Richard Dawson
Richard Dawson
Richard Dawsonwas a British-born American actor and comedian, and a game show host and panelist in the United States. Dawson was well known for playing Corporal Peter Newkirk on Hogan's Heroes, being the original host of the Family Feud game show from 1976-85, and from 1994–95, and a regular panelist on the 1970s version of Match Game on CBS from 1973-78. In 1984, he became an American citizen while retaining his British citizenship...
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth20 November 1932
CityGosport, England
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The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.
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Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.
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I'm a hustler. I'm a smartass, but I love people.
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I've had the most incredible luck in my career. I've done lots and lots of jobs, and I've never, ever had a job like Family Feud. I've never dreamed I would ever have a job where so many people could touch me and I could touch them. And it was a great magic about this show that I've never seen on any other show.
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ABC has told me that a sponsor has complained about my making anti-Nixon jokes. I would just like to say that I believe Mr. Nixon did his best to destroy this country.
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Jack's a real good guy and he runs me clean and I run him clean. There was a lot of lapped traffic out there tonight. It seemed to always be in the way. But that's a part of racing. They pay their money just as much as everybody else.
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I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
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I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.
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God bless all the little children in the world.
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I've had the most incredible luck in my career,
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I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.
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There were people I know that got upset that I kiss people. I kiss them for luck and love, that's all. That's what my mother did to me.
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About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.
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It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy but when I first came here Petula Clark was on a show with Nat King Cole and he kissed her on the cheek and eighty-one stations in the South canceled him. I kissed black women daily and nightly on 'Family Feud' and the world didn't come to an end, did it?