# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dick-cavett
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:03:58.832Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dick-cavett"
name: "Dick Cavett"
slug: "dick-cavett"
description: "Richard Alva Cavett is an American television personality, comedian and former talk show host. He appeared regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States from the 1960s through the 2000s."
tagline: "American talk show host (born 1936)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DickCavettApr10.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1936-11-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.795259879306989
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "richard.cavett.3"
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    title: "Кэвитт, Дик"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump