Paul Hogan, AM is an Australian comedian and actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won a Golden Globe award for his performance as Michael "Crocodile" Dundee in "Crocodile" Dundee.
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Logie Awards Hall of Fame, George Wallace Memorial Logie for Best New Talent, Logie Award for Best TV Comedy Performer
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, Logie Award for Most Popular Actor in a Miniseries/Telemovie
Movies
Fatty Finn, "Crocodile" Dundee, "Crocodile" Dundee II, Almost an Angel, Lightning Jack, Flipper, Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Strange Bedfellows, Charlie & Boots
TV Shows
Joe Millionaire, The Paul Hogan Show, Anzacs
Star Sign
Libra
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[on his breakout role as Crocodile Dundee] The movie scene is screaming out for the movie hero who doesn't kill 75 people... less of those commandos, terminators, ex-terminators and squashers. Mick's a good role model. There's no malice in the fellow and he's human. He's not a wimp or a sissy just because he doesn't kill people.
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I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.
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Come and say G'day! I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you!
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What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire.
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Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.
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The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.
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You're here to sweat. This program is live. There's about one thousand million people watching you. So you remember - one wrong word, one foolish gesture and your whole career could go down in flames. Hold that thought and have a nice night.
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I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46.
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I only work every couple of years. I go into retirement between films.
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Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But Angelinos are different!
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[speech at the Academy Awards] There are three Gs to accepting an award: Be Gracious ... Be Grateful ... and Get Off!
He was discovered in a "New Faces" talent quest while he was a rigger on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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Was given a Subaru Outback by the automobile company for his appearances in their commercials.
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Celebrity spokesperson for both Suburu Outback automobiles and Australian tourism.
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Divorced first wife, Noelene, after 28 years of marriage (their eldest son was 31 at the time). Has a son, named Chance Hogan, with co-star-turned-wife, Linda Kozlowski.
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He was awarded Australian of the Year in 1985.
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He was awarded the AM (Member of the Order of Australia) on January 26, 1989, for his services to tourism and entertainment.
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Had a variety of jobs before coming to notice in 1972 on "New Faces", a television talent show. This success led to his own sketch comedy series, The Paul Hogan Show (1973), the following year.
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Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1986" in John Willis's Screen World, Vol. 38.
$20 Million
