No, never met Paul Hogan but I met his first wife. I was working at Mr Minit fixing shoes and she used to stop by to get her shoes re heeled, the character of Mick "Crocodile" Dundee was loosely based on Rod Ansell, an Australian cattle grazier and bushman who gained fame in 1977 for surviving 56 days in the remote Northern Territory wilderness after his boat capsized, forcing him to live off the land and battle crocodiles