Klink: So, Schultz. You worked for the Schatzi Toy Company [before the war]?
Schultz: No. I own the Schatzi Toy Company.
Klink: (Switches into bootlicker mode.) Have a cigar?
Corporal Karl Langenscheidt, one of Klink’s adjutants. Can you name the other?*
*Hint: Think “toilet paper.” 
Richard was always my favorite on Hogans Heroes. I remember him guest hosting the Tonight Show a few times in the 70’s when Johnny was off. Richard was really good at it too. He was extremely versatile and talented performer.
He’ll be missed.
He was a cutie, thanks. I found the reaction of van Dyke the funniest thing about that clip. I agree, that wasn’t acting, he was cracking UP.
If your kids ever ask you, “Dad what were the 70s like” make 'em watch this celebrity episode of “Family Feud”, Eight is Enough vs. Love Boat. (best part the “suprise” at 3:43).
“We’re very pleased; you’ve heard we want to buy it,” is, I assume, a reference to the series pilot.
How this relates to the Beatles appearing on Ed Sullivan, I don’t know.
He was terrific in the Running Man.
I had an aunt appear on the show. They skunked out, but she got a peck on the cheek from him.
Loved him in The Running Man as well.
Nitpick: Apparently he was just mimicking a Liverpool accent for the TV role - it wasn’t his native accent since, as aldiboronti points out, he was from a completely different part of England.
I came in just to applaude the thread title. I can see and hear it perfectly in my head. Bravo.
I guess Robert Clary (LeBeau) is the only remaining main actor from “Hogan’s Heroes”. There are a couple who were on one or two seasons: ken Washington (Baker) and Cynthia Lynn (Helga). Clary survived Buchenwald and outlasts his mates.
From what an “E! True Hollywood Story” on “Family Feud” said a few years ago, he was very demanding on. Always after people to do their jobs better, to make sure the seats were packed so he could perform better.
Frog, alligator, september!
RIP, Richard. 
I just read this elsewhere on the web, but it seems that Richard did two separate stints on Family Feud. During the first one was when he met his last wife. Apparently, she was non-plussed by all the kidding, so when he was afforded the chance to return, she asked him to cut it out. He complied. So if you ever watch old episodes were his lips aren’t in action, that would be why. Isn’t that sweet, giving up something for love that you were famous for?
Anyway, I loved him on Match Game. His wit was incredible and, once I was old enough, the innuendo was hilariously inappropriate but highly preferable to today’s boring ass standards. May he rest in peace and his loved ones find comfort where they can.
I’m being nitpicky, but the chronology doesn’t match up to me. He says he was in New York because they were up for a couple of prizes. Assuming he means Hogan’s Heroes was up for the prizes, then it would have already aired when he went to see A Hard Days Night, but the movie came out in 1964 and the TV show aired in 1965. But let’s assume the pilot was shot before the Beatles became famous, you still have the problem of the network exec not hearing of The Beatles until Dawson mentioned the movie to him. The Beatles had already been on Ed Sullivan when the movie came out, and trust me, everyone had heard of The Beatles after that and knew they were from Liverpool and had heard how they talk.
I assume the gist of the story is true: they asked him to change his accent for the pilot and then later when The Beatles became famous he had a “haw, haw” moment. It just couldn’t have happened when and how he said.
Panel in Heaven for Match Game: God, Moses, Elijah, Jesus, Richard Dawson, and the Holy Spirit.
Rayburn (to contestant): And which celebrity would you like to try to match?
Contestant: Richard, please.
Back when GSN didn’t suck ass, they used to have the Dawson Family Feud on every day at 5 pm. Now all the ever show are the vastly inferior modern incarnations.
He was one of the great game show hosts, seemed to care about the contestants and sometimes bent the rules just a bit to give them a better shot at the big money. In the Match Game, he was the reliable one. Some of the celebs didn’t take it seriously nor seem to give a damn if they matched the player or not, Richard always gave the best answer that he had.
I didn’t care for Hogan’s Heros, the notion of jocularity with the Nazis just doesn’t seem plausible. Not sure how good an actor he was, but as a game show personality he was a great one.
Wow, that’s fascinating. I did not know that. Puts a whole new spin on the show which I only watched as a child.
I am actually amazed I know Richard Dawson as well as I do–I have never watched game shows (except the 1950s reruns) and Hogan’ Heroes was *not *permitted in my house (my parents wouldn’t even set foot in a Volkswagen or buy from Chanel).
Didn’t Dawson also appear in an episode of MASH?
I had the exact opposite reaction. I never liked him. He oozed creepiness and I always had the gut feeling he was a deeply unpleasant man IRL.