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Paul Hogan AM (born October 8, 1939 in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales) is
an Australian actor and comedian.
Formerly a rigger working on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Hogan rose to fame
in the early 1970s presenting a comedy segment in the otherwise serious
current affairs series 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 comedic characters with John Cornell.
The series, which ran for 60 episodes between 1973 and 1984, proved to be
popular both in his native country and in the UK, and showcased his
trademark lighthearted but laddish "Aussie" humour. In 1985, Hogan was
awarded Australian of the Year and was also inducted into the Order of
Australia.
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During the 1980s Hogan 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, 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.
1986's Crocodile Dundee proved to be the most successful Australian film
ever, and launched Hogan's international film career. Crocodile Dundee won
Paul Hogan 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.
Hogan married his Dundee co-star Linda Kozlowski in 1990 after divorcing his
first wife Noeline. He has five children from his first marriage, and one
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