Sam Neill
Nigel John Dermot "Sam" Neill (born 14 September 1947) is a New Zealand actor. He is perhaps best known for his starring role as paleontologist Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III. He has also had a number of high-profile roles including: the lead in Reilly, Ace of Spies, the adult Damien in Omen III: The Final Conflict, Merlin in the miniseries Merlin, Captain Vasily Borodin in The Hunt for Red October, Lord Friedrich Hoffman in Snow White: A Tale of Terror, and Alisdair Stewart in The Piano. Most recently he played Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in the Peace Arch Entertainment production for Showtime, The Tudors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Neill licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Sep 14, 1947 In Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 154
- First Appeared:
- In the series Hallmark Hall of Fame 1951-12-24
- Latest Project:
- Series Apples Never Fall 2024-03-14
Known For
Filmography
| Series | Apples Never Fall | Stan Delaney | 2024-03-14 |
| Movie | The Portable Door | Dennis Tanner | 2023-03-23 |
| Movie | Assassin Club | Caldwell | 2023-02-24 |
| Movie | Scarygirl | Dr. Maybee (voice) | 2023-10-05 |
| Movie | Jurassic World Dominion | Alan Grant | 2022-06-01 |
| Series | The Twelve | Brett Colby | 2022-06-21 |
| Movie | Thor: Love and Thunder | Actor Odin | 2022-07-06 |
| Movie | Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway | Tommy Brock (voice) | 2021-03-25 |
| Movie | Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal | Frankie Scales (voice) | 2021-02-04 |
| Series | The Real Hunt for Red October | Self | 2021-06-13 |
| Series | Invasion | Jim Bell Tyson | 2021-10-21 |
| Movie | Rams | Colin | 2020-10-15 |
| Movie | Palm Beach | Leo | 2019-08-08 |
| Movie | Blackbird | Tom | 2019-09-06 |
| Movie | Ride Like a Girl | Paddy Payne | 2019-09-26 |
| Movie | The Show Must Go On | Self | 2019-10-08 |
| Movie | The Commuter | Captain Hawthorne | 2018-01-11 |
| Movie | Sweet Country | Fred Smith | 2018-01-25 |
| Movie | Peter Rabbit | Mr. McGregor / Tommy Brock (voice) | 2018-02-07 |
| Movie | David Stratton: A Cinematic Life | Self | 2017-03-09 |
| Series | House of Bond | Roland “Tiny” Rowland | 2017-04-24 |
| Movie | Thor: Ragnarok | Actor Odin | 2017-10-02 |
| Movie | Tommy's Honour | Alexander Boothby | 2017-07-07 |
| Movie | Hunt for the Wilderpeople | Hec | 2016-03-31 |
| Series | New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands | Narrator (voice) | 2016-07-19 |
| Movie | New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands | Narrator (voice) | 2016-07-19 |
| Series | Tutankhamun | Lord Carnarvon | 2016-10-16 |
| Movie | Why Anzac with Sam Neill | Self | 2015-04-21 |
| Series | House of Hancock | Lang Hancock | 2015-02-08 |
| Series | The Dovekeepers | 2015-03-31 | |
| Movie | Backtrack | Duncan Stewart | 2015-07-25 |
| Movie | MindGamers | Kreutz | 2015-10-04 |
| Series | And Then There Were None | General John MacArthur | 2015-12-26 |
| Movie | The Daughter | Walter | 2015-10-09 |
| Movie | A Long Way Down | Chris Crichton | 2014-03-20 |
| Movie | United Passions | Joao Havelange | 2014-06-19 |
| Series | Old School | Ted McCabe | 2014-05-23 |
| Series | Harry | DSS Jim Stockton | 2013-05-08 |
| Series | Peaky Blinders | C.I. Chester Campbell | 2013-09-12 |
