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Sam Neill
Few stars could boast a track record of turning in solid performances ranging from understated intensity to completely unhinged with such consistency as actor Sam Neill. Beginning with his work as a member of the New Zealand National Film Unit, Neill began to make a name for himself in his homeland with small films like "Sleeping Dogs" (1977). After moving to Australia for various film and television work, he received international exposure with the third entry in the popular "Omen" horror series as Damian Thorn in "The Final Conflict" (1981). From there it was on to a nearly uninterrupted run of impressive performances alongside some of film's biggest stars in projects such as the underrated "Dead Calm" (1989), co-starring Nicole Kidman, and the Academy Award-winning "The Piano" (1993), featuring Harvey Keitel and Holly Hunter. Neill then headlined one of the biggest blockbuster films of all time as the levelheaded Dr. Alan Grant in Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" (1993). Almost effortlessly, he would continue to move from genres ranging from horror (1995's "In the Mouth of Madness"), to comedy (2000's "The Dish"), to historical drama (the 2007 season of Showtime's "The Tudors"), and back again with apparent ease. Over the years, the once supposedly camera shy Neill had steadily become one of the most welcome international presences on screen - be it film or television - of his generation.
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Sam Neill
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Scarygirl | Dr Maybee (Voice) | - | 2023 |
| 64% |
|
Bring Him to Me | Frank (Character) | $1.5K | 2023 |
| 13% |
|
Assassin Club | Caldwell (Character) | - | 2023 |
| 80% |
|
The Portable Door | Dennis Tanner (Character) | - | 2023 |
| 29% |
|
Jurassic World Dominion | Alan Grant (Character) | $376.0M | 2022 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Voice Activated | Audiobook Narrator (Voice) | - | 2022 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal | Frankie Scales (Voice) | - | 2021 |
| 91% |
|
Rams | Colin (Character) | - | 2020 |
| 64% |
|
Blackbird | Paul (Character) | - | 2019 |
| 48% |
|
Palm Beach | Leo (Character) | - | 2019 |
| 68% |
|
Ride Like a Girl | Paddy Payne (Character) | - | 2019 |
| 64% |
|
Peter Rabbit |
Old Mr. McGregor/ |
$115.2M | 2018 |
| 55% |
|
The Commuter | Captain Hawthorne (Character) | $36.3M | 2018 |
| 96% |
|
Sweet Country | Fred Smith (Character) | $85.6K | 2017 |
| 93% |
|
Thor: Ragnarok | Actor Odin (Character) | $315.0M | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mummy of Tutankhamun | Unknown (Character) | - | 2017 |
| 82% |
|
David Stratton: A Cinematic Life | Unknown (Character) | - | 2017 |
| 68% |
|
Tommy's Honour | Alexander Boothby (Character) | $562.0K | 2016 |
| 97% |
|
Hunt for the Wilderpeople | Hec (Character) | $5.2M | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | DxM | Kreutz (Character) | - | 2015 |
| No Score Yet |
|
MindGamers | Kreutz (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 77% |
|
The Daughter | Walter (Character) | $26.4K | 2015 |
| 28% |
|
Backtrack | Duncan Stewart (Character) | - | 2015 |
| 0% |
|
United Passions | João Havelange (Character) | - | 2014 |
| 22% |
|
A Long Way Down | Chris Crichton (Character) | $13.1K | 2014 |
| 20% |
|
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box | Otto Luger (Character) | - | 2013 |
| 50% |
|
Escape Plan | Dr. Kyrie (Character) | $25.1M | 2013 |
| 31% |
|
The Vow | Bill Thornton (Character) | $125.0M | 2012 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Dragon Pearl | Chris Chase (Character) | - | 2011 |
| 72% |
|
The Hunter | Jack Mindy (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ice | Unknown (Character) | - | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Telepathy | Unknown (Character) | - | 2011 |
| 52% |
|
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | Allomere (Voice) | $55.7M | 2010 |
| No Score Yet |
|
In Her Skin | David Reid (Character) | - | 2009 |
| No Score Yet |
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Under the Mountain | Mr. Jones (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 69% |
|
Daybreakers | Charles Bromley (Character) | $30.0M | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Iron Road | Alfred Nichol (Character) | - | 2009 |
| 88% |
|
Dean Spanley | Dean Spanley (Character) | - | 2008 |
| 86% |
|
Skin | Abraham Laing (Character) | - | 2008 |
| 50% |
|
Angel | Théo (Character) | - | 2007 |
| 22% |
|
