esophageal cancer claims another

Richard Dawson, Host Who Kissed on ‘Family Feud’, Dies at 79

NY Times: Richard Dawson, the British-born actor and comedian who played a larcenous prisoner of war on the comedy “Hogan’s Heroes” and became a star as the dapper and gregarious host of the game show“Family Feud,” died on Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 79.

The cause was complications of esophageal cancer, his son Gary wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday.

From an impoverished upbringing in post-World War II England, Mr. Dawson, whose earliest aspiration was to be a dockworker, became one of the most well-known television personalities in the 1970s and ’80s. He won a daytime Emmy in 1978 for his work on “Family Feud".

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Past deaths from esophageal cancer:
Christopher Hitchens, author - died December 2011
Harmon Killebrew, hall of fame slugger - died May 2011
Ron Silver, actor - died March 2009

Tom Lantos, US Representative from N. California - died Feb 2008
Ann Richards, governor of Texas - died Sept 2006