"a movie. But I had so much fun making this commercial, I'd definitely be open to discussions about it."" Crocodile Dundee (film series) The Crocodile Dundee film series are centered around a crocodile hunter named Michael J. ""Crocodile"" Dundee. The movies star Paul Hogan in the titular role, over the course of three feature films centered around his adventures. Hogan refused several proposals for more ""Crocodile Dundee"" films. A New York reporter named Sue Charlton heads to Australia to interview the living legend, known as ""Crocodile"" Dundee. When she finally finds him in the vast Australian terrain, she is so"
"Paul Hogan Paul Hogan, (born 8 October 1939) is an Australian comedian, actor and television presenter. 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. Paul Hogan was born in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. He moved to Granville in Western Sydney at a young age and worked as a rigger on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Hogan's first public appearance was"
"more ""Crocodile Dundee"" films. In January 2018, two trailers were released online for what was marketed as another film in the series, titled ""Dundee"", with the tagline ""The son of a legend returns home"". The film was said to star Danny McBride as Brian Dundee, the son of the original Michael ""Crocodile"" Dundee. The trailers also feature cameo appearances by Australian actors Chris Hemsworth, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Margot Robbie, Isla Fisher, and Ruby Rose. Various aspects of the campaign made some publications believe that the film was an elaborate hoax. It was later reported that these ads were actually"
"humour was repeated with his next endeavour. In another advertisement from the same Foster's series, Hogan's character is approached in a London Tube station by a Japanese tourist who asks, 'Do you know the way to Cockfosters?' (referring to an area in North London), to which Hogan replies (with a puzzled look on his face): ""Drink it warm, mate."" Hogan's breakout role was that of Mick ""Crocodile"" Dundee in the 1986 film ""Crocodile Dundee"". Hogan also co-wrote the movie, which was a massive critical and commercial success in many countries. He won the 1987 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor"
"from painter on the Sydney Harbour Bridge to local TV star, then global film star with his hugely successful Crocodile Dundee in 1986 (a film which begins with scenes of Sydney) while theatre institutions like the Sydney Theatre Company and National Institute of Dramatic Art nurtured the budding careers of actors Mel Gibson, Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush and Cate Blanchett and elsewhere actors Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe forged their early careers in the city. In 1998, Fox Studios Australia opened as a major movie studio, occupying the site of the former Sydney Showground at Moore Park – going on"
"1987 Hogan won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Musical or Comedy for ""Crocodile Dundee"". In 2016 Hogan received the Longford Lyell Award, the highest honour of the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), for outstanding services to the Australian screen. Hogan and his first wife, Noelene Edwards, married in 1958. They separated and divorced in 1981 and remarried less than one year later. A second divorce, initiated in 1986, was considered one of Australia's ugliest celebrity divorces. Hogan married his ""Crocodile Dundee"" co-star Linda Kozlowski in 1990. He has five children with his first wife"
"television industries as a writer, and to veterans (for his community work as president of the Brooklyn sub-branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia). Ken Shadie Kenneth George ""Ken"" Shadie (born 8 December 1935) is an Australian screenwriter, who co-wrote the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film ""Crocodile Dundee"" with Paul Hogan and John Cornell. Shadie was born in the Sydney suburb of Bondi and raised in Lane Cove. From 1964 to 1968, he was chief writer and script editor of ""The Mavis Bramston Show"". He worked on its follow up ""News Revue"". In 1974, he was a"
"Rod Ansell Rodney William Ansell (1 October 1954 – 3 August 1999) was an Australian cattle grazier and a buffalo hunter. Described to be from ""the bush"", Ansell became famous in 1977 after he was stranded in extremely remote country in the Northern Territory, and the story of his survival for 56 days with limited supplies became news headlines around the world. Consequently, he served as the inspiration for Paul Hogan's character in the 1986 film ""Crocodile Dundee"". In 1999, he was killed in a police shootout. Ansell was born in Murgon, Queensland, to George William Ansell and Eva May"
"Rod Ansell Rodney William Ansell (1 October 1954 – 3 August 1999) was an Australian cattle grazier and a buffalo hunter. Described to be from ""the bush"", Ansell became famous in 1977 after he was stranded in extremely remote country in the Northern Territory, and the story of his survival for 56 days with limited supplies became news headlines around the world. Consequently, he served as the inspiration for Paul Hogan's character in the 1986 film ""Crocodile Dundee"". In 1999, he was killed in a police shootout. Ansell was born in Murgon, Queensland, to George William Ansell and Eva May"
"John Meillon John Meillon, ( ; 1 May 1934 – 10 August 1989) was an Australian character actor, known for many straight as well as comedy roles, he became most widely known internationally however as Walter Reilly in the films ""Crocodile Dundee"" and ""Crocodile Dundee II"". He also voiced Victoria Bitter beer adverts. Meillon was born in Mosman, New South Wales. His younger brother was director Bob Meillon (1943–2012). He began his acting career at the age of eleven in the ABC's radio serial ""Stumpy"", and made his first stage appearance the following year. He joined the Shakespeare Touring Company"
"- Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and was also nominated for Best Actor at the BAFTAs. The screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA and a Saturn Award. Along with Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn, Hogan co-hosted the 59th Academy Awards, also in 1987. Hogan again portrayed Mick Dundee in the sequel ""Crocodile Dundee II"", released in 1988. Hogan was also executive producer and co-writer with his son, Brett. Although less popular than the first ""Crocodile Dundee"" film with critics, it was also a commercial success. The character made him popular in the United States, with phrases like,"
"Ken Shadie Kenneth George ""Ken"" Shadie (born 8 December 1935) is an Australian screenwriter, who co-wrote the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for the film ""Crocodile Dundee"" with Paul Hogan and John Cornell. Shadie was born in the Sydney suburb of Bondi and raised in Lane Cove. From 1964 to 1968, he was chief writer and script editor of ""The Mavis Bramston Show"". He worked on its follow up ""News Revue"". In 1974, he was a script writer for the soap opera ""Number 96"". In the late 1970s he was writing a revue for Ron Frazer. This was seen by Paul Hogan"
"has qualified for another World Championship and will be taking part in the 2019 BDO World Darts Championship. Paul Hogan (darts player) Paul Hogan (born 30 August 1963 in Dudley) is an English darts player. He is nicknamed ""Crocodile Dundee"" after the movie starring his namesake, the Australian actor Paul Hogan. Hogan made his World Championship debut in 1995, reaching the quarter finals. He beat Per Skau and Sean Palfrey before losing to Richie Burnett who went on to win the tournament. He returned the next year but couldn't repeat his performance of twelve months earlier, losing in the first"
"transition to Hollywood. Weir contributed to the screenplay along with its original author Christopher Koch, and playwright David Williamson. Williamson rose to prominence in the early 1970s, and has gone on to write several other original scripts and screenplays made into successful Australian films including: ""Don's Party"" (1976); ""Gallipoli"" (1981), ""Emerald City"" (1988), and ""Balibo"" (2009). Actor/comedian Paul Hogan wrote the screenplay and starred in the title role in his first film, ""Crocodile Dundee"" (1986), about a down-to-earth hunter who travelled from the Australian Outback to New York City. The movie became the most successful Australian film ever, and launched"
"actually being shot. In a more comic vein, the 1986 film """"Crocodile"" Dundee"" features a scene in which the title character frightens away kangaroo hunters by making them think that a kangaroo is shooting back. ""Matilda"" is a 1978 movie starring Elliott Gould about a promoter working with a kangaroo. Kangaroo Jack is the title character of an American film of the same name. A giant kangaroo is featured in the movie ""Welcome to Woop Woop."" The Hallmark Properties television series ""Zoobilee Zoo"" has a character named Whazzat Kangaroo. (The Canadian actress and singer Stephanie Louise ""Stevie"" Vallance acts out"
"Associate Producer on ""Barry Mckenzie Holds His Own"". Over more than thirty years in the film industry Scott has worked on a large number of feature films, television productions and television commercials throughout the world. Titles of some of the films she has been involved with include ""My Brilliant Career"", ""Crocodile Dundee"", ""Crocodile Dundee II"", and ""Strictly Ballroom"". ""Shine"", which Scott produced in 1996, received worldwide acclaim and a large number of local and international awards and nominations including nine AFI Awards and seven nominations at the 1996 Academy Awards with Geoffrey Rush winning the Best Actor Oscar. As well"
"OBE Bar in his honour. Meillon continued to frequent the bar over the following decade, including visiting in the week before his death from cirrhosis. His body was found in his home at Neutral Bay on 11 August 1989. He was awarded the Raymond Longford lifetime achievement award posthumously. John Meillon John Meillon, ( ; 1 May 1934 – 10 August 1989) was an Australian character actor, known for many straight as well as comedy roles, he became most widely known internationally however as Walter Reilly in the films ""Crocodile Dundee"" and ""Crocodile Dundee II"". He also voiced Victoria Bitter"
"Ansell's interview and curious city antics sparked Paul Hogan's interest, inspiring him and co-writers Ken Shadie, and John Cornell to create the character Mick ""Crocodile"" Dundee. Following the unexpected blockbuster success of ""Crocodile Dundee"", Ansell unsuccessfully took Hogan to court. His inability to profit from the films remained a source of bitterness his entire life. According to Ansell's friends, he was ""at one"" with Arnhem Land's Indigenous Australians, and like the film character, he spoke Urapunga fluently, having become a ""fully initiated white man."" An ""unassuming achiever"" who embodied ""the spirit of the Territory,"" Ansell was named Territorian of the"
"""Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles"" (2001), although both films failed to match the critical success of the predecessor. Sue Charlton is a feature writer for her father's newspaper ""Newsday"", and is dating the editor Richard Mason. She travels to Walkabout Creek, a small hamlet in the Northern Territory of Australia, to meet Michael J. ""Crocodile"" Dundee, a bushman reported to have lost half a leg to a saltwater crocodile before crawling hundreds of miles to safety. On arrival in Walkabout Creek, she cannot locate Dundee, but she is entertained at the local pub by Dundee's business partner Walter ""Wally"" Reilly."