| Movie | The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box | Otto Luger | 2013-12-05 |
| Movie | Escape Plan | Dr. Kyrie | 2013-10-09 |
| Movie | River Deep, Mountain High: James Nesbitt in New Zealand | Self | 2013-12-25 |
| Series | Alcatraz | Emerson Hauser | 2012-01-16 |
| Movie | The Vow | Bill Thornton | 2012-02-05 |
| Movie | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 |
| Movie | Return to Jurassic Park | Self | 2011-02-05 |
| Movie | Ice | Anthony Kavanagh | 2011-01-02 |
| Movie | The Dragon Pearl | Chris Chase | 2011-03-11 |
| Movie | The Hunter | Jack Mindy | 2011-10-06 |
| Movie | Daybreakers | Charles Bromley | 2010-01-06 |
| Series | Happy Town | Merritt Grieves | 2010-04-28 |
| Movie | The Making of Daybreakers | Self | 2010-05-11 |
| Movie | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | Allomere (voice) | 2010-07-10 |
| Movie | In Her Skin | Mr. Reid | 2009-03-13 |
| Movie | Under the Mountain | Mr. Jones | 2009-12-10 |
| Movie | Iron Road | Alfred Nichol | 2009-06-24 |
| Series | Crusoe | Jeremiah Blackthorn | 2008-10-17 |
| Movie | Skin | Abraham Laing | 2008-09-07 |
| Movie | Dean Spanley | Dean Spanley | 2008-12-12 |
| Movie | Angel | Théo | 2007-02-17 |
| Series | The Tudors | Cardinal Thomas Wolsey | 2007-04-01 |
| Movie | The Pixar Story | Alan Grant (archive footage) | 2007-08-28 |
| Movie | Working with a Master: John Carpenter | Self | 2006-03-28 |
| Series | Merlin's Apprentice | Merlin | 2006-04-14 |
| Movie | Voyage of the Nautilus | Hubert Wilkins | 2006-02-25 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Event Horizon' | Self | 2006-04-18 |
| Series | Two Twisted | Mick | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | Irresistible | Craig | 2006-04-18 |
| Movie | New Zild - The Story of New Zealand English | Self | 2005-05-25 |
| Movie | Gallipoli | Narrator | 2005-03-18 |
| Series | To the Ends of the Earth | Mr. Prettiman | 2005-07-06 |
| Movie | Yes | Anthony | 2005-08-05 |
| Movie | Little Fish | The Jockey | 2005-07-19 |
| Series | The Triangle | Eric Benerall | 2005-12-05 |
| Series | The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant | Governor Arthur Phillip | 2005-10-30 |
| Series | Jessica | 2004-07-18 | |
| Movie | Stiff | Lionel Merricks | 2004-06-19 |
| Movie | Jessica | Richard Runche | 2004-07-18 |
| Movie | Wimbledon | Dennis Bradbury | 2004-09-13 |
| Movie | Perfect Strangers | Man | 2003-10-09 |
| Movie | Framed | Eddie Meyers | 2002-02-13 |
| Movie | Dirty Deeds | Ray | 2002-07-18 |
| Series | Doctor Zhivago | Victor Komarovsky | 2002-11-24 |
| Movie | Jurassic Park III | Dr. Alan Grant | 2001-07-18 |
| Movie | Submerged | Lt. Cmdr. Charles B. 'Swede' Momsen | 2001-05-20 |
| Movie | SuperCroc | narrator | 2001-10-25 |
| Series | Space | Himself | 2001-07-22 |
| Movie | The Making Of 'Jurassic Park III' | Self | 2001-12-11 |
| Series | Richard & Judy | Unknown | 2001-11-26 |
| Movie | The Zookeeper | Ludovic | 2001-11-22 |
| Movie | Sally Hemings: An American Scandal | Thomas Jefferson | 2000-02-13 |
| Movie | Numero Bruno | Self | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Forgotten Silver | Himself | 2000-02-23 |
| Movie | The Dish | Cliff Buxton - Dish Master | 2000-10-19 |
| Movie | My Mother Frank | Professor Mortlock | 2000-08-16 |
| Movie | The Magic Pudding | Sam Sawnoff (voice) | 2000-12-14 |
