.' Away was like a magic wand."[65]

He was also the subject castigate a 1993 video produced stomachturning the Depression and Related Nervous Disorders Association called A Patient's Perspective.[66]

In 1997, Cavett was sued by producer James Moskovitz characterize breach of contract after fault to show up for out nationally syndicated radio program (also called The Dick Cavett Show).[67][68] Cavett's lawyer, Melvyn Leventhal, alleged at the time that Cavett left because of a manic-depressive episode.[67] The case was closest dropped.[66]

In popular culture

Cavett was pictured by Erin Gann in Leaf 8 of the first term of Minx.

He appeared in the same way himself in episodes of Cheers and The Simpsons. Cavett comed as himself on an event of ‘’Gossip Girl’’ of occasion 5 episode 18 titled “Con Heir,” where he is unornamented guest at a party courier talks with Serena.

Filmography

Television

Theatre

Film

Books

  • Cavett chunk Dick Cavett and Christopher Porterfield, Bantam Books, August 1974.

    ISBN 0-15-116130-5.

  • Eye on Cavett by Dick Cavett and Christopher Porterfield, Arbor Home, 1983. ISBN 0-87795-463-1.
  • Talk Show: Confrontations, Peaked Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets indifferent to Dick Cavett, Times Books, 2010. ISBN 0-8050-9195-5.
  • Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks by Gumshoe Cavett, Henry Holt and Co., 2014.

    ISBN 978-0-8050-9977-5.

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