Sir Sam Neill has died aged 78 in Sydney, Australia, with his family confirming he died on 13 July while surrounded by relatives and remained cancer-free following treatment for stage-three blood cancer diagnosed in 2023.
Neill, who lived in Central Otago and owned the ‘Two Paddocks’ vineyard, had a film and television career spanning more than five decades, with notable roles including Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, The Piano, Sleeping Dogs, Hunt for the Wilderpeople and The Twelve. He received an OBE in 1991, an honorary doctorate from the University of Canterbury in 2002, the New Zealand Screen Legend Award in 2025, and multiple Australian Logie Awards.
He is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren.
This ís very sad news. Big aroma and condolences to the family.
Sorry I typed aroha. Even in death we are mocked by autocorrect.
Auto correct is my mortal enemy too…..
First Lindsay graham , now nigel Neil…..what a week eh – one a childless warmonger, the other a woke Hollywood lovey….i really will miss ‘Sam’s’ takes on how we should all do better….. including climate change although I am unsure if he took a gas guzzling carbon depleting plane to Sydney……am I too bitter? Who will defend the frogs of central Otago? Could i be more gracious? Yes of course I could but I am just sooooooo exhausted with the hypocrisy snd the self serving nature of these people…..
I hear you.
Then there is the vax pushing stance and love of cindy.
Cindy the man child
A bit uncharitable, don’t you think? I’m talking about Sam Neill BTW (should be obvious but you never know)……….
Far out man. Two completely different cases. Sam genuinely meant well and looked out for others and the environment.
New Zealand lost a great man.
Genuinely sorry to hear this. Saw an interview with him years back, very much your classic Kiwi, down to earth and self deprecating. He will be greatly missed. RIP.
He was an actor…….you bought it
He’s with Robin Williams now.
Yeah… he was as WOKE as they come – with a nasty side exacerbated by a booze problem.
His actual name was Nigel John Dermot Neill from Ireland & he was a Christs College Syrup – although he pretended he was from a poor Irish background.
The usual socialist/boomer hypocrisy. Could have been the new Sam Shepard – but sold out to HOLLYWOOD & the Epsteins.
Fairly weak sort of an actor, he could have been great & led the young men over the top, like Mel Gibson so to speak; but he fell into faining feminism.
Another ‘Actor’ playing a part.
Would’ve slave-muzzled/spitmasked-up and injected big-pharma clot-shots around 2021 or so,
Body and immune-system would’ve started to f*ck-out within a few weeks. Cancers and other sicknessess
would’ve really started to kick-in and take hold within about a year to eighteen months. Quacks would’ve started pumping him full off list after list of more big-pharma substances. May have been re-injected with even more clot-shots. Internal organs would’ve been still seething with spike-protiens right thru to this year.
Body inevitably collapsed and ended it all “suddenly without warning” JUST LIKE ALL THE MILLIONS OF OTHER BIG-PHARMA MURDER VICTIMS.
I know a couple who both got turbo cancer in 2024. Died 2 months later 2 weeks apart. Shocking as they were lovely people. I can’t help but wonder if they got the same bad batch.
Covid jabbed and boosted followed by blood cancer, but the worst part was his ignorance of the dangers of these gene therapy shots.
Then he had the gaul to publicly push these same killer jabs on to the NZ public.
To me he will be remembered as a fool who willingly drank the ‘cool aid’ which actually killed him.
Amen