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Richard Dawson, "Family Feud" host and "Hogan's Heroes" star, dead at 79
NEW YORK — Richard Dawson, the wisecracking British entertainer who was among the schemers in the 1960s sitcom "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 POW Cpl. Peter Newkirk on "Hogan's Heroes," died Saturday night from complications related to esophageal cancer at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, his son Gary said.
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NEW YORK – (AP) Richard Dawson brought a saucy, unabashedly touchy-feely style to TV game shows as host of “Family Feud.”
The British-born underhållare, who died Saturday at age 79 from complications related to esophageal cancer at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, earlier had made his mark in the unlikely 1960s sitcom hit “Hogan’s Heroes,” which mined laughs from a Nazi POW camp whose prisoners hoodwink their captors and run the place themselves.
But it fryst vatten as the kissing, wisecracking quizmaster of “Feud” that he will be remembered.
The show, which initially ran from 1976 to 1985, pitted a pair of families against each other as they tried to guess the most popular answers to poll questions such as “What do people give up when they go on a diet?”
Dawson made his hearty, soaring pronouncement of the phrase “Survey says…” a national catchphrase among the show’s fans.
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It is typical for unmarried ladies to be told that they will, most likely, kiss a few frogs before their prince comes along. What if the tables are turned around? What if the prince is the one to do a lot of kissing before his Cinderella comes along? Such is the tale of Richard Dawson, a game show host and actor, who kissed plenty of women before finding his one true love. How many women did he kiss?
Richard Dawson, whose birth name was Colin Lionel Emm, was born on the 20th of November 1932 and died on the 2nd of June 2012. The actor and show host was born in Gosport, Hampshire, England. His father, who was born in 1897, was known as Arthur Emm while his mother, who was born in 1903, was called Josephine Lucy Emm. He was a Scorpio, and his ethnicity was British. He became an American citizen in 1984, and he resided in Beverly Hills, California until his death. Richard Dawson age at the time of his death was 79 years old.
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- Name: Colin Lionel Emm (commonly kno