Richard Dawson was the director of the TV game show `` Family Feud '' .
Dawson was well known for playing Corporal Peter Newkirk on `` Hogan 's Heroes '' , and being the director of the Family Feud game show from 1976 to 1985 , and a regular panelist on the 1970s version of Match Game on CBS from 1973 to 1978 .