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Paul Hogan
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Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Actor
Born:
October 8, 1939 in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales
Biography:Australian actor "Paul Hogan" was mellow-voiced and rugged enough to succeed as an action hero, but he loved making people laugh, something he'd been doing on a professional basis since his debut as a blindfolded, tap dancing knife thrower on the Aussie TV amateur contest "New Faces". With his late-1970s weekly half hour TV show "The Paul Hogan Show", he became the most popular comedian in Australia. His material was limited to a handful of subjects -- breasts, bums, beer, and soccer -- but the series' selling card was Hogan's ability to play a wide variety of distinct characterizations, sometimes making the transition from one character to another so quickly that he literally seemed to be two different people. Hogan was able to expand his popularity to England with a series of commercials for Australian Lager Beer; but though "The Paul Hogan Show" had been shown on a smattering of American... Full Biography
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