Dick Cavett
Richard Alva "Dick" Cavett ( born November 19, 1936 in Gibbon, Nebraska) is an American talk show host and actor. He became known in the 1960s and 70s with the moderated by him The Dick Cavett Show.
Life
Dick Cavett is the son of a teacher couple Eva (nee Richards ) and Alva B. Cavett. Cavetts mother died when the boy was ten years old. Already during his school years Cavett moderated a radio show that was broadcast every Saturday live. A classmate of his was the actress Sandy Dennis. In 1952, he joined St. Louis in the International Brotherhood of Magicians. Around the same time he met Johnny Carson. Cavett studied at Yale University and did various odd jobs. For the radio station of the University, WYBC, directed and played several plays and performed in Shakespeare productions, including in Stratford, Connecticut, on. In June 1964, Cavett married his fellow student Caroline Nye McGeoy. In the following years, he starred in several off-Broadway productions in New York, such as in the play The Trojan Women ( The Trojan Women ). However, other minor engagements in film productions brought Cavett no success. Finally, he worked as a gofer ( iwS gofer ) at Time magazine. There he came across an article about Jack Paar, who hosted Tonight Show at that time. Cavett began a few jokes and skits to write and competed at the RCA. There he met Jack Paar, who agreed, some of Cavetts skits incorporate into his show. Finally, Cavett got a job as a talent scout at the transmitter. During this activity Cavett became friends with Woody Allen. At the funeral of George S. Kaufman, a well-known stage and screenwriter who had written in the 1930s, some pieces for the Marx Brothers, Cavett met Groucho Marx. Some years later, Cavett should be presenter of Groucho's one-man show at Carnegie Hall.
In the 1960s, Cavett, who also speaks fluent German to work in the short term as a gag writer for Johnny Carson, who had just taken over the Tonight Show, but resigned to write for Jerry Lewis. 1964 Cavett returned in the wake of Groucho Marx on the Tonight Show, who was interim host there. The mid-1960s time guested Cavett also as a stand- up comedian in various night clubs in the New York's Greenwich Village and the legendary hungry i in San Francisco. He also wrote for Mel Brooks and Merv Griffin, as well as for the Ed Sullivan Show. In 1968 Cavett entered the The Dick Cavett Show for the first time in a separate, tailored to be talk show format which was aired in the next 30 years by numerous radio and TV stations such as ABC, CBS or PBS in prime time.
The interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono Dick Cavett Show in 1971 A detail was known. Thereof was used in a scene from the movie Forrest Gump, trick technically einmontiert in which Tom Hanks acted as additional talk show guest. Dick Cavett himself was a frequent guest at various shows such as Saturday Night Live, had cameo appearances in several films ( for example, Beetlejuice, 1988) and served as narrator in television and radio productions.