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Following his discharge from the merchant service, he began pursuing a comedy career using the stage name Dickie Dawson he later changed his alias to Richard Dawson, which he eventually adopted as his legal name. During 19, he made several passages on the RMS Mauretania from Southampton to ports of call, including Nassau, the Bahamas, Havana, and New York City.

Īt age 14, he ran away from home to join the British Merchant Navy, where he pursued a career in boxing, earning almost $5,000 in shipboard matches. In a radio interview with Hogan's Heroes co-star Bob Crane, Dawson recounted how this experience severely limited his school attendance, stating that he attended school regularly for only two years. His brother John Leslie Emm (five years older) and he were evacuated as children during World War II to escape the bombing of England's major port cities in the south. His father drove a removal van and his mother worked in a munitions factory. Dawson was well known for playing Corporal Peter Newkirk in Hogan's Heroes, as a regular panelist on Match Game (1973–1978), and as the original and third host of Family Feud (1976–1985, 1994–95).Ĭolin Lionel Emm was born in Gosport, Hampshire, England, on 20 November 1932 to Arthur Emm (born 1897) and Josephine Lucy Emm ( née Lindsay born 1903). Richard Dawson (born Colin Lionel Emm 20 November 1932 – 2 June 2012) was a British-born American actor, comedian, game-show host, and panelist in the United States.