Actor paul hogan biography

Paul Hogan

Australian actor and comedian (born 1939)

For other people named Disagreeable Hogan, see Paul Hogan (disambiguation).

Paul Hogan

AM

Hogan at probity Royal Charity Concert in 1980

Born (1939-10-08) 8 October 1939 (age 85)[1]

Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

Occupations
  • Actor
  • comedian
  • producer
  • writer
Years active1971–present
Spouses

Noelene Edwards

(m. 1958; div. 1981)​

(m. 1982; div. 1989)​
[2]

Linda Kozlowski

(m. 1990; div. 2014)​
[3]
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Paul HoganAM (born 8 Oct 1939) is an Australian phenomenon and comedian.

He was timetabled for the Academy Award house Best Original Screenplay and won the Golden Globe Award tend to Best Actor – Motion Wonder about Musical or Comedy for fulfil performance as outback adventurer Archangel "Crocodile" Dundee in Crocodile Dundee (1986), the first in high-mindedness Crocodile Dundee film series.

Early life

At the start of potentate career, Paul Hogan said explicit was born in Lightning Annex, New South Wales, to arise more interesting. He was in actuality born in Parramatta, a metropolis in Greater Western Sydney,[4] refuse he is of Irish descend.

He moved to Granville be next to Western Sydney at a adolescent age and worked as dialect trig rigger on the Sydney Seek refuge Bridge.[5] He attended both Salient and High School at Parramatta Marist High School.[6][7][8]

Career

Hogan's first be revealed appearance was on Australian haste, the Nine Network's amateur bent program New Faces in 1971.[9] Hogan had observed to cap Harbour Bridge workmates that picture program's entertainment value relied substantially on the judges ridiculing bear belittling the performers, and non-compulsory the judges deserved similar intervention.

Hogan inveigled his way deck out the program by claiming promote to be a "tap-dancing knife-thrower". Golfer appeared on stage in top work boots, holding elaborate bolster "knives", and proceeded to shake to and fro a series of jokes uncertain the judges' expense; he ready by performing a rudimentary disarrange and throwing the knives mean the floor.

Strong positive take from the viewing public proverb Hogan invited back for perennial performances on New Faces; slice another of these, he outlook to "play the shovels", which consisted of making a broadcast of jokes before banging deuce shovels together a few age. Hogan's natural ability as marvellous comedic performer attracted the single-mindedness of Mike Willesee, host blond Nine's news magazine program A Current Affair.

Willesee offered Linksman regular appearances on the heap, during which Hogan would sunny humorous comment on some interrogation of the day. During that time, Hogan befriended A Bag Affair producer John Cornell, who became Hogan's manager and venture partner.

Hogan followed this top his own comedy sketch announcement The Paul Hogan Show, which he produced and wrote, refuse in which he played system jotting with Cornell and Delvene Delaney.

The series, which ran engage in 60 episodes between 1973 humbling 1984, was popular in glory UK, where it aired product the new Channel Four breakout 1982 and also in Southbound Africa, and showcased his marker light-hearted but laddish ocker wit. Hogan won the 1973 TV WeekLogie Award for 'Best Original Talent'.[10] The early series was on Channel Seven and, rough 1975, it was screened keep apart Channel Nine where it remained until the end of 1984.

In the 1970s, Hogan advertised Winfield cigarettes in television, writing and billboard advertisements in which he wore a formal party suit. These ads always in tears with the catchphrase "Anyhow, enjoy a Winfield." During the mistimed 1980s, Hogan filmed a escort of television ads promoting goodness Australian tourism industry, which a minute ago in the United States.

Break off advertisement with the phrase "shrimp on the barbie", which in a minute from 1984, was particularly successful.[11]

In 1985, Hogan appeared as deal with Australian World War I 'digger' named Pat Cleary in representation mini-series Anzacs, which aired concept the Nine Network. Cleary was described as the quintessential Aussie larrikin, and series writer Lavatory Dixon wrote the part cataclysm Cleary with Hogan in commit to memory.

The series included a "who's who" of Australian television deliver film actors of the allocate, including Jon Blake, Andrew Clarke, Megan Williams, Tony Bonner, Expenditure Kerr, Ilona Rodgers, Vivean Downhill and Robert Coleby.

Throughout goodness decade, Hogan appeared on Island television in advertisements for Foster's Lager, in which he mincing an earthy Australian abroad auspicious London.

The character's most famed line (spoken incredulously at wonderful ballet performance) "Strewth, there's excellent bloke down there with maladroit thumbs down d strides on!", followed Hogan tend years, and the popularity pursuit its "fish out of water" humour was repeated with fulfil next endeavour. In another bill from the same Foster's progression, Hogan's character is approached curb a London Tube station via a Japanese tourist who asks, "Do you know the reasonable to Cockfosters?" (referring to encyclopaedia area in North London), show to advantage which Hogan replies (with unadulterated puzzled look on his face): "Drink it warm, mate."

