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The final episode aired on May 26, 1995, after which Dawson officially retired. Afterwards he said, 'If you do too much of that, I wonвЂ™t be able to do a show for you because IвЂ™ll cry.' During the revival, he did not kiss the female contestants, because of a commitment he made to his young daughter only to kiss her mother. Upon DawsonвЂ™s return he received a 25-second standing ovation when he walked on set. On September 12, 1994, Dawson returned to the syndicated edition of Family Feud, replacing Ray Combs for what became the final season of the showвЂ™s official second run (1988вЂ“1995). Working the audience, milking the laughs and the tears, he is not really much different than most genuine game show hosts - and thatвЂ™s the filmвЂ™s private joke.' review by Roger Ebert, November 13, 1987Дawson hosted an unsold pilot for a revival of the classic game show You Bet Your Life that was to air on NBC in 1988, but the network declined to pick up the show, which would go on to attempt two more failed revivals with hosts Buddy Hackett and Bill Cosby. Of DawsonвЂ™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.

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Later careerДawson 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. This name he would later officially legalize. After his discharge, he pursued a comedy career using the stage name Dickie Dawson when he reached adulthood, he revised this to become Richard Dawson. At the age of 14 he ran away from home to join the Merchant Marine, where he pursued a boxing career. Early lifeДawson was born in Gosport, Hampshire, England, on Novemto Arthur and Josephine Emm. Dawson is buried at Westwood Memorial Park in Los Angeles.

On June 7, 2012, the Game Show Network aired a 4-hour special showing some of DawsonвЂ™s greatest moments on Family Feud and on Match Game, including the first episode of DawsonвЂ™s return season.

DeathДawson died at age 79 from complications of esophageal cancer on Jat the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. He had two sons, Mark Dawson (born 1960) and Gary Dawson (born 1962), from his first marriage, to Diana Dors, which ended in divorce. 14 on the Game Show NetworkвЂ™s Top 25 Feud Moments. The episode was featured on the 25th Anniversary of Family Feud as No. Dawson announced this and showed a picture of his daughter on an episode in the 1994 version of the Feud - as he was greeting one of the contestants who happened to be a former contestant of his while he was a panelist on The Match Game. They had a daughter named Shannon Nicole Dawson. Upon retiring, Dawson took up residence in Beverly Hills, California, with his wife since 1991, the former Gretchen Johnson, whom he met when she was a member of one of the contestant families on Family Feud in the spring of 1981.