Sam Neill
Sir Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill (born 14 September 1947) is a New Zealand actor. His career has included leading roles in both dramas and blockbusters. Considered an "international leading man", he is regarded as one of the most versatile actors of his generation. Born in Northern Ireland to an English mother and New Zealand father, Neill moved to Christchurch with his family in 1954. He first achieved recognition with his appearance in the film Sleeping Dogs (1977), which he followed with leading roles in My Brilliant Career (1979), Omen III: The Final Conflict, Possession (both 1981), Evil Angels (also known as A Cry in the Dark) (1988), Dead Calm (1989), The Hunt For Red October (1990), The Piano (1993), and In the Mouth of Madness (1994). He came to international prominence as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park (1993), reprising the role in Jurassic Park III (2001) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022). Outside of film, Neill has appeared in numerous television series in guest and recurring roles, including Reilly, Ace of Spies (1983), The Simpsons (1994), The Tudors (2007), Crusoe (2008–2010), Happy Town (2010), Alcatraz (2012), and Rick and Morty (2019). He also starred as the titular character Merlin in Merlin (1998) and Merlin's Apprentice (2006) and as Major Chester Campbell in the first two series of Peaky Blinders (2013–2014). He has presented and narrated several documentaries. Neill receives the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, the Longford Lyell Award, the New Zealand Film Award, and the Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor. He also has three Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. He won the Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor at the 2023 Logies. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Neill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2027 · Godzilla x Kong: Supernova as
- 2024 · The Assembly as Self
- 2024 · T. REX as Narrator
- 2022 · Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World as Self
- 2021 · Trial In The Outback: The Lindy Chamberlain Story as Self - Host
- 2021 · The Real Hunt for Red October as Self
- 2019 · Ride Like a Girl as Paddy Payne
- 2019 · Blackbird as Tom
- 2018 · Anika Moa Unleashed as Self
- 2017 · Tommy's Honour as Alexander Boothby
- 2016 · Tutankhamun as Lord Carnarvon
- 2015 · The Daughter as Walter
- 2015 · MindGamers as Kreutz
- 2015 · The Dovekeepers as
- 2014 · United Passions as Joao Havelange
- 2014 · A Long Way Down as Chris Crichton
- 2013 · The Ordained as Governor Michael Thomas Riley
- 2011 · Ice as Anthony Kavanagh
- 2009 · Under the Mountain as Mr. Jones
- 2009 · Iron Road as Alfred Nichol
- 2008 · Skin as Abraham Laing
- 2006 · Two Twisted as Mick
- 2006 · Merlin's Apprentice as Merlin
- 2004 · Jessica as Richard Runche
- 2003 · Perfect Strangers as Man
- 2001 · The Zookeeper as Ludovic
- 2000 · The Dish as Cliff Buxton - Dish Master
- 2000 · My Mother Frank as Professor Mortlock
- 2000 · Sally Hemings: An American Scandal as Thomas Jefferson
- 1997 · Forgotten Silver as Self
- 1997 · The Rainbow Warrior as Chief Inspector Alan Galbraith
- 1996 · In Cold Blood as Agent Alvin Dewey
- 1994 · Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects as Self
- 1992 · Hostage as John Rennie
- 1991 · Until the End of the World as Eugene Fitzpatrick
- 1991 · Fever as Elliot
- 1989 · The French Revolution as Marquis de Lafayette
- 1988 · Question of Faith as Oscar Ogg
- 1987 · The Good Wife as Neville Gifford
- 1987 · Amerika as Colonel Andrei Denisov
- 1986 · For Love Alone as James Quick