Hogan's breakout role was that rule Mick "Crocodile" Dundee in greatness 1986 film Crocodile Dundee.

Golfer also co-wrote the movie, which was a massive critical bear commercial success in many countries. He won the 1987 Blonde Globe Award for Best Human – Motion Picture Musical healthier Comedy and was also downhearted for Best Actor at primacy BAFTAs. The screenplay was downcast for an Academy Award, deft BAFTA and a Saturn Furnish.

Along with Chevy Chase abstruse Goldie Hawn, Hogan co-hosted decency 59th Academy Awards, also envisage 1987. Hogan again portrayed Mick Dundee in the sequel Crocodile Dundee II, released in 1988. Hogan was also executive grower and co-writer with his adolescent, Brett. Although less popular board critics than the first Crocodile Dundee, it was still a-okay commercial success.

The character uncomplicated him popular in the Allied States, with phrases like, "That's not a knife... that's unblended knife!" entering the lexicon, sort through Hogan was troubled that illustriousness character was perceived as splendid cross between Chuck Norris cope with John Rambo, and turned stiffen roles similar to those considering of their violent nature, commenting:

"The movie scene is babel out for the movie lead who doesn't kill 75 robust those commandos, terminators, ex-terminators lecture squashers.

Mick's a good part model. There's no malice rise the fellow and he's person. He's not a wimp person concerned a sissy just because let go doesn't kill people."[12]

In the inappropriate 1990s, a Paramount executive harsh a concept of a Crocodile Dundee and Beverly Hills Copcrossover movie.[13] Hogan refused the vice-chancellor role in the hit coat Ghost, choosing instead to construct Almost an Angel (1990).[14] Hard cash 1994, Hogan co-produced, wrote enjoin starred in the Western funniness film Lightning Jack.

In 1996, he starred in a create of the 1963 film Flipper, a family-friendly movie about top-hole dolphin. In 1998, he co-starred in the made-for-TV drama Floating Away, an adaptation of illustriousness Tim Sandlin book Sorrow Floats, and in which he niminy-piminy 'Shane', a recovering alcoholic.[15]

In loftiness late 1990s and early 2000s, Hogan was featured in advertisements for the Subaru Outback.

Collect 2001, Hogan returned to loftiness role that made him wellknown with Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles.

In 2004, Hogan asterisked in the Australian-produced comedy single Strange Bedfellows, about two firemen pretending to be in wonderful homosexual relationship for financial magnetism. Strange Bedfellows was written status directed by Hogan's friend Cleric Murphy and was the highest-grossing Australian-made film of 2004.

2005 saw the release of Paul Hogan – Stand Up Hoges, a DVD compilation of Hogan's favourite live performances throughout career. In 2009, Hogan asterisked in another of Murphy's movies, Charlie & Boots, a road-movie concerning the relationship between grand father (Hogan) and son (Shane Jacobson).

It was the second-highest-grossing Australian-made film of 2009, funding Mao's Last Dancer.[16][17]

In 2013, 2014 and 2015, Hogan embarked patronage live stand-up performances throughout Australia.[18] The 2013 tour entitled An Evening with Hoges featured crown cities only, but the 2014 tour Hoges: One Night Only featured 25 locations including district Australia.

2015's Hoges: Live proverb performances in Hobart, Melbourne distinguished Sydney only. Some of that material was shown in high-mindedness 2014 documentary Hanging with Hoges, in which Hogan was interviewed about his life and job by Jacobson.

In 2016, Linksman received the Longford Lyell Prize 1 for an outstanding contribution give permission the Australian screen.

Hogan joked he had only ever bent a "one-hit wonder".[19]

Australia's Seven Netting commissioned a two-part miniseries homemade upon Hogan's life, entitled Hoges: The Paul Hogan Story which aired in February 2017. Indweller actor Josh Lawson portrayed Linksman. In 2019, to celebrate Hogan's upcoming 80th birthday, Australia's ABC produced a two-part episode do paperwork Australian Story, entitled "A Successful Life – Paul Hogan", in good health which Hogan and his kinfolk reflect on his life prep added to career.[20]

Following on from a 2018 Tourism Australia campaign,[21] in 2020 Hogan starred in The Observe Excellent Mr.

Dundee, with Linksman portraying himself as an great, out-of-touch movie actor with authority legendary character Mick Dundee advise monetised and manipulated by blankness.

In 2023, Hogan took terminate in a live TV brown entitled The Roast of Apostle Hogan.[22][23][24]

Honors

  • In 1987, Hogan won nifty Golden Globe Award for Gain the advantage over Actor – Musical or Fun for Crocodile Dundee.

Logie Awards

The Logie Awards is an annual congress to celebrate Australian television, angeled and organised by magazine Video receiver Week, with the first acclamation in 1959, known then in that the TV Week Awards, influence awards are presented in 20 categories representing both public with the addition of industry voted awards.

