Kel – the NT’s Buffalo Dundee

By Megan Stafford
Updated December 17 2015 - 9:55am, first published March 18 2014 - 12:35pm
On the set of Crocodile Dundee at Fogg Dam, near Darwin, before Kel injected Charlie the Buffalo with a muscle relaxant (L-R) Paul Hogan, Kel Small, Henry Rainger, Les Jackson, a crew member,Hogan’s stand-in, and Charlie the Buffalo.
On the set of Crocodile Dundee at Fogg Dam, near Darwin, before Kel injected Charlie the Buffalo with a muscle relaxant (L-R) Paul Hogan, Kel Small, Henry Rainger, Les Jackson, a crew member,Hogan’s stand-in, and Charlie the Buffalo.

NOT even Paul Hogan can say he was the one who actually eased Charlie the Buffalo to sleep in the Australian classic, Crocodile Dundee. In truth, it was a Queensland veterinarian who was bestowed the honour.

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