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: Acting

Born: Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK, 1947-09-14

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	The City of No		70
2	1972	The Water Cycle		0
3	1973	Hunt's Duffer	Bradley	70
4	1975	Landfall	Eric	0
5	1975	Ashes	Priest	0
6	1975	Four Shorts on Architecture	Narrator (voice)	0
7	1977	Architect Athfield	Narrator	0
8	1977	Sleeping Dogs	Smith	57
9	1978	Surf Sail	Narrator (voice)	0
10	1979	My Brilliant Career	Harry Beecham	62
11	1979	Just Out Of Reach	Mike	0
12	1979	The Journalist	Rex	40
13	1981	The Final Conflict	Damien Thorn	58
14	1981	Possession	Mark	73
15	1981	From a Far Country	Marian	39
16	1982	Ivanhoe	Brian de Bois-Guilbert	63
17	1982	Attack Force Z	Sergeant Costello	60
18	1982	Enigma	Dimitri Vasilikov	56
19	1984	The Country Girls	Mr. Gentleman	0
20	1984	The Blood of Others	Bergman	50
21	1985	Robbery Under Arms	Capt. Starlight	64
22	1985	Plenty	Lazar	57
23	1986	Strong Medicine	Vince Lord	70
24	1986	For Love Alone	James Quick	34
25	1987	The Good Wife	Neville Gifford	48
26	1988	Question of Faith	Oscar Ogg	0
27	1988	Evil Angels	Michael Chamberlain	67
28	1989	Dead Calm	John Ingram	66
29	1989	The French Revolution	Marquis de Lafayette	75
30	1990	Cowboys of Culture	Self	0
31	1990	The Hunt for Red October	Capt. 2nd Vasily Borodin	74
32	1990	Shadow of China	TV Reporter	70
33	1991	Death in Brunswick	Carl	60
34	1991	Fever	Elliot	38
35	1991	Until the End of the World	Eugene Fitzpatrick	68
36	1991	One Against the Wind	Major James Leggatt, The Guards	68
37	1992	Memoirs of an Invisible Man	David Jenkins	59
38	1992	Hostage	John Rennie	32
39	1993	Inside 'The Piano'	Self	0
40	1993	Family Pictures	David Eberlin	70
41	1993	The Piano	Alisdair Stewart	74
42	1993	Jurassic Park	Grant	80
43	1993	Split Enz: Spellbound	Narrator	0
44	1994	Sirens	Norman Lindsay	56
45	1994	Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects	Self	0
46	1994	Country Life	Dr. Max Askey	56
47	1994	The Jungle Book	Colonel Geofferey Brydon	59
48	1995	In the Mouth of Madness	John Trent	72
49	1995	The Making of 'Jurassic Park'	Self / Alan Grant	72
50	1995	Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill	Narrator / Host	50
51	1995	Restoration	King Charles II	60
52	1996	Victory	Mr. Jones	51
53	1996	Children of the Revolution	David 'Dave' Hoyle, aka Agent 'Nine'	57
54	1997	The Rainbow Warrior	Chief Inspector Alan Galbraith	50
55	1997	Snow White: A Tale of Terror	Lord Friedrich Hoffman	61
56	1997	Event Horizon	Weir	66
57	1997	Forgotten Silver	Self	72
58	1998	The Horse Whisperer	Robert MacLean	69
59	1998	Merlin	Merlin	0
60	1998	The Revengers' Comedies	Henry Bell	58
61	1999	Molokai: The Story of Father Damien	Prime Minister Gibson	60
62	1999	Bicentennial Man	Sir	73
63	2000	Numero Bruno	Self	0
64	2000	Sally Hemings: An American Scandal	Thomas Jefferson	76
65	2000	My Mother Frank	Professor Mortlock	40
66	2000	Inside The Living Daylights	Self (archival footage)	80
67	2000	The Dish	Cliff Buxton - Dish Master	67
68	2000	The Magic Pudding	Sam Sawnoff (voice)	51
69	2001	Submerged	Lt. Cmdr. Charles B. 'Swede' Momsen	48
70	2001	Jurassic Park III	Dr. Alan Grant	62
71	2001	SuperCroc	narrator	70
72	2001	The Zookeeper	Ludovic	65
73	2001	The Making Of Jurassic Park III	Self	0
74	2002	Framed	Eddie Meyers	52
75	2002	Dirty Deeds	Ray	56
76	2003	Perfect Strangers	Man	42
77	2004	The Making of Sleeping Dogs	Self	0
78	2004	Stiff	Lionel Merricks	72
79	2004	Jessica	Richard Runche	70
80	2004	Wimbledon	Dennis Bradbury	62
81	2004	Colin McCahon: I Am	Narrator	0
82	2005	Gallipoli	Narrator	71
83	2005	New Zild - The Story of New Zealand English	Self	0
84	2005	Little Fish	The Jockey	58
85	2005	Yes	Anthony	58
86	2006	Voyage of the Nautilus	Hubert Wilkins	55
87	2006	Working with a Master: John Carpenter	Self	60
88	2006	Irresistible	Craig	54
89	2006	The Making of 'Event Horizon'	Self	74
90	2007	Angel	Théo	55
91	2007	The Pixar Story	Alan Grant (archive footage)	76
92	2008	Verity Lambert: Drama Queen	Narrator	0
93	2008	Skin	Abraham Laing	65
94	2008	Dean Spanley	Dean Spanley	74
95	2009	The Man in the Hat	Reader of Correspondence	0
96	2009	In Her Skin	Mr. Reid	60
97	2009	Iron Road	Alfred Nichol	63
98	2009	Under the Mountain	Mr. Jones	46
99	2010	Daybreakers	Charles Bromley	63
100	2010	The Making of Daybreakers	Self	70
101	2010	Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole	Allomere (voice)	68
102	2011	Ice	Anthony Kavanagh	56
103	2011	Return to Jurassic Park	Self	66
104	2011	The Dragon Pearl	Chris Chase	48
105	2011	The Hunter	Jack Mindy	66
106	2012	The Vow	Bill Thornton	72
107	2013	The Ordained	Governor Michael Thomas Riley	10
108	2013	Escape Plan	Dr. Kyrie	67
109	2013	The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box	Otto Luger	57
110	2013	River Deep, Mountain High: James Nesbitt in New Zealand	Self	50
111	2014	A Long Way Down	Chris Crichton	62
112	2014	United Passions	Joao Havelange	33
113	2015	Why Anzac with Sam Neill	Self	0
114	2015	Backtrack	Duncan Stewart	58
115	2015	MindGamers	Kreutz	46
116	2015	The Daughter	Walter	64
117	2016	Hunt for the Wilderpeople	Hec	76
118	2016	New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands	Narrator (voice)	78
119	2017	David Stratton: A Cinematic Life	Self	38
120	2017	Tommy's Honour	Alexander Boothby	68
121	2017	Thor: Ragnarok	Actor Odin	76
122	2018	The Commuter	Captain Hawthorne	64
123	2018	Sweet Country	Fred Smith	67
124	2018	Peter Rabbit	Mr. McGregor / Tommy Brock (voice)	67
125	2019	Palm Beach	Leo	53
126	2019	Blackbird	Tom	68
127	2019	Ride Like a Girl	Paddy Payne	73
128		Mystery Ride	Duncan Connelly	0
129		The Guinea Pig Club	Charles Overton	0
130	2019	The Show Must Go On	Self	30
131	2020	Sea Lions: Life By a Whisker	Narrator (voice)	60
132	2020	Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story	Narrator (voice)	65
133	2020	Rams	Colin	64
134	2021	Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal	Frankie Scales (voice)	65
135	2021	Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway	Tommy Brock (voice)	71
136	2022	Jurassic World Dominion	Alan Grant	67
137	2022	Jurassic Greatest Moments: Jurassic Park to Jurassic World	Self	70
