http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawson
He married somebody that was a contestant on Family Feud. Apparently was a smoker.
"Dawson parodied his TV persona in 1987 by co-starring alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in the action film The Running Man, in which he portrayed the evil, egotistical game-show host Damon Killian. Of Dawson's performance film critic Roger Ebert (who gave the film itself thumbs down) wrote, "Playing a character who always seems three-quarters drunk, Dawson chain-smokes his way through backstage planning sessions and then pops up in front of the cameras as a cauldron of false jollity. Working the audience, milking the laughs and the tears, he is not really much different than most genuine game show hosts—and that's the film's private joke."[3]"
I knew him mostly as a guy from MatchGame 75 which I probably watched daily during the summer when I was 13 and which later became MatchGame 76, and MatchGame 77. He was often the one with the "definitive answer". Then later I saw him on Hogan's Heroes re-runs, and FF which I (survey says) more rarely watched.
There was a DUer Arwalden who used to play MatchGame in the Lounge.
We really don't know these people we see on TV every day. That was a moving speech, and it is probably true. But for all we know, these people could be in one of those ads "I am not a nice person, but I play one on TV...."
But I always liked the Dawson.
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