Irresistible | Craig (Character) | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Merlin's Apprentice | Merlin (Character) | - | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gallipoli | Narrator | - | 2005 |
| 89% |
|
Little Fish | The Jockey (Character) | - | 2005 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant | Unknown (Character) | - | 2005 |
| 52% |
|
Yes | Anthony (Character) | $396.0K | 2004 |
| 60% |
|
Wimbledon | Dennis Bradbury (Character) | $16.8M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Brush-Off | Director | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Stiff | Lionel Merricks (Character) | - | 2004 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Framed | Eddie Meyers (Character) | - | 2003 |
| 29% |
|
Perfect Strangers | The Man (Character) | - | 2003 |
| 64% |
|
Negocios Sucios | Unknown (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dirty Deeds | Ray (Character) | - | 2002 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Zookeeper | Ludovic (Character) | - | 2001 |
| 49% |
|
Jurassic Park III | Dr. Alan Grant (Character) | $181.2M | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Submerged | Lt. Cmdr. Charles B. "Swede" Momsen (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet |
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Hyperspace | Unknown (Character) | - | 2001 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Magic Pudding | Sam Sawnoff (Voice) | - | 2000 |
| 96% |
|
The Dish | Cliff Buxton (Character) | $2.3M | 2000 |
| No Score Yet |
|
My Mother Frank | Professor Mortlock (Character) | - | 2000 |
| 63% |
|
Molokai | Walter Murray Gibson (Character) | - | 1999 |
| 37% |
|
Bicentennial Man | Sir Richard Martin (Character) | $58.2M | 1999 |
| No Score Yet |
|
The Revengers' Comedies | Henry Bell (Character) | - | 1998 |
| 73% |
|
The Horse Whisperer | Robert MacLean (Character) | $75.4M | 1998 |
| 35% |
|
Event Horizon | Dr. William Weir (Character) | $26.7M | 1997 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Victory | Mr. Jones (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 55% |
|
Snow White: A Tale of Terror | Lord Friedrich Hoffman (Character) | - | 1997 |
| 79% |
|
Children of the Revolution | Nine (Character) | $830.6K | 1996 |
| No Score Yet |
|
In Cold Blood | Unknown (Character) | - | 1996 |
| 59% |
|
In the Mouth of Madness | John Trent (Character) | $8.9M | 1995 |
| 71% |
|
Restoration | King Charles II (Character) | $3.5M | 1995 |
| 100% |
|
Forgotten Silver | Self | - | 1995 |
| 80% |
|
Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book | Colonel Geofferey Brydon (Character) | $43.2M | 1994 |
| 83% |
|
Country Life | Dr. Max Askey (Character) | $87.5K | 1994 |
| 74% |
|
Sirens | Norman Lindsay (Character) | $5.8M | 1994 |
| 90% |
|
The Piano | Alisdair Stewart (Character) | $39.3M | 1993 |
| 91% |
|
Jurassic Park | Dr. Alan Grant (Character) | $415.3M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Family Pictures | Unknown (Character) | - | 1993 |
| 28% |
|
Memoirs of an Invisible Man | David Jenkins (Character) | $13.4M | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior | Alan Galbraith (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet |
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Hostage | John Rennie (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fever | Elliott (Character) | - | 1991 |
| 89% |
|
Until the End of the World | Eugene Fitzpatrick (Character) | $662.2K | 1991 |
| No Score Yet |
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One Against the Wind | Major James Leggatt (Character) | - | 1991 |
| No Score Yet |
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Shadow of China | TV reporter (Character) | $70.2K | 1991 |
| 88% |
|
The Hunt for Red October | Captain Vasily Borodin (Character) | $119.1M | 1990 |
| 67% |
|
Death in Brunswick | Carl "Cookie" Fitzgerald (Character) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The French Revolution: The Terrible Years | Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert Motier, marquis De La Fayette (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 84% |
|
Dead Calm | John Ingram (Character) | $7.0M | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The French Revolution | Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert Motier (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet |
|
The French Revolution: The Light Years | Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert Motier, marquis De La Fayette (Character) | - | 1989 |
| 94% |
|
A Cry in the Dark | Michael Chamberlain (Character) | $5.7M