And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... God makes people. You understand that, don't you?' And I said, 'Yeah!' She said, 'Who makes a rainbow?" I said, 'God.' She said, 'I never presumed to tell anyone who could make a rainbow what color to make children.'

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.