Posted on 06/03/2012 8:28:37 AM PDT by kingattax
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.
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i enjoyed that movie...
The guy was a creep, so was Bob Crane, I couldn’t stand him, the way he flirted with wives and family members on Family Feud, good riddance, Let God sorted him out, or the devil for that matter. Perverts, the whole lot of them, Bob Crane reaped what he had sown.
Hyperbole much? He was being friendly to the female contestants. He didn’t force himself on them.
You and me, both. I was surprised when I read that he had died because I thought he’d committed suicide a few years back.
You're thinking of Ray Combs, he committed suicide.
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