John Cornell
John Cornell ( born February 2, 1941 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia ) is an Australian film director, screenwriter and film producer. He became internationally known through the movies Crocodile Dundee - A crocodile for kissing, Crocodile Dundee II and Almost An Angel.
Life and career
John Cornell, born in 1941 in Australia Kalgoorlie, grew up in Bunbury on in the state of Western Australia. First he put his professional focus on journalism with reporting for the newspaper The Daily News about local events in Perth. Since the early 1970s, he was in the film industry in various capacities working, including as director, screenwriter and producer.
In 1971, John Cornell had changed from the newspaper industry for television and where he took a job as a producer for the nightly national news program A Current Affair. There, John Cornell grew up in the role of the silent partner in the Paul Hogan success story. As a producer for the television news magazine John Cornell, Paul Hogan was spotted in the new talent show New Faces and taken as a comedian and actor under contract. In 1972, John Cornell and Paul Hogan JP Productions. In 1977 Cornell for his longtime friend finally the television series The Paul Hogan Show.
1986 John Cornell was achieved with the romantic adventure comedy Crocodile Dundee - A crocodile to kiss with Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski in the lead roles in his dual role as writer and producer of the film a huge success. The Director, a native of Melbourne Peter Faiman had taken over. John Cornell had offered the film to the companies 20th Century Fox, led by Rupert Murdoch for lending, but there you refused on the grounds that the film would not work in Hollywood. In Paramount Pictures finally found a rental. The film played as a blockbuster worldwide over $ 300 million dollars. The next episode of the success story of the charming Australian daredevils staged Cornell as a director with the sequel Crocodile Dundee II in 1988, equal to itself as a director and producer of the film he put in the second part much more emphasis on action and drama.
In 1990, he realized then with the romantic drama Almost An Angel, another film project with Paul Hogan and his wife Linda Kozlowski.
John Cornell has two daughters, he lives with his wife Delvene Delaney in Australia.