FrameThrower · Actors · Dick Cavett
Dick Cavett
4 films · 267 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1982–2025
Born 19 November 1936 · Gibbon, Nebraska, USA
Richard Alva Cavett is an American television personality and former talk show host. He appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States for five decades, from the 1960s through the 2000s.
In later years, Cavett has written an online column for The New York Times, promoted DVDs of his former shows as well as a book of his Times columns, and hosted replays of his TV interviews with Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, Salvador Dalí, Lee Marvin, Groucho Marx, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Marlon Brando, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Mitchum, John Lennon, George Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Kirk Douglas and others on Turner Classic Movies.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 267 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1982–2025
- Evelyn F. Burkey Award2022
How their films are shot
Measured across 267 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Dick takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 43% of their frames are night, 46% natural — the look of the work Dick takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 267 frames from Dick Cavett's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.