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Three years later, both of his parents landed teaching positions in Lincoln, Nebraska, where Cavett completed his education at Capitol, Prescott, and Irving schools and Lincoln High School. When Cavett was ten, his mother died of cancer at age 36.
Dick Cavett was born on November 19, 1936, in Gibbon, Nebraska. His parents were schoolteachers and passed on their academic bent to their son, who also was a state gymnastics champion in...
Cavett pulled back the curtain on the sheer anarchy of hosting a myriad circus of rock stars, superstar athletes, ageing divas, and angry politicians, and he did so with grace and wit.
Dick Cavett is an American television personality, comedian and former talk show host notable for his conversational style and in-depth discussions. He appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in five consecutive decades, the 1960s through the 2000s.
He was born Richard Alva Cavett on November 19, 1936, in Gibbon, Nebraska, the son of two educators, Erabel "Era" (Richards) and Alva Bayard Cavett. After spending his childhood in Lincoln, Nebraska, he matriculated at Yale, where he first experienced the debilitating depression caused by bipolar disorder that would plague him though his adult ...
On a hot summer day in 1961, a young TV writer and aspiring comedian named Dick Cavett attended the funeral of George S. Kaufman, the renowned wit and man of letters. There he saw one of his...
Michael Schulman interviews the television host Dick Cavett, who discusses Muhammad Ali, Groucho Marx, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, and much more.