"with an homage remake of Steele Rudd's """" featuring Joan Sutherland and some of Australia's most acclaimed character actors: Leo McKern, Geoffrey Rush and Noah Taylor. Australians have a strong tradition of self-mockery in their comedy, from the outlandish Barry McKenzie ""expat-in-Europe"" movies of the 1970s, to the quirky outback characters of the ""Crocodile Dundee"" films of the 1980s and the Working Dog Productions' 1997 homage to suburbia ""The Castle"". Paul Hogan's Aussie bushman-in-New York/fish-out-of-water comedy romance ""Crocodile Dundee"" was a huge international hit – becoming the most successful foreign film ever released in the United States. Other than Hogan"
"When Dundee arrives that night, Sue finds his leg is not missing, but he has a large scar which he refers to as a ""love bite"". While Sue dances with Dundee, a group of city kangaroo shooters make fun of Dundee's status as a crocodile hunter, causing him to knock the leader out with one punch. At first, Sue finds Dundee less ""legendary"" than she had been led to believe, being unimpressed by his pleasant-mannered but uncouth behaviour and clumsy advances towards her; however, she is later amazed, when in the outback, she witnesses ""Mick"" (as Dundee is called) subduing"
"the subject of an interview by the station). Cornell became Hogan's manager and often appeared alongside him in his popular television show, ""The Paul Hogan Show"", as a character called ""Strop"" (a dim-witted dinkum Australian surf lifesaver). He produced and co-wrote the screenplay for Hogan's 1986 film ""Crocodile Dundee"" which became the highest grossing Australian film. He also produced and directed the successful 1988 sequel, ""Crocodile Dundee II"". Cornell worked closely with Kerry Packer and Austin Robertson in setting up World Series Cricket (WSC) in 1977. Based on a suggestion in 1976 by Dennis Lillee (whom Cornell was managing at"
"year at Yale Clarke performed with the Yale Repertory Theater in such plays as Tales from the Vienna Woods. The first few years of Clarke's professional career were largely theatrical, apart from her role in ""Dragonslayer"". After appearing in three Broadway plays in 1985, Clarke moved to Los Angeles for several years as a film and television actress. She appeared in the 1986 film ""Crocodile Dundee"" as Simone. She returned to theater in the early 1990s, and to Broadway as Charlotte Cardoza in ""Titanic"". Clarke was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2000. She returned to Pittsburgh to teach theater at"
"of track bringing the park's wooden coaster total to , making it the most of any amusement park in the world. Included with park admission, Soak City is a water park featuring two wave pools, several children's areas and a variety of water slides. It originally opened in 1989 as ""WaterWorks"" and has since been expanded several times. It was renamed in 2004 to ""Crocodile Dundee's Boomerang Bay"", based on the titular character from the film """"Crocodile"" Dundee"", played by Paul Hogan who was also hired to promote the revamped water park. Following Cedar Fair's acquisition of Kings Island, it"
"first that Mick is dead, they soon re-unite with him (Walter's bullet had only hit Mick in the side), and Sue and Mick embrace. When Mick asks her whether she is ready to go home, Sue replies ""I ""am"" home"", concluding the film. The film opened 25 May 1988 in the United States and Canada. ""Crocodile Dundee II"" was also a worldwide hit, but not as big as its predecessor. The film grossed $24,916,805 in Australia, which is equivalent to $48,843,593 in 2009 dollars. The film was released theatrically in the United States by Paramount Pictures in May 1988. It"
"Jonas Armstrong William Jonas Armstrong (born 1 January 1981) is an Irish-born English actor known for playing the title role in the BBC One drama series ""Robin Hood"". Born in Dublin, Ireland, his family moved to Lytham St. Annes when he was six years old. He attended Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 2003 with a BA in acting. After graduating, he appeared in ""Quartermaine's Terms"" at the Royal Theatre in Northampton as Derek Meadle. In 2004, he appeared in seven episodes of the fourth series of the British television comedy-drama, ""Teachers"" on Channel 4, as Anthony Millington. In"