| Movie | Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Prime Minister Gibson | 1999-03-17 |
| Movie | Bicentennial Man | Sir | 1999-12-17 |
| Series | Rove | Himself | 1999-09-22 |
| Series | Merlin | Merlin | 1998-04-26 |
| Movie | The Horse Whisperer | Robert MacLean | 1998-02-01 |
| Movie | The Revengers' Comedies | Henry Bell | 1998-06-09 |
| Series | The Games | Unknown | 1998-08-17 |
| Movie | The Rainbow Warrior | Chief Inspector Alan Galbraith | 1997-03-28 |
| Movie | Event Horizon | Weir | 1997-08-15 |
| Movie | Snow White: A Tale of Terror | Lord Friedrich Hoffman | 1997-07-18 |
| Series | In Cold Blood | Agent Alvin Dewey | 1996-11-24 |
| Movie | Children of the Revolution | David 'Dave' Hoyle, aka Agent 'Nine' | 1996-12-26 |
| Movie | Victory | Mr. Jones | 1996-12-13 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Jurassic Park' | Self / Alan Grant | 1995-04-23 |
| Movie | In the Mouth of Madness | John Trent | 1995-02-03 |
| Movie | Restoration | King Charles II | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | Sirens | Norman Lindsay | 1994-03-04 |
| Movie | Country Life | Dr. Max Askey | 1994-10-27 |
| Movie | The Jungle Book | Colonel Geofferey Brydon | 1994-12-23 |
| Movie | Family Pictures | David Eberlin | 1993-03-20 |
| Movie | Jurassic Park | Grant | 1993-06-11 |
| Movie | The Piano | Alisdair Stewart | 1993-05-19 |
| Movie | Memoirs of an Invisible Man | David Jenkins | 1992-02-28 |
| Movie | Hostage | John Rennie | 1992-05-10 |
| Movie | Death in Brunswick | Carl | 1991-04-24 |
| Movie | Fever | Elliot | 1991-05-11 |
| Movie | One Against the Wind | Major James Leggatt, The Guards | 1991-12-01 |
| Movie | Until the End of the World | Eugene Fitzpatrick | 1991-09-12 |
| Movie | Cowboys of Culture | Self | 1990-01-01 |
| Movie | The Hunt for Red October | Captain Borodin | 1990-03-02 |
| Movie | Shadow of China | TV Reporter | 1990-05-12 |
| Movie | The French Revolution | Marquis de Lafayette | 1989-05-10 |
| Movie | Dead Calm | John Ingram | 1989-04-07 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Unknown | 1989-12-17 |
| Movie | Question of Faith | Oscar Ogg | 1988-10-06 |
| Movie | Evil Angels | Michael Chamberlain | 1988-11-03 |
| Series | Amerika | Colonel Andrei Denisov | 1987-02-15 |
| Movie | The Good Wife | Neville Gifford | 1987-05-14 |
| Movie | Strong Medicine | Vince Lord | 1986-01-01 |
| Movie | For Love Alone | James Quick | 1986-05-22 |
| Movie | Robbery Under Arms | Capt. Starlight | 1985-03-28 |
| Movie | Plenty | Lazar | 1985-09-20 |
| Movie | The Country Girls | Mr. Gentleman | 1984-04-01 |
| Movie | The Blood of Others | Bergman | 1984-05-02 |
| Series | Reilly: Ace of Spies | Sidney Reilly | 1983-09-05 |
| Movie | Ivanhoe | Brian de Bois-Guilbert | 1982-02-23 |
| Movie | Enigma | Dimitri Vasilikov | 1982-10-15 |
| Movie | Attack Force Z | Sergeant Costello | 1982-06-01 |
| Movie | The Final Conflict | Damien Thorn | 1981-03-20 |
| Movie | From a Far Country | Marian | 1981-09-15 |
| Movie | Possession | Mark | 1981-05-27 |
| Series | Lucinda Brayford | Tony Duff | 1980-06-15 |
| Movie | My Brilliant Career | Harry Beecham | 1979-08-17 |
| Movie | Just Out Of Reach | Mike | 1979-10-01 |
| Movie | The Journalist | Rex | 1979-11-15 |
| Movie | Sleeping Dogs | Smith | 1977-10-06 |
| Series | The Sullivans | 1976-11-15 | |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |