Paul Hogan, "Crocodile Dundee" Star, Prevented From Leaving Australia

(CBS)

"Crocodile Dundee" star Paul Hogan, who lives with his family in Los Angles,, is being barred from laving Australia, where he had attended his mother's funeral, because of a dispute with the government over taxes.

His lawyers said tax officials have served 70-year-old actor with an order stopping him from leaving the country. Hogan,, who gained fame playing Mick "Crocodile" Dundee in the 1986 hit, was "stunned and disappointed" by the order, said the statement from Andrew Robinson of Sydney law firm Robinson Legal.

The action caps a five year battle between the actor and the Australia Tax Office over an alleged multi-million-dollar unpaid tax bill.

The actor, who was born in New South Wales, Australia , and had worked in TV and movies in that country, returned to Sydney last Friday for the funeral of his 101-year-old mother Florence.