Save Share John Cornell, a journalist who struck fame as Paul Hoganâs mumbling TV sidekick âStropâ and went on to produce the Crocodile Dundee movie franchise, has died after a 20-year battle with Parkinsonâs disease. He was 80. An almost accidental TV star, Cornell was also influential off-camera, becoming a key confidant of Kerry Packer during the World Series Cricket revolution and becoming Hoganâs right-hand man during Dundeeâs worldwide success . He died at his home in Byron Bay, on the NSW North Coast, with his wife, Delvene Delaney, and eldest daughter by his side, and his youngest daughter on the phone from Britain.