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Richard Dawson passed away on June 2, 2012! Richard Dawson, the British entertainer who rose to fame for his role as the Cockney prisoner-of-war Cpl. Peter Newkirk in 1960s CBS comedy show "Hogan's Heroes" and later became a host of the game show "Family Feud" has died. He was 79. Dawson died on Saturday night, June 2, from complications related to esophageal cancer at Ronald Reagan Memorial Hospital, his son Gary said. Dawson won a daytime Emmy Award in 1978 as best TV game show host. Tom Shales of The Washington Post called him "the fastest, brightest and most beguilingly caustic interlocutor since the late great Groucho bantered and parried on 'You Bet Your Life.'" The show was so popular it was released as both daytime and syndicated evening versions. He was known for kissing each woman contestant, and at the time the show bowed out in 1985, executive producer Howard Felsher estimated that Dawson had kissed "somewhere in the vi