Mark Dawson

Who is Mark Dawson?

Mark Richard Dawson is an entertainment manager and CEO of Dawson, Reeves and Zutaut Entertainment Group. Dawson is also the first son of actor/game show host Richard Dawson and actress Diana Dors. Previously, he had worked as an assistant to producer Mark Goodson as well as a showcase and question writer for The Price Is Right, Concentration, The Better Sex, Match Game and Family Feud, and had served as a creative consultant of the latter show's second run with his father as host from 1994 to 1995. A young Dawson appeared alongside his father on a few early episodes of Family Feud as well. Dawson was also an associate producer at Rastar Productions and at NBC for You Bet Your Life, a remake based on the old 1950s Groucho Marx TV program that his father's production company produced in the 1980s. In 2001, he was hired by Paul Schrader as a technical advisor for the movie Auto Focus starring Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe.

Currently, Dawson manages the all-female tribute bands The Iron Maidens and the cover band Crabby Patty. He also manages the all-female heavy metal band Phantom Blue.