He had a minor role in Universal's Munster, Go Home!. He gained fame in the television show Hogan's Heroes as Cpl. In 1965, Dawson had a small role at the end of the film King Rat, starring George Segal, playing 1st Recon paratrooper Captain Weaver, sent to liberate allied POWs in a Japanese prison. In the same year Dawson made a guest appearance on The Dick Van Dyke Show (season 2, episode 27) playing "Racy" Tracy Rattigan, a lecherous flirt who was the summer replacement host on the Alan Brady Show. On 8 January 1963, Dawson appeared on The Jack Benny Program, season 13, episode 15, as an audience member seated next to Jack, barely recognizable in glasses and false moustache. In September 1961, Dawson began hosting a late-night talk show, the Mike Stokey Show, on Los Angeles channel 13, KCOP. In 1959, he made four appearances on BBC TV's Juke Box Jury, three of them alongside Dors, to whom he was by then married. Possibly his first television appearance occurred on 21 June 1954, when he was 21 and was featured on the Benny Hill Showcase, an early BBC Television program focused on "introducing artists and acts new to television." He also had at least four BBC Radio program appearances during 1954, including two bookings on the Midday Music Hall on BBC Home Service and two spots on How Do You Do, a BBC Light Entertainment broadcast billed as "a friendly get-together of Commonwealth artists." In 1958, he appeared alongside his future wife, Diana Dors, on BBC TV's A to Z: D, a program featuring entertainers with names beginning with the letter D. Career Comedy and variety artist in the UK ĭawson began his career in England as a stand-up comedian known as Dickie Dawson. Following his discharge from the merchant service, he began pursuing a comedy career using the stage name Dickie Dawson then, he revised his alias to Richard Dawson, the name which he later legally adopted. During 19, he made several passages on the RMS Mauretania from Southampton to ports of call, including Nassau, the Bahamas Havana and New York. Īt age 14, he ran away from home to join the British Merchant Navy, where he pursued a career in boxing, earning almost $5,000 in shipboard matches. In a radio interview with Hogan's Heroes co-star Bob Crane, Dawson recounted how this experience severely limited his school attendance, stating that he attended school regularly for only two years. His brother, John Leslie Emm, who was five years older, and he were evacuated as children during World War II to escape the bombing of England's major port cities in the south.
His father drove a moving van and his mother worked in a munitions factory. 2.1 Comedy and variety artist in the UKĬolin Lionel Emm was born in Gosport, Hampshire, England, on 20 November 1932 to Arthur Emm (born 1897) and Josephine Lucy Emm ( née Lindsay born 1903).
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