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Obit: Richard Dawson, 79

Here is a link to an article from the Associated Press. I saw the original message in this topic within seconds of its posting.

Just this past Thursday I had watched the original "Family Feud" again for the first time in months again after realizing the Game Show Network was repeating a certain cycle of editions in the series. Since the program was broadcast at 7:00 AM, I thought it was a good time to see the program again since there have been no other TV programs of interest to me other than local news since late last year.
 
Very sad day for the Family Feud family. One of my favorite hosts of the show!

-crainbebo
 
Some of us better remember Richard Dawson as Corporal Newkirk on Hogan's Heroes.

That leaves Robert Clary (now age 86) as the last surviving regular of HH, unless you count Kenneth Washington, who played Baker in the final season.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Some of us better remember Richard Dawson as Corporal Newkirk on Hogan's Heroes.
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I'm one of those although I think the actors who played the Germans far outclassed those of the POW's (including Bob Crane).

To me Dawson was the least believable of a group of unbelievable POW's and was downright obnoxious as a game show host.
 
landtuna said:
Mediafrog+ said:
Some of us better remember Richard Dawson as Corporal Newkirk on Hogan's Heroes.
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I'm one of those although I think the actors who played the Germans far outclassed those of the POW's (including Bob Crane).

To me Dawson was the least believable of a group of unbelievable POW's and was downright obnoxious as a game show host.
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i agree with this. He was OK on "Laugh In" but there was something I didn't like about his acting. He was better on sketch comedy.

But whatever you thought of him, he made a big name for him in the game show world.

RIP
 
landtuna said:
I think the actors who played the Germans far outclassed those of the POW's (including Bob Crane).
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An irony of Hogan's Heroes was that the actors playing Colonel Klink (Werner Klemperer), Sergeant Schultz (John Banner), General Burkhalter (Leon Askin), and Major Hochstetter (Howard Caine) were all Jewish. Klemperer had fled Germany with his family in 1933 (his father was the famous conductor Otto Klemperer) and Banner and Askin got out of Austria around the beginning of WWII. Both Banner and Askin lost family members in the Holocaust, as did Robert Clary, who was also Jewish.

Klemperer, Banner, Askin, and Caine also served in the U.S. military during WWII.
 
Askin was one of my favorite character actors. Born Leon Aschkenasy into a Jewish Vienna family he was always a heavyweight, in person and in character. His career was full of characters who were imposing "Europeans" with heavy accents and he could do most of them brilliantly.

Other than the obvious Hogan's Hero's role of General Burkhalter my favorite role was that of a Russian commissar whose love of the ladies and caviar overshadowed his political mores in Billy Wilder's "One, Two, Three".

Despite his lifelong weight he lived almost to 98 years of age.
 
Eerie coincidence that Richard died 16 years after Ray Combs (June 2, 1996).
 
Mediafrog+ said:
landtuna said:
I think the actors who played the Germans far outclassed those of the POW's (including Bob Crane).
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An irony of Hogan's Heroes was that the actors playing Colonel Klink (Werner Klemperer), Sergeant Schultz (John Banner), General Burkhalter (Leon Askin), and Major Hochstetter (Howard Caine) were all Jewish. Klemperer had fled Germany with his family in 1933 (his father was the famous conductor Otto Klemperer) and Banner and Askin got out of Austria around the beginning of WWII. Both Banner and Askin lost family members in the Holocaust, as did Robert Clary, who was also Jewish.

Klemperer, Banner, Askin, and Caine also served in the U.S. military during WWII.
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And they appeared with Bob Crane in the movie "The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz" - which was almost a "Hogan's Heroes" reunion.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
landtuna said:
I think the actors who played the Germans far outclassed those of the POW's (including Bob Crane).
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An irony of Hogan's Heroes was that the actors playing Colonel Klink (Werner Klemperer), Sergeant Schultz (John Banner), General Burkhalter (Leon Askin), and Major Hochstetter (Howard Caine) were all Jewish. Klemperer had fled Germany with his family in 1933 (his father was the famous conductor Otto Klemperer) and Banner and Askin got out of Austria around the beginning of WWII. Both Banner and Askin lost family members in the Holocaust, as did Robert Clary, who was also Jewish.

Klemperer, Banner, Askin, and Caine also served in the U.S. military during WWII.
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I recall that when Hogan's Heroes premiered, there was a lot of complaints from people (Jewish and otherwise) who felt that Nazis shouldn't be fodder for comedy - that the Holocaust and WW2 meant that the subject should never be taken lightly.

In the mid 60s, VW Beetles became very popular, but there were a lot of people who still wouldn't be caught dead owning one because they were conceived as "the People's Car" during the Nazi era.

It's easy to forget that 1965 (when Hogan premiered) was only 20 years after the end of World War 2 - and 21 years after D Day.
 
bigman2005 said:
Eerie coincidence that Richard died 16 years after Ray Combs (June 2, 1996).
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I guess this means Steve Harvey kicks the bucket in 2028? ::)
 
landtuna said:
Askin was one of my favorite character actors. Born Leon Aschkenasy into a Jewish Vienna family he was always a heavyweight, in person and in character. His career was full of characters who were imposing "Europeans" with heavy accents and he could do most of them brilliantly.

Other than the obvious Hogan's Hero's role of General Burkhalter my favorite role was that of a Russian commissar whose love of the ladies and caviar overshadowed his political mores in Billy Wilder's "One, Two, Three".

Despite his lifelong weight he lived almost to 98 years of age.
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Askin was brilliant in One, Two, Three. For you Superman fans, Askin and Banner made appearances in that show during the 1950s.
 
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