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.
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