He married one of his Family Feud contestants, Gretchen Johnson, who competed on the show in 1981. Dawson also played the host of a life-or-death game show in the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger film The Running Man. He returned to host the 1995 final season of the syndicated version. Dawson hit the game show jackpot when he became the host of Family Feud and gained a reputation for kissing the female guests “for luck and for love.” The network version aired from 1976 to 1985, and he won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1978 for best game show host. He also served as a panelist on the game show I’ve Got a Secret and subsequently on Match Game ’73 along with Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly. Dawson later was a regular on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In and The New Dick Van Dyke Show. Dawson, born in England and named Colin Lionel Emm, had a small role in The Dick Van Dyke Show but became famous in Hogan’s Heroes in which he played the pickpocketing POW Corporal Peter Newkirk. Dawson, 79, died in Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Los Angeles. His son Gary said on Facebook that Dawson “was surrounded by his family” when he died. Hogan's Heroes Cpl.Longtime Family Feud host Richard Dawson died Saturday of complications from esophageal cancer. But his presence couldn't lift the sagging ratings, and the show was quickly canceled. After several years, when Combs's version of Feud faltered, Dawson was brought back to host in 1994. Family Feud came back in 1988, but with Ray Combs as host. He filmed a pilot for a new You Bet Your Life in 1988 (which never sold), and for years Dawson didn't work much. When Feud was canceled, Dawson played a murderous game show host in The Running Man (1987) with Arnold Schwarzenegger. But Dawson's Family Feud remained hugely popular, with Dawson kissing grandmothers and asking inane questions on thousands of episodes until 1985. He was fired from Match Game in 1978 for perpetual grumpiness - a detriment when the show is supposed to be funny. Yet there were whispers that Dawson had become thoroughly unlikable when the cameras weren't rolling.
Dawson was famous for kissing the female contestants, and met his second wife, Gretchen Johnson, when she and her family were contestants on Family Feud. They set up Dawson as host of Family Feud, which became a huge hit. In the mid-1970s, Dawson was a consistent presence on The Match Game, a ribald celebrity quiz show, where he caught the producers' attention as a guy who could ad lib funny. When that show was cancelled, Dawson became a regular for the last two seasons of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Newkirk on Hogan's Heroes, America's lovable-Nazi sit-com, from 1965-1971. He came to America in the early 1960s, and had guest roles on The Jack Benny Program and The Dick Van Dyke Show.
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After three years in the Merchant Marine, Dawson studied drama, and eventually became a moderately successful cabaret and TV comedian in Britain.
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For a few years he made extra cash as an unsanctioned professional boxer. Remains: Buried, Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, CAĮxecutive summary: Host of Family Feud, 1976-85Īt 14, Richard Dawson ran away from home, lied about his age and joined the Merchant Marine.
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