Paul Hogan
Highest Rated: 89% Crocodile Dundee (1986)
Lowest Rated: 6% Lightning Jack (1994)
Birthday: Oct 8, 1939
Birthplace: Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia
If Australia has a human face in the American popular mind, it may well be the smiling, deeply lined visage of Paul Hogan. Less as an actor than a personality, this lean, tanned and weathered- looking former construction worker--nicknamed "Hoges"--represented the Land Down Under in a series of ads for the Australian Tourist Commission that enticed more than 600,000 Americans abroad. Audiences found him earnest, likeable and down-to-earth. Hogan parlayed these qualities into international stardom as the co-writer and star of "'Crocodile' Dundee" (1986), a hugely successful comedy adventure depicting the adventures of an Outback outdoorsman in New York City. This unpretentiously old-fashioned comedy was a smash hit that won Hogan a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy, an Oscar nomination for the original screenplay and a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Award nomination. It also generated a successful sequel, "'Crocodile' Dundee 2" (1988), which Hogan co-scripted and executive produced. Together the films grossed over $500 million.
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18% | 39% | The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee | Self | - | 2020 |
33% | 47% | That's Not my Dog! | Unknown (Character) | - | 2018 |
54% | 64% | Charlie & Boots | Charlie (Character) | - | 2009 |
80% | 58% | Strange Bedfellows | Vince Hopgood (Character) | - | 2004 |
11% | 25% | Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles |
Mick Dundee (Character), Writer, Producer |
- | 2001 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Floating Away | Shane (Character) | - | 1998 |
30% | 34% | Flipper | Porter (Character) | $20.0M | 1996 |
6% | 46% | Lightning Jack |
Lightning Jack Kane (Character), Producer |
$15.3M | 1994 |
33% | 48% | Almost an Angel | Terry Dean (Character) | $6.5M | 1990 |
9% | 38% | Crocodile Dundee II |
Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee (Character), Screenwriter |
$109.0M | 1988 |
89% | 59% | Crocodile Dundee |
Michael J. 'Crocodile' Dundee (Character), Writer |
$169.0M | 1986 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Anzacs: The War Down Under | Cpl. Pat Cleary (Character) | - | 1985 |