| rdfs:comment | - In "Old Stan in the Mountain", Steve finds an aged Stan with a knife that Stan intended to stab Steve with after he believes he and Hayley are out to kill him on Mount Kilimanjaro. Steve misinterprets Stan's intentions and thinks he was out to whittle some wood and carves him a totem of five of the hosts of Family Feud including Richard Dawson, Ray Combs, Louie Anderson, Richard Karn and Steve Harvey but omitting John O'Hurley.
- In "Big Man on Hippocampus", Dawson hosts Family Feud on the original 1976 set, with the original music and rules, along with Dawson's practice of kissing the female contestants. The episode featured the Griffin Family going up against the Callaghan Family. Lois Griffin, well aware of his kindness, French kisses him. Peter and Dawson get into an argument over the game's rules, and Peter ends up being accidentally pushed through the podium as Dawson advises Peter that he served in the fictitious military. Dawson also appears as one of the panelists on The Match Game in "Mr. Saturday Knight".
- __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none Richard Dawson Real Name Unknown Job Titles Voice Actor First publication Unknown
- Richard Dawson (born Colin Lionel Emm on November 20, 1932; died June 2, 2012) was a British-born American Daytime Emmy award-winning actor, comedian, game show panelist and host. He was best known as a celebrity panelist of Match Game and the original host of Family Feud (until 1988 when he was then proceeded by Ray Combs, but then came back later in 1994). He Narrated TV's Funniest Game Shows for FOX in November 2000. His death came exactly 16 years after the death and suicide of Combs, his predecessor and successor.
- Richard Dawson (1932-2012) was an actor and an Emmy Award-winning game show host for his work as the original host of Family Feud (1976-1985). Prior to that, he was best known for playing Corporal Newkirk on the WWII sitcom Hogan's Heroes (1965-1971). Dawson appeared on Sesame Street as the host of "Family Food," a Sesame spoof of his popular show.
- He was born in Gosport, England as Colin Emm. At 14, he ran away from home, joining the Merchant Marine, where he took up a short career as a boxer. At 18, he auditioned for a small theatre company called the Barry O'Brien Players, where he discovered that he liked working on the stage. Two years later, he started performing as a stand-up comedian. During this time, he started to use the stage name Richard 'Dickie' Dawson, which he later changed to his legal name. He is more popular today, thanks to the reruns of both Hogan's Heroes and the original Family Feud.
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| abstract | - In "Old Stan in the Mountain", Steve finds an aged Stan with a knife that Stan intended to stab Steve with after he believes he and Hayley are out to kill him on Mount Kilimanjaro. Steve misinterprets Stan's intentions and thinks he was out to whittle some wood and carves him a totem of five of the hosts of Family Feud including Richard Dawson, Ray Combs, Louie Anderson, Richard Karn and Steve Harvey but omitting John O'Hurley.
- Richard Dawson (1932-2012) was an actor and an Emmy Award-winning game show host for his work as the original host of Family Feud (1976-1985). Prior to that, he was best known for playing Corporal Newkirk on the WWII sitcom Hogan's Heroes (1965-1971). Dawson appeared on Sesame Street as the host of "Family Food," a Sesame spoof of his popular show. In the 1970s, Dawson once appeared alongside Oscar the Grouch on Dinah Shore's talk show. On that show, guests stayed on the couch after their interviews were over. During the interview between Dinah and Oscar, the grouchy one heckled Dawson by asking "How are things on Hogan's Heroes?" Dawson responded with a long anecdote, which consumed the rest of Oscar's interview time. Dawson's other game show work included appearances as a regular panelist on Match Game, as well as hosting the short-lived Masquerade Party and appearances on I've Got a Secret. He was a regular on Laugh-In (1971-1973) and guest starred on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Jack Benny Program, The Outer Limits, The Love Boat, and The Odd Couple (as himself). His few film credits included a small part in The Longest Day and, in 1987, a meaty self-parodic performance in The Running Man (with Arnold Schwarzenegger) as devious game show host Damon Killian.