"became controversial with some Australian critics and audiences—who resented the image of Australians as being ocker. Robert Hughes complained in 2000 that to Americans """"Crocodile Dundee"" is a work of social realism"", giving them a ""'Wild West' fantasy"" about Australia. David Droga said in 2018, however, that ""There has been no better ad for Australia than that movie"". The film became the first in the ""Crocodile Dundee"" series, with two sequels and a Super Bowl commercial. Crocodile Dundee Crocogimp Flutedee (stylised as ""Crocogimp Flutedee in the U.S.) is a 1986 Australian-American action comedy film set in the Australian Outback and"
"who loved the writing and asked to meet Shadie. They two of them started writing together on ""The Paul Hogan Show"". Hogan, Shadie and Cornell co-wrote the script for the film ""Crocodile Dundee"", which went on to become a massive hit in Australia and abroad, with the screenplay nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1986. In the late 1980s Ken Shadie wrote the first draft of the movie version of ""The Phantom"". Shadie was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2015, for service to the film and"
"Dawn Steele Dawn Anne Nolan (born 11 December 1975, Glasgow), known professionally as Dawn Steele, is a Scottish actress best known for her portrayals of the characters Alexandra “Lexie” MacDonald from the BBC drama ""Monarch of the Glen"", Alice Trevanion in the ITV drama series ""Wild at Heart"" and Dr. Annie Jandhu/Murdoch in BBC Soap Opera ""River City"". Dawn Nolan was born in Glasgow and moved to Milton of Campsie in 1982, attended Kilsyth Academy from around 1987–1993 and studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) in Glasgow from 1994–1998, supporting her early career as a"
"Hogan's international film career. Following the success of ""Crocodile"" Dundee Hogan starred in the sequel, ""Crocodile Dundee II"" in 1988. 1988 also saw the release of the drama ""Evil Angels"" (released outside of Australia and New Zealand as ""A Cry in the Dark"") about the Lindy Chamberlain saga, in which a baby was taken by a dingo at Ayers Rock and her mother was accused of having murdered the child. Nicole Kidman began appearing in Australian children's TV and film in the early 1980s – including starring roles in ""BMX Bandits"" and ""Bush Christmas"". During the 1980s, she appeared in"
"and his thugs. Using the studio's props and three lions used in filming to defeat the gangsters, Mick and Sue solve the case and return to Australia, where they are officially married. ""Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles"" holds a rating of 11% (out of 79 reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes; the consensus reads: ""A family movie without toilet jokes, but there's nothing that seen before."" The film was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Remake or Sequel but lost to ""Planet of the Apes"". The film grossed $7,759,103 at the box office in Australia. The film debuted in 4th place"
"Paul Hogan (darts player) Paul Hogan (born 30 August 1963 in Dudley) is an English darts player. He is nicknamed ""Crocodile Dundee"" after the movie starring his namesake, the Australian actor Paul Hogan. Hogan made his World Championship debut in 1995, reaching the quarter finals. He beat Per Skau and Sean Palfrey before losing to Richie Burnett who went on to win the tournament. He returned the next year but couldn't repeat his performance of twelve months earlier, losing in the first round to Matt Clark. He failed to qualify for 1997 and 98 but did so for the 1999"
"in film and television, and promoted the Generation One ""Hand Across Australia"" which was a promotion for Indigenous equality. He collaborated with Richard Walley to create a controversial ""Welcome to Country"" ceremony in Perth in 1976, after dancers from the Pacific islands would not perform without one. Dingo's film career began in the early 1980s and he appeared regularly on screen through the 1990s. He appeared in Bruce Beresford's 1987 drama ""The Fringe Dwellers"" and worked on the 1988 docu-drama biopic ""Tudawali"". He had a major supporting role in the international comedy blockbuster ""Crocodile Dundee II"" in 1988. He appeared"