The late Richard Dawson was born on November 20, 1932, and is well-known as a British-born American actor, comedian, game show host, and panelist in the United States. Dawson was well known for playing Corporal Peter Newkirk in Hogan’s Heroes, as a regular panelist on Match Game, and as the original host of Family Feud.
Richard Dawson’s cause of death: What happened to Richard Dawson?
Records had it that, Dawson died of complications from esophageal cancer at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles on June 2, 2012, at the age of 79. He is interred in Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles.
From our search, it was revealed that Dawson used to smoke almost four packs of cigarettes per day, and he was seen smoking on some episodes of Match Game, Family Feud, and Hogan’s Heroes. His daughter Shannon convinced him to stop smoking by 1994 when he was 61.
On June 7, 2012, GSN aired a four-hour marathon of Dawson’s greatest moments on Match Game and Family Feud, including the first episode of his 1994 to 1995 Feud tenure.
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