138	2022	Voice Activated	Audiobook Narrator (voice)	70
139	2022	Thor: Love and Thunder	Actor Odin	64
140	2023	Assassin Club	Caldwell	59
141	2023	The Portable Door	Dennis Tanner	65
142	2023	Scarygirl	Dr. Maybee (voice)	69
143	2023	Bring Him to Me	Frank	56
144	2024	T. REX	Narrator	50
145	2025	But Also John Clarke	Self	0
146	2027	Godzilla x Kong: Supernova		0
147		The Last Resort	Gerard	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	British Flier	86
2	1976	The Sullivans	Ben Dawson	51
3	1977	The Governor	Colonial Bachelor	0
4	1980	Lucinda Brayford	Tony Duff	0
5	1983	Reilly: Ace of Spies	Sidney Reilly	70
6	1985	Kane & Abel	William Lowell Kane	76
7	1986	Strong Medicine	Vince Lord	0
8	1987	Amerika	Colonel Andrei Denisov	54
9	1989	The Simpsons	Molloy (voice)	80
10	1996	Australian Story	Self	48
11	1996	In Cold Blood	Agent Alvin Dewey	60
12	1998	Merlin	Merlin	69
13	1998	The Games	Citytrans World CEO	70
14	1999	Rove	Self	80
15	2000	Sally Hemings: An American Scandal	Thomas Jefferson	80
16	2001	Space	Himself	74
17	2001	Richard & Judy	Self	29
18	2002	Doctor Zhivago	Victor Komarovsky	67
19	2004	Jessica		56
20	2005	To the Ends of the Earth	Mr. Prettiman	62
21	2005	The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant	Governor Arthur Phillip	72
22	2005	The Triangle		62
23	2005	The Triangle	Eric Benerall	62
24	2006	Merlin's Apprentice	Merlin	48
25	2006	Two Twisted	Mick	60
26	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
27	2007	The Tudors	Cardinal Thomas Wolsey	78
28	2008	Crusoe	Jeremiah Blackthorn	68
29	2009	Iron Road	Alfred Nichol	83
30	2010	Happy Town	Merritt Grieves	58
31	2011	Ice	Anthony Kavanagh	100
32	2011	The Story of Film: An Odyssey	Self	76
33	2012	Alcatraz	Emerson Hauser	64
34	2013	Harry	DSS Jim Stockton	65
35	2013	Peaky Blinders	C.I. Chester Campbell	85
36	2013	Peaky Blinders	Major Chester Campbell	85
37	2013	Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery	Self	70
38	2013	Rick and Morty	Monogatron Leader (voice)	87
39	2014	Old School	Ted McCabe	78
40	2015	House of Hancock	Lang Hancock	67
41	2015	The Dovekeepers		60
42	2015	And Then There Were None	General John MacArthur	76
43	2016	New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands	Narrator (voice)	92
44	2016	Tutankhamun	Lord Carnarvon	64
45	2017	House of Bond	Roland “Tiny” Rowland	40
46	2017	Get Krack!n	Self	61
47	2018	Anika Moa Unleashed	Self	30
48	2018	The Pacific: In The Wake of Captain Cook	Self - Host	70
49	2019	Flack	Duncan Paulson	70
50	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show	Self	65
51	2019	The Movies That Made Us	Self	72
52	2020	Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story	Self - Narrator	0
53	2021	Russell Howard Stands Up to the World	Self	10
54	2021	The Real Hunt for Red October	Self	55
55	2021	Trial In The Outback: The Lindy Chamberlain Story	Self - Host	50
56	2021	Invasion	Jim Bell Tyson	71
57	2022	The Twelve	Brett Colby	76
58	2024	Apples Never Fall	Stan Delaney	62
59	2024	The Assembly	Self	0
60	2025	UNTAMED	Paul Souter	0

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