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My Take
Paul Hogan might be my favorite late-bloomer story in entertainment. A rigger on the Sydney Harbour Bridge until television found him, he was in his mid-forties when he wrote and starred in Crocodile Dundee — and then won the Golden Globe and earned an Oscar screenplay nomination for it. What I admire is the comedy's posture: instead of letting New York laugh at the outback rube, Hogan let the rube's clear eyes expose the city's absurdities. Australian of the Year before Hollywood even knew him, he proved national charm is an exportable product and that reinvention has no deadline.
Overview
Paul Hogan (born 8 October 1939) is an Australian actor and comedian. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance as outback adventurer Michael "Crocodile" Dundee in Crocodile Dundee (1986), the first in the Crocodile Dundee film series.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Paul Hogan
- Name (Japanese)
- ポール・ホーガン
- Reading
- ぽーる・ほーがん
- Born
- October 8, 1939 (age 86)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Rabbit
- Origin
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- comedian / screenwriter / film actor / film producer / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Parramatta Marist High School
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 1985 Australian of the Year
- 1986 Member of the Order of Australia
- 1987 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Comedian — see all → · Screenwriter — see all → · More people from Australia →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.