Richard Dawson, a British-born actor who died last weekend, became familiar to millions of Americans with such TV sitcoms as Hogan's Heroes and the game show Family Feud.
Dawson death was reported online Sunday his son, Gary Dawson, who said his father died of complications from esophageal cancer Saturday night.
"He was surrounded by his family. He was an amazing talent, a loving husband, great father and a doting grandfather," Gary Dawson wrote.
Dawson, 79, was most famous role as Peter Newkirk, the RAF corporal with a cockney accent, which was one of the prisoners in Hogan's Heroes. 1960 TV show produced laughs from the group of Allied soldiers who bamboozle their captors in the Nazi German prison camp during World War II. The series ran from 1965 to 1971.
With phrases like "righto" and meet Col. Hogan and leader of the prisoners money played by Bob Crane as "gov'nor," Newkirk was often colorful straight man.
Newkirk: "Those bloody Krauts. They think of everything" Hogan ". Study how to win wars."
Dawson was best known to a younger generation that joking Family Feud host the first run of the 1976 to 1985. That part of the family den guess answers in surveys. Introductory lines of his show right answer became a national catchphrase: "The survey says ..."
Dawson won the daytime Emmy Award in 1978 for best game show host. Critic Tom Shale in 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."
Dawson was known for kissing female participants Feud is. One of them, Gretchen Johnson, who appears with his family in 1981, became his wife in 1991.
Dawson is survived by Gretchen and her daughter Shannon, and sons Gary and Mark from his previous marriage to British actress Diana Dors and four grandchildren. He was born Colin Lionel em in 1932 in Gosport, England.
Dawson death was reported online Sunday his son, Gary Dawson, who said his father died of complications from esophageal cancer Saturday night.
"He was surrounded by his family. He was an amazing talent, a loving husband, great father and a doting grandfather," Gary Dawson wrote.
Dawson, 79, was most famous role as Peter Newkirk, the RAF corporal with a cockney accent, which was one of the prisoners in Hogan's Heroes. 1960 TV show produced laughs from the group of Allied soldiers who bamboozle their captors in the Nazi German prison camp during World War II. The series ran from 1965 to 1971.
With phrases like "righto" and meet Col. Hogan and leader of the prisoners money played by Bob Crane as "gov'nor," Newkirk was often colorful straight man.
Newkirk: "Those bloody Krauts. They think of everything" Hogan ". Study how to win wars."
Dawson was best known to a younger generation that joking Family Feud host the first run of the 1976 to 1985. That part of the family den guess answers in surveys. Introductory lines of his show right answer became a national catchphrase: "The survey says ..."
Dawson won the daytime Emmy Award in 1978 for best game show host. Critic Tom Shale in 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."
Dawson was known for kissing female participants Feud is. One of them, Gretchen Johnson, who appears with his family in 1981, became his wife in 1991.
Dawson is survived by Gretchen and her daughter Shannon, and sons Gary and Mark from his previous marriage to British actress Diana Dors and four grandchildren. He was born Colin Lionel em in 1932 in Gosport, England.
