Dick Cavett

• Birthplace: Gibbon, Nebraska
• Birthday: November 19, 1936

Best known as "the thinking man's talk show host," two-time Emmy winner Dick Cavett has never attracted a wide audience or huge ratings, yet has parlayed a quick wit and acceptance by the top media pundits into a career as an interviewer, narrator, host of numerous TV specials and as a frequent supplier of voice-overs for TV commercials. The rise of the prematurely grey Cavett from Nebraska lad and Yale graduate to darling of the intelligentsia is one of legend--which he has oft told and promoted. While working as a copy boy at TIME magazine, C…more