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Richard Dawson has passed away at 79.
Ben Richards: Killian! I'll be back!Richard Dawson, the charming actor and Emmy-winning host of Family Feud, one of television's most popular game shows, died Saturday night at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. He was 79.
Dawson played cockney Brit Peter Newkirk on the classic CBS sitcom Hogan's Heroes from 1965 to 1971 and parodied his TV persona as the snarky bad guy in Stephen King's 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger action film The Running Man. He also was a regular on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in the early 1970s.
Damon Killian: Only in a rerun.
Damon Killian: There are still two stalkers out there. Dynamo and Fireball. Who do you think will make the next kill?
Elderly Lady: Oh my. That's a tough one.
Damon Killian: Come on, Agnes. You can do it. Who do you think?
Elderly Lady: Alright, I think the next kill will be made by... Ben Richards.
Damon Killian: No, no. Agnes, Richards is a runner. You have to pick a stalker.
Elderly Lady: I can pick anyone I choose. And I choose... Ben Richards. That boy is one mean **********er.
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Could have sworn he already died.
I agree. I thought he died back in the 90's.Originally Posted by BCreviews4628
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There was one other Family Fued host that took his own life. Ray Combs (sp?). Are you thinking of him?
I like the Family Feud.
Thank you Mr. Dawson.
Nope. I knew about Combs. His was suicide. I thought Dawson died shortly before.
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Actually, Dawson came back and hosted the Feud again at some point after Combs death (that was actually when I learned that he was the original host of the show, since I mainly had only ever seen the version with Ray Combs prior to that).
It's sad that he died as it is when anyone died, though I can't say that I was ever a major fan of his. I had nothing against him, but I outside of briefly seeing him during his return to Family Feud, I never saw much (to my knowledge) that he was ever on/involved in. I never watched Hogans Heroes. But it's sad for him, his family, friends, and his fans.
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He was pretty known for doing Warner Brothers cartoon voice overs- in many cases where he went un-credited sadly.
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msn.com:
'Family Feud' TV host Richard Dawson dies at 79
June 3, 2012, 10:03 AM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Richard Dawson, the wisecracking British entertainer who was among the schemers in the 1960s TV comedy "Hogan's Heroes" and a decade later began kissing thousands of female contestants as host of the game show "Family Feud" has died. He was 79.
Dawson, also known to TV fans as the Cockney prisoner-of-war Cpl. Peter Newkirk on "Hogan's Heroes," died Saturday night from complications related to esophageal cancer at Ronald Reagan Memorial Hospital, his son Gary said.
The game show, which initially ran from 1976 to 1985, pitted families who tried to guess the most popular answers to poll questions such as "What do people give up when they go on a diet?"
Dawson won a daytime Emmy Award in 1978 as best TV game show host. Tom Shales of The Washington Post called him "the fastest, brightest and most beguilingly caustic interlocutor since the late great Groucho bantered and parried on `You Bet Your Life.'" The show was so popular it was released as both daytime and syndicated evening versions.
He was known for kissing each woman contestant, and at the time the show bowed out in 1985, executive producer Howard Felsher estimated that Dawson had kissed "somewhere in the vicinity of 20,000."
"I kissed them for luck and love, that's all," Dawson said at the time.
He reprised his game show character in a much darker mood in the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger film "The Running Man," playing the host of a deadly TV show set in a totalitarian future, where convicts try to escape as their executioners stalk them. "Saturday Night Live" mocked him in the 1970s, with Bill Murray portraying him as leering and nasty, even slapping one contestant (John Belushi) for getting too fresh.
The British-born actor already had gained fame as the fast-talking Newkirk in "Hogan's Heroes," the CBS comedy about prisoners in a Nazi POW camp who hoodwink their captors and run the place themselves.
Despite its unlikely premise, the show made the ratings top 10 in its first season, 1965-66, and ran until 1971.
Both "Hogan's Heroes" and "Family Feud" have had a second life in recent years, the former on DVD reissues and the latter on cable television's GSN, formerly known as the Game Show Network.
On Dawson's last "Family Feud" in 1985, the studio audience honored him with a standing ovation, and he responded: "Please sit down. I have to do at least 30 minutes of fun and laughter and you make me want to cry."
"I've had the most incredible luck in my career," he told viewers.
"I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them," he said. That triggered an unexpected laugh.
Producers brought out "The New Family Feud," starring comedian Ray Combs, in 1988. Six years later, Dawson replaced Combs at the helm, but that lasted only one season.
According to the Internet Movie Database, Dawson was born Colin Lionel Emm in 1932 in Gosport, England. His first wife was actress Diana Dors, the blond bombshell who was Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe.
He always seemed like a pervert to me kissing all the women on the feud.
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I know, right? That was superb casting since everyone knows him as a game show host.
BAZINGO! YOU ARE CORRECT SIR!He always seemed like a pervert to me kissing all the women on the feud.
when i got home from work yesterday, i saw that GSN had a few hours of family feud. then i found out that none of them were richard dawson episodes. i was disappointed.
The old GSN, the one still focused on real game shows, not ones based on things like the bible, would have started a richard dawson marathon the day after... did they?
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i didn't realize there was more than one GSN.
i found out there will be a richard dawson marathon on GSN tomorrow, june 7, from 7pm - 11pm, eastern. they will air episodes of both family feud and match game.
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