Paul Hogan |
Paul Hogan is one of Australias best known and loved actors known for his television comedy shows and Crocodile Dundee, for which he won a Golden Globe award.
Hogan was born on 8th October 1939 in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales and went on to become a rigger working on the Sydney Harbour Bridge before rising to fame in the early 1970s after a comical interview on A Current Affair.
Hogan followed this with his own comedy sketch programme, The Paul Hogan Show, which he produced, co-wrote, and in which he played a panoply of characters with John Cornell.
Hogans first film, Crocodile Dundee (1986), featuring a similarly down-to-earth hunter travelling from the Australian Outback to New York became the most successful Australian film ever, and launched Hogans international film career.
It won him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and two BAFTA Award nominations (one for Best Actor, one for Best Original Screenplay). Following the success of Crocodile Dundee Hogan starred in the sequel, Crocodile Dundee II in 1988, and starred in a handful of other films such as Almost an Angel, Flipper, Lightning Jack and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles.
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❊ Also See.. ❊
➼ Paul Hogan: The Tap Dancing Knife Thrower
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