Richard Dawson

Colin Lionel Emm ran away from home at age fourteen to join the Merchant Navy before taking up stand-up comedy in London boxing clubs under the stage name Dickie Dawson. Moving to the United States in the 1960s, he achieved mainstream fame playing the quick-witted British POW Corporal Peter Newkirk on the smash hit comedy series 'Hogan's Heroes' (1965–1971).

Dawson became a television fixture as a sharp panelist on 'Match Game' before becoming the inaugural host of 'Family Feud' in 1976. Known for kissing every female contestant for luck and reassurance, he won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1978. In 1987, he satirized his own game show persona in the dystopian action classic 'The Running Man' alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger.