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Save Share John Cornell, a journalist who struck fame as Paul Hogan’s mumbling TV sidekick “Strop” and went on to produce the Crocodile Dundee movie franchise, has died after a 20-year battle with Parkinson’s 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 Hogan’s right-hand man during Dundee’s worldwide success . He died at his home in Byron Bay, on the NSW North Coast, with his wife, Delvene Delaney, and eldest daughter b...

Crocodile Dundee in tribute to the late John Cornell tomorrow night. Cornell, who died this morning aged 80, was executive producer and co-writer of the hit 1986 film starring pal, Paul Hogan. An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City. The film will screen at 8:30pm in place of a planned Bumblebee film.

Paul and Strop at Hotel Brunswick for a commercial shoot in 2019. Cornell, known to many as ‘Strop’ after his character on the Paul Hogan Show, had a number of very successful high profile business ventures in his life. He was an intelligent and creative force behind World Series Cricket and the Crocodile Dundee films as well as the purchaser of both the Hotel Brunswick and the Beach Hotel in early 1990s, a move credited with putting Byron on the map for city visitors. Cornell, a journalist, met Paul Hogan whilst working on A Current Affair, and became his manager, later appearing as ...

Cornell was new to film producing when he and Hogan went to Kakadu for the shoot after raising the $8 million budget through private investors, including rock singer Michael Hutchence and leading cricketers, under the country’s tax incentives at the time. “It’s gunna be good,” he told visiting journalists with a showman’s confidence. He was right. Director Peter Faiman’s comedy about outback adventurer Mick Dundee took a triumphant $US328 million around the world. The only film to sell more tickets that year was Top Gun. Loading Cornell joined Hogan and Ken Shadie in being nomin...

Lockdown takes toll as Telegraph puts heat on Gladys Berejiklian and her health minister The NSW health minister, Brad Hazzard, called out News Corp’s reporting of premier Gladys Berejiklian’s coffee break with her boyfriend. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP The NSW health minister, Brad Hazzard, called out News Corp’s reporting of premier Gladys Berejiklian’s coffee break with her boyfriend. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP Thu 22 Jul 2021 23.41 EDT Last modified on Fri 23 Jul 2021 03.20 EDT When the Daily Telegraph shamed Gladys Berejiklian on page one for grabbing a coffee with her boyfriend...