Sir Ralph Richardson on Motorbikes and His Parrot | The D**k Cavett Show

Sir Ralph Richardson discusses how he found his pet parrot and his love for motorbikes. Featuring British actor Sir John Gielgud. Date aired - April 28th 1971 - Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud For clip licensing opportunities please visit https://www.globalimageworks.com/the-d**k-cavett-show Subscribe for more D**k Cavett Show: https://bit.ly/3ao6ZNy D**k Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and D**k Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, D**k Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC. His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, D**k Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by D**k Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015. Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere. #thedickcavettshow #RalphRichardson #JohnGielgud

Added 6 Jul 2026