- 1986 · Strong Medicine as Vince Lord
- 1985 · Kane & Abel as William Lowell Kane
- 1985 · Robbery Under Arms as Capt. Starlight
- 1982 · Attack Force Z as Sergeant Costello
- 1982 · Ivanhoe as Brian de Bois-Guilbert
- 1979 · The Journalist as Rex
- 1977 · The Governor as Colonial Bachelor
- 1975 · Four Shorts on Architecture as Narrator (voice)
- 1972 · The Water Cycle as
- 1951 · Hallmark Hall of Fame as British Flier
- Future · The Last Resort as Gerard
- 2025 · But Also John Clarke as Self
- 2025 · UNTAMED as Paul Souter
- 2024 · Apples Never Fall as Stan Delaney
- 2023 · Bring Him to Me as Frank
- 2023 · Scarygirl as Dr. Maybee (voice)
- 2023 · The Portable Door as Dennis Tanner
- 2023 · Assassin Club as Caldwell
- 2022 · Thor: Love and Thunder as Actor Odin
- 2022 · The Twelve as Brett Colby
- 2022 · Voice Activated as Audiobook Narrator (voice)
- 2022 · Jurassic World Dominion as Alan Grant
- 2021 · Invasion as Jim Bell Tyson
- 2021 · Russell Howard Stands Up to the World as Self
- 2021 · Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway as Tommy Brock (voice)
- 2021 · Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal as Frankie Scales (voice)
- 2020 · Rams as Colin
- 2020 · Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story as Narrator (voice)
- 2020 · Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story as Self - Narrator
- 2020 · Sea Lions: Life By a Whisker as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 · The Movies That Made Us as Self
- 2019 · The Show Must Go On as Self
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- 2019 · Palm Beach as Leo
- 2019 · Flack as Duncan Paulson
- 2018 · The Pacific: In The Wake of Captain Cook as Self - Host
- 2018 · Peter Rabbit as Mr. McGregor / Tommy Brock (voice)
- 2018 · Sweet Country as Fred Smith
- 2018 · The Commuter as Captain Hawthorne
- 2017 · Thor: Ragnarok as Actor Odin
- 2017 · Get Krack!n as Self
- 2017 · House of Bond as Roland “Tiny” Rowland
- 2017 · David Stratton: A Cinematic Life as Self
- 2016 · New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands as Narrator (voice)
- 2016 · New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands as Narrator (voice)
- 2016 · Hunt for the Wilderpeople as Hec
- 2015 · And Then There Were None as General John MacArthur
- 2015 · Backtrack as Duncan Stewart
- 2015 · Why Anzac with Sam Neill as Self
- 2015 · House of Hancock as Lang Hancock
- 2014 · Old School as Ted McCabe
- 2013 · River Deep, Mountain High: James Nesbitt in New Zealand as Self
- 2013 · The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box as Otto Luger
- 2013 · Rick and Morty as Monogatron Leader (voice)
- 2013 · Escape Plan as Dr. Kyrie
- 2013 · Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery as Self
- 2013 · Peaky Blinders as C.I. Chester Campbell
- 2013 · Peaky Blinders as Major Chester Campbell
- 2013 · Harry as DSS Jim Stockton
- 2012 · The Vow as Bill Thornton
- 2012 · Alcatraz as Emerson Hauser
- 2011 · The Hunter as Jack Mindy
- 2011 · The Story of Film: An Odyssey as Self
- 2011 · The Dragon Pearl as Chris Chase
- 2011 · Return to Jurassic Park as Self
- 2011 · Ice as Anthony Kavanagh
- 2010 · Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole as Allomere (voice)
- 2010 · The Making of Daybreakers as Self
- 2010 · Happy Town as Merritt Grieves
- 2010 · Daybreakers as Charles Bromley
- 2009 · Iron Road as Alfred Nichol
- 2009 · In Her Skin as Mr. Reid
- 2009 · The Man in the Hat as Reader of Correspondence
- 2008 · Dean Spanley as Dean Spanley
- 2008 · Crusoe as Jeremiah Blackthorn
- 2008 · Verity Lambert: Drama Queen as Narrator
- 2007 · The Pixar Story as Alan Grant (archive footage)
- 2007 · The Tudors as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · Angel as Théo
- 2006 · Irresistible as Craig
- 2006 · The Making of 'Event Horizon' as Self
- 2006 · Working with a Master: John Carpenter as Self
- 2006 · Voyage of the Nautilus as Hubert Wilkins
- 2005 · The Triangle as
- 2005 · The Triangle as Eric Benerall
- 2005 · The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant as Governor Arthur Phillip
- 2005 · Yes as Anthony
- 2005 · Little Fish as The Jockey
- 2005 · To the Ends of the Earth as Mr. Prettiman
- 2005 · New Zild - The Story of New Zealand English as Self
- 2005 · Gallipoli as Narrator
- 2004 · Colin McCahon: I Am as Narrator
- 2004 · Wimbledon as Dennis Bradbury
- 2004 · Jessica as
- 2004 · Stiff as Lionel Merricks
- 2004 · The Making of Sleeping Dogs as Self
- 2002 · Doctor Zhivago as Victor Komarovsky
- 2002 · Dirty Deeds as Ray
- 2002 · Framed as Eddie Meyers
- 2001 · The Making Of Jurassic Park III as Self
- 2001 · Richard & Judy as Self
- 2001 · SuperCroc as narrator
- 2001 · Space as Himself
- 2001 · Jurassic Park III as Dr. Alan Grant
- 2001 · Submerged as Lt. Cmdr. Charles B. 'Swede' Momsen
- 2000 · The Magic Pudding as Sam Sawnoff (voice)
- 2000 · Inside The Living Daylights as Self (archival footage)
- 2000 · Sally Hemings: An American Scandal as Thomas Jefferson
- 2000 · Numero Bruno as Self
- 1999 · Bicentennial Man as Sir
- 1999 · Rove as Self
- 1999 · Molokai: The Story of Father Damien as Prime Minister Gibson
- 1998 · The Games as Citytrans World CEO
- 1998 · The Revengers' Comedies as Henry Bell
- 1998 · Merlin as Merlin
- 1998 · The Horse Whisperer as Robert MacLean
- 1997 · Event Horizon as Weir
- 1997 · Snow White: A Tale of Terror as Lord Friedrich Hoffman
- 1996 · Children of the Revolution as David 'Dave' Hoyle, aka Agent 'Nine'
- 1996 · Victory as Mr. Jones
- 1996 · Australian Story as Self
- 1995 · Restoration as King Charles II
- 1995 · Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill as Narrator / Host
- 1995 · The Making of 'Jurassic Park' as Self / Alan Grant
- 1995 · In the Mouth of Madness as John Trent
- 1994 · The Jungle Book as Colonel Geofferey Brydon
- 1994 · Country Life as Dr. Max Askey
- 1994 · Sirens as Norman Lindsay
- 1993 · Split Enz: Spellbound as Narrator
- 1993 · Jurassic Park as Grant
- 1993 · The Piano as Alisdair Stewart
- 1993 · Family Pictures as David Eberlin
- 1993 · Inside 'The Piano' as Self
- 1992 · Memoirs of an Invisible Man as David Jenkins
- 1991 · One Against the Wind as Major James Leggatt, The Guards
- 1991 · Death in Brunswick as Carl
- 1990 · Shadow of China as TV Reporter
- 1990 · The Hunt for Red October as Capt. 2nd Vasily Borodin
- 1990 · Cowboys of Culture as Self
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Molloy (voice)
- 1989 · Dead Calm as John Ingram
- 1988 · Evil Angels as Michael Chamberlain
- 1986 · Strong Medicine as Vince Lord
- 1985 · Plenty as Lazar
- 1984 · The Blood of Others as Bergman
- 1984 · The Country Girls as Mr. Gentleman
- 1983 · Reilly: Ace of Spies as Sidney Reilly
- 1982 · Enigma as Dimitri Vasilikov
- 1981 · From a Far Country as Marian
- 1981 · Possession as Mark
- 1981 · The Final Conflict as Damien Thorn
- 1980 · Lucinda Brayford as Tony Duff
- 1979 · Just Out Of Reach as Mike
- 1979 · My Brilliant Career as Harry Beecham
- 1978 · Surf Sail as Narrator (voice)
- 1977 · Sleeping Dogs as Smith
- 1977 · Architect Athfield as Narrator
- 1976 · The Sullivans as Ben Dawson
- 1975 · Ashes as Priest
- 1975 · Landfall as Eric
- 1973 · Hunt's Duffer as Bradley
- 1971 · The City of No as
- Future · Mystery Ride as Duncan Connelly