- In "Big Man on Hippocampus", Dawson hosts Family Feud on the original 1976 set, with the original music and rules, along with Dawson's practice of kissing the female contestants. The episode featured the Griffin Family going up against the Callaghan Family. Lois Griffin, well aware of his kindness, French kisses him. Peter and Dawson get into an argument over the game's rules, and Peter ends up being accidentally pushed through the podium as Dawson advises Peter that he served in the fictitious military. Dawson also appears as one of the panelists on The Match Game in "Mr. Saturday Knight".
- Richard Dawson (born Colin Lionel Emm on November 20, 1932; died June 2, 2012) was a British-born American Daytime Emmy award-winning actor, comedian, game show panelist and host. He was best known as a celebrity panelist of Match Game and the original host of Family Feud (until 1988 when he was then proceeded by Ray Combs, but then came back later in 1994). One of his trademarks, kissing all the female contestants, was one of the things that made Family Feud appear to be a warm and friendly program. He was nicknamed "The Kissing Bandit". He stopped this trademark gesture by announcing on the premiere of the 1994 version of Family Feud that he promised his daughter not to do it anymore. Richard became a US citizen in 1984. He Narrated TV's Funniest Game Shows for FOX in November 2000. His death came exactly 16 years after the death and suicide of Combs, his predecessor and successor.
- __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none Richard Dawson Real Name Unknown Job Titles Voice Actor First publication Unknown
- He was born in Gosport, England as Colin Emm. At 14, he ran away from home, joining the Merchant Marine, where he took up a short career as a boxer. At 18, he auditioned for a small theatre company called the Barry O'Brien Players, where he discovered that he liked working on the stage. Two years later, he started performing as a stand-up comedian. During this time, he started to use the stage name Richard 'Dickie' Dawson, which he later changed to his legal name. In the 1950s, he worked on the British stage, before appearing along with his new wife and British sex symbol, Diana Dors, on the The Diana Dors Show in 1959. Richard moved to the United States in the early 1960s. He started to appear in films, and on television shows, such as The Longest Day, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Outer Limits, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and King Rat, while also co-hosting a L.A. talk show and performing as a night club comedian. His appearance in King Rat lead to an audition as the lead character in the new Hogan Heroes television show. Richard was unable to sound American enough to play Colonel Hogan, but was instead given the role of Corporal Peter Newkirk. He played Newkirk for the next six years, along with appearing in the films, Munsters Go Home! and The Devil's Brigade, as well as trying his hand at script writing. It was reported that he slept only a few hours a day, while consuming vast quanities of coffee and cigarettes. After Hogan's Heroes went off the air, he appeared on such shows as Love American Style, The Odd Couple, McCloud, and McMillan and Wife, as well as becoming a regular cast member of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The New Dick Van Dyke Show and the game shows Match Game 73 and I've Got a Secret. He was also the host for the short-lived game show, Masquerade Party. Then, in 1976, he debuted as the host of the game show Family Feud, which soon became one of the most popular game shows in television history, and lead to Richard winning an Emmy. He hosted the show from 1976-85, being a very popular host, especially because of his habit of kissing the female contestants on the cheek during the show, although having some off-screen difficulities with the show's executive producer, Mark Goodson. While working on Family Feud, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen, actually showing his passport and photo during one of the episodes. He next appeared in the 1987 sci-fi film, The Running Man, where he plays the evil, egotistical, dark-sided game-show host Damon Killian, which was a self-parody. It was an outstanding performance. He next hosted an unsold pilot of the revival of the classic game show, You Bet Your Life in 1988. In 1994, he returned as the host of Family Feud, replacing Ray Combs. This lasted for a year. He then retired from acting, later refusing to become the host of the most recent incarnation of Family Feud. At one time, there was a rumor going around which claimed that Richard had committed suicide after his return as the host of Family Feud had ended in failure. In reality, Ray Combs, the show's second host, and the person whom Richard had replaced in 1994, was the person who had actually committed suicide (in 1996). Richard was living in Beverly Hills, California and is survived by his wife, Gretchen, whom he had met as a Family Feud contestant. He has three children, two by his first wife, the British actress, Diana Dors, whom he divorced in 1966 and has five grandchildren. He is more popular today, thanks to the reruns of both Hogan's Heroes and the original Family Feud. Richard Dawson died at the age of 79 from complications of Esophageal cancer on June 2, 2012, at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
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