Paul Hogan

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Paul Hogan

Born October 8, 1939 (1939-10-08) (age 68)
New South Wales, Australia
Spouse(s) Linda Kozlowski (1990-present)

Paul Hogan AM (born October 8, 1939) is an Australian Golden Globe-winning actor and comedian.

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[edit] Career

Hogan was born 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. The series, which ran for 60 episodes between 1973 and 1984, was popular both in his native country and in the UK and Ireland, and showcased his trademark lighthearted but laddish "Aussie Ocker" humour. In 1985, Hogan was awarded Australian of the Year and was also inducted into the Order of Australia.

During the early 1980s, Hogan filmed a series of television ads promoting the Australian tourism industry, which aired in the United States. In particular the advertisement featuring the phrase Shrimp on the barbie which aired from 1984, was particularly successful.[1] Later in the decade, he appeared on British television in a long-running series of advertisements for Foster's Lager, in which he played an earthy Australian abroad in London. The character's most notable line (spoken incredulously at a ballet performance) "Strewth, mate, there's a bloke down there with no strides on!" followed Hogan for years, and the popularity of its "fish out of water" humour was repeated with his next endeavour.

Hogan's first film, Crocodile Dundee (1986), featuring a similarly down-to-earth hunter travelling from the Australian Outback to New York City, was privately funded by Hogan and a group of private investors including much of its cast, entrepreneur Kerry Packer, and cricketers Greg Chappell, Dennis Lillee, and Rod Marsh.

Crocodile Dundee became the most successful Australian film ever, and launched Hogan's international film career. It won him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and a BAFTA Award nomination. In 1986 Hogan also starred in a series of television tourism commercials aimed at the US market (see Shrimp on the barbie). Following the success of Crocodile Dundee, Paul went on to star in the sequel Crocodile Dundee II in 1988 and starred in a handful of other films such as Almost an Angel, Flipper and Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles.

In the early 2000's Hogan was a spokesman for Subaru, promoting their Outback models.

[edit] Personal life

Hogan married his Dundee co-star Linda Kozlowski in 1990 after he and first wife Noelene were divorced. He has five children from his first marriage, and one, Chance, from his second.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Acting

[edit] Writing

[edit] Producing

[edit] Himself

[edit] References

  1. ^ Baker, Bill; Peggy Bendel. "Come and Say G’Day!". Travel Marketing Decisions (Summer 2005). The Association of Travel Marketing Executives. 

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Preceded by
Lois O'Donoghue		 Australian of the Year
1985		 Succeeded by
Dick Smith
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