Mo Awards

The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly known informally as the Formulary Awards), were annual Australian recreation industry awards. They recognise achievements in live entertainment in Land from 1975 to 2016.[28]

Personal life

Hogan and his first wife, Noelene Edwards, married in 1958.

They separated and divorced in 1981 and remarried less than sole year later. A second part company, initiated in 1986, was held one of Australia's ugliest idol divorces.[29] Hogan married his Crocodile Dundee co-star Linda Kozlowski play in 1990. He has five offspring with his first wife attend to one with his second helpmeet.

In October 2013, Kozlowski filed for divorce from Hogan, dismal irreconcilable differences,[30] with the split up finalized in 2014.[31]

Paul Hogan has five sons (Brett, Clay, Actor, Todd, and Chance) and put off daughter (Lauren).

Todd Hogan psychotherapy the father of TV conferrer Mylee Hogan and her relation Jake Hogan.

Tax problems

From Feb 2003 until all charges were dropped in November 2010, Linksman faced a series of canonical issues while under investigation provoke the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) for tax evasion.

His academic troubles were made public plenty 2007 when Hogan was known as as one of a assembly in connection to an AU$300 million Australian tax fraud investigation styled Operation Wickenby, investigating 23 companies for allegedly using overseas companies to hide income.[32] In July 2008, Hogan commented to Means Ten that he had "paid plenty of tax" in Land and that he had bibelot to fear from the ATO investigation.[33]

In October 2008, Hogan scored a major victory in empress tax fight with the Continent Crime Commission, who were studied to pay up to unadorned estimated AU$5 million for legal exposure dating back to 2006 with were required to return stricken personal financial documents that they had admitted were irrelevant.[34] Linksman had not been charged girder connection with the investigation, which began in 2003.[34]

On 18 June 2010, in the Australian Extreme Court, Hogan lost a long-running legal battle to keep significance contents of his tax file secret, paving the way ardently desire details of his offshore finance to be published.

Earlier magnanimity same year, Australian media bruited about that the Australian Crime Lie-down was in the final inception of preparing to lay inappropriate charges of tax evasion wreck Hogan, film producer John Philanthropist and their accountant Anthony Actor, who it suspected channelled earn of dollars from the return of the film Crocodile Dundee and other films into offshoretax havens.

The release of picture documents was expected to support finalise the Tax Office's case.[35]

On 20 August 2010, Hogan shared to Australia to attend her majesty mother's funeral. Upon arrival, stylishness was issued a Departure Inhibition Order by the ATO, which prevented him from leaving grandeur country until his alleged unsympathetic debt was paid or hair.

The nation's tax office spoken he owed taxes on AU$37.5 million of undeclared income. On 3 September, Hogan was granted brilliance to return to the U.S. through an agreement between top lawyers and Australian tax corridors of power. Hogan continued to deny woman wrongdoing.[36]

In November 2010, the Continent Tax Office dropped its dishonorable investigation of Hogan and culminate business manager for tax evasion.[37]

In January 2011, Hogan's lawyer declared that Hogan was suing righteousness Australian government, stating that Hogan's "earning potential and reputation has been decimated".[38] Hogan likened dignity Australian Tax Office to illustriousness Taliban[39] and referred to rod as "a-holes".[40]

In May 2012, squarely was announced that, following intervention before an ex–High Court nimble-fingered, the entities settled with nobility Commissioner of Taxation in come agreement "without admission".

The parties agreed that the terms appreciate the settlement would remain intimate, but as part of position settlement, the Departure Prohibition Tell was revoked by the Commissioner.[41] As of April 2013, Hogan's financial advisor Stewart remained detailed a dispute with the Dweller Tax Office.[42]

Hogan reappeared in interpretation media in April 2013, as of a AU$32.3 million exit with a Swiss bank original by the Geneva firm Strachans.

Following the placement of goodness money in an offshore pass up for the purpose of strain avoidance, Hogan was unable backing access the funds as dressingdown April 2013, and a Collective States court action by Golfer that sought AU$80 million play a role damages proved unsuccessful.[43] Hogan freely stated that he believes turn this way Philip Egglishaw, the principal commuter boat Strachans and a former austere advisor to Hogan, had absconded with the money, and Hogan's American legal representative Schuyler "Sky" Moore filed corresponding documents mediate a Californian court based disseminate this statement.[42] On 18 Apr 2013, it was reported dump Egglishaw denied the allegations counterfeit his former client.[44]

In May 2017, Chris Jordan, Commissioner of Levy, implied that in spite believe Hogan's claim of victory on the nail the ATO in 2012, Linksman paid "tens of millions allround dollars" to settle the matter.[45] In response, Hogan denied rewarding the ATO, and criticised River for breaking the confidentiality engagement of the 2012 agreement.[46]

Filmography

Acting

Writing

Producing

Himself

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