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Title: Richard Dawson Dead at 80
Post by: obumazombie on June 03, 2012, 05:25:35 PM
Richard Dawson, Dead at 80.
I really enjoyed his work.
Sad to see him go, I hope he is at peace.
Anyone have them in their dead pool ?
Title: Re: Richard Dawson Dead at 80
Post by: Kyle Ricky on June 03, 2012, 05:28:48 PM
I never really watched the original Family Feud. So I didn't know who he was until I looked him up.
Title: Re: Richard Dawson Dead at 80
Post by: Chris_ on June 03, 2012, 05:29:44 PM
I'm surprised he was only 80 (and still alive).
Title: Re: Richard Dawson Dead at 80
Post by: obumazombie on June 03, 2012, 05:33:49 PM
I'm surprised he was only 80 (and still alive).
1932 to 2012
Title: Re: Richard Dawson Dead at 80
Post by: obumazombie on June 03, 2012, 05:34:20 PM
I never really watched the original Family Feud. So I didn't know who he was until I looked him up.
Hogan's Heroes
The Running Man
Title: Re: Richard Dawson Dead at 80
Post by: Kyle Ricky on June 03, 2012, 05:39:45 PM
Hogan's Heroes
The Running Man

I didn't know he played in Hogans Heroes. I loved that show. I will have to look it up and watch a couple of episodes. 
Title: Re: Richard Dawson Dead at 80
Post by: redwhit on June 03, 2012, 06:13:29 PM
Hogan's Heroes
The Running Man

He was great in Running Man.  For some reason I thought he had died a couple years ago. 
Title: Re: Richard Dawson Dead at 80
Post by: ExGeeEye on June 03, 2012, 06:38:25 PM
Honestly, I had him in my "already dead" pool.

This happens from time to time-- I'll hear about so-and-so being sick, and my first thought wil be "well good for them, I thought they'd been dead for years."
Title: Re: Richard Dawson Dead at 80
Post by: Freeper on June 03, 2012, 06:42:13 PM
Wow I thought he was born earlier than 1932, and I thought surely he had been dead. RIP Mr Dawson, I enjoyed Hogan's Heroes.
Title: Re: Richard Dawson Dead at 80
Post by: Airwolf on June 03, 2012, 09:46:32 PM
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTFkqCEYON8[/youtube]

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1IKcQqIb5o[/youtube]
Title: Re: Richard Dawson Dead at 80
Post by: EdwardSpacer on June 04, 2012, 12:03:14 AM
He will be.missed.
wat,hed hogans heroes as a.kid.
Title: Re: Richard Dawson Dead at 80
Post by: Eupher on June 04, 2012, 10:59:30 AM
Yeah, I enjoyed Hogan's Heroes as a kid as well, though the portrayal of German soldiers as being complete imbeciles was fairly stupid itself.

Later, during his hosting of "Family Feud", his habit of insisting on a liplock with the female contestants was a little over the top.
Title: Re: Richard Dawson Dead at 80
Post by: thundley4 on June 04, 2012, 11:23:10 AM
Yeah, I enjoyed Hogan's Heroes as a kid as well, though the portrayal of German soldiers as being complete imbeciles was fairly stupid itself.

Later, during his hosting of "Family Feud", his habit of insisting on a liplock with the female contestants was a little over the top.

I saw someone talking about the kissing thing.  They said that as he kissed them, he'd wish them good luck.  There was a time when he was going to stop kissing female contestants, but most of them expected it and kind of wanted the kiss. It had become his sort of trademark.
Title: Re: Re: Re: Richard Dawson Dead at 80
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on June 04, 2012, 03:37:39 PM
Hogan's Heroes
The Running Man

He was also a longtime fixture on "Match Game". RIP.
Title: Re: Richard Dawson Dead at 80
Post by: rich_t on June 04, 2012, 05:36:08 PM
Yeah, I enjoyed Hogan's Heroes as a kid as well, though the portrayal of German soldiers as being complete imbeciles was fairly stupid itself.

Later, during his hosting of "Family Feud", his habit of insisting on a liplock with the female contestants was a little over the top.

It was a sitcom...  It was supposed to reflect stupidity.

I enjoyed Hogan's Heroes.

I was never a big fan of the Family Feud though.
Title: Re: Richard Dawson Dead at 80
Post by: Eupher on June 04, 2012, 06:11:59 PM
It was a sitcom...  It was supposed to reflect stupidity.

I enjoyed Hogan's Heroes.

I was never a big fan of the Family Feud though.

Yeah, I know that it was a sitcom. Doh.

Twenty years after WWII and they're still portraying the Germans as if they're dumbasses? Moronic in and of itself.

Kinda funny --- I don't remember The Rat Patrol or even Combat! in that same light, or even Robert Conrad a little later in Baa Baa Black Sheep. Or even McHale's Navy, for that matter.

There's a point at which you transcend comedy and you go directly to boorishness. It was more a reflection on the producers than on anybody else, frankly.

YMMV.
Title: Re: Richard Dawson Dead at 80
Post by: cavegal on June 05, 2012, 11:58:47 AM
Hogan's Heroes is what  I remember him mostly from.