He made his hearty, soaring delivery of the phrase “Survey says…” a national catchphrase among viewers.ĭawson won a daytime Emmy Award in 1978 as best game show host. The game show, which initially ran from 1976 to 1985, pitted families who tried to guess the most popular answers to poll questions such as “What do people give up when they go on a diet? Peter Newkirk on “Hogan’s Heroes,” died Saturday night from complications related to esophageal cancer at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, his son Gary said.
He was 79.ĭawson, also known to TV fans as the Cockney POW Cpl. Richard Dawson, the wisecracking British entertainer who was among the schemers in the 1960s sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” and a decade later began kissing thousands of female contestants as host of the game show “Family Feud” has died.
