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I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

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Dick Cavett
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 19
Actor
Artistic Gymnast
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Screenwriter
Television Presenter
Writer
Gibbon
Nebraska
Richard Alva Cavett
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