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Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.

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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
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Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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