Richard Dawson

Acting career

In 1963 Dawson appeared in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show in the role of dapper entertainer "Racy Tracy" Rattigan. He had a minor role in Universal's Munster Go Home!. [citation needed]


Later career
Dawson 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.

In 2012 Dawson died of complications from esophageal cancer. Richard Dawson (born Colin Lionel Emm; November 20 1932 – June 2 2012) was an English-born American actor and comedian and a game show host and panelist in the United States.