'Family Feud' host Richard Dawson dies at 79 of esophageal cancer

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Richard Dawson was born in England on Nov. 20, 1932. He was perhaps best known for hosting "Family Feud for nine years in the 1970s and 1980s and then again shortly in the 1990s.

According to the Associated Press, the audience gave him a standing ovation during his final show.Richard Dawson, Actor: Hogan's Heroes. Richard Dawson was born on November 20, 1932 in Gosport, Hampshire, England. When he was 14.

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"Please sit down. I have to do at least 30 minutes of fun and laughter and you make me want to cry," Dawson said at the time. "I've had the most incredible luck in my career. I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them."


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                       The Times will have a full obituary later Sunday.

Richard Dawson, the legendary host of Family Feud and a veteran film and TV actor, has died from complications due to esophageal cancer, according to his son.

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He was 79. Gary Dawson wrote on Facebook late Saturday:

"It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that my father passed away this evening from complications due to esophageal cancer."Dawson died at the age of 79 from complications of esophageal cancer on June 2, 2012, at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

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