33 Facts About Paul Hogan

Paul Hogan was born on 8 October 1939 and is an Australian actor and comedian.

At the start of his career, Paul Hogan said he was born in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, to appear more interesting.

Paul Hogan was actually born in Parramatta, a suburb in Greater Western Sydney, and he is of Irish descent.

Paul Hogan moved to Granville in Western Sydney at a young age and worked as a rigger on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Paul Hogan attended both Primary and High School at Parramatta Marist High School.

Paul Hogan had observed to his Harbour Bridge workmates that the program's entertainment value relied significantly on the judges ridiculing and belittling the performers, and suggested the judges deserved similar treatment.

Paul Hogan inveigled his way onto the program by claiming to be a "tap-dancing knife-thrower".

Paul Hogan appeared on stage in his work boots, holding elaborate prop "knives," and proceeded to make a series of jokes at the judges' expense; he finished by performing a rudimentary shuffle and throwing the knives onto the floor.

Strong positive response from the viewing public saw Paul Hogan invited back for repeated performances on New Faces; in another of these, he proposed to "play the shovels", which consisted of making a series of jokes before banging two shovels together a few times.

Hogan followed this with his own comedy sketch program The Paul Hogan Show, which he produced and wrote, and in which he played characters with Cornell and Delvene Delaney.

Paul Hogan won the 1973 TV Week Logie Award for 'Best New Talent'.

In 1985, Paul Hogan appeared as an Australian World War I 'digger' named Pat Cleary in the mini-series Anzacs, which aired on the Nine Network.

Paul Hogan co-wrote the movie, which was a massive critical and commercial success in many countries.

Paul Hogan again portrayed Mick Dundee in the sequel Crocodile Dundee II, released in 1988.

Paul Hogan was executive producer and co-writer with his son, Brett.

Paul Hogan refused the starring role in the hit film Ghost, choosing instead to make Almost an Angel.

In 1994, Paul Hogan co-produced, wrote and starred in the Western comedy film Lightning Jack.

In 2001, Paul Hogan returned to the role that made him famous with Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles.

In 2004, Paul Hogan starred in the Australian-produced comedy film Strange Bedfellows, about two firemen pretending to be in a homosexual relationship for financial benefit.

In 2013,2014 and 2015, Paul Hogan embarked on live stand-up performances throughout Australia.

Some of this material was shown in the 2014 documentary Hanging with Hoges, in which Paul Hogan was interviewed about his life and career by Jacobson.

In 2016, Paul Hogan received the Longford Lyell Award for an outstanding contribution to the Australian screen.

Paul Hogan joked he had only ever been a "one-hit wonder".

Paul Hogan married his Crocodile Dundee co-star Linda Kozlowski in 1990.

Paul Hogan has five children with his first wife and one with his second wife.

In October 2013, Kozlowski filed for divorce from Paul Hogan, citing irreconcilable differences, with the divorce finalised in 2014.

From February 2003 until all charges were dropped in November 2010, Paul Hogan faced a series of legal issues while under investigation by the Australian Taxation Office for tax evasion.

In July 2008, Paul Hogan commented to Network Ten that he had "paid plenty of tax" in Australia and that he had nothing to fear from the ATO investigation.

Paul Hogan had not been charged in connection with the investigation, which began in 2003.

On 18 June 2010, in the Australian High Court, Paul Hogan lost a long-running legal battle to keep the contents of his tax documents secret, paving the way for details of his offshore accounts to be published.

On 20 August 2010, Paul Hogan returned to Australia to attend his mother's funeral.

Paul Hogan likened the Australian Tax Office to the Taliban and referred to staff as "a-holes".

Paul Hogan reappeared in the media in April 2013, because of a AU$32.3 million issue with a Swiss bank run by the Geneva firm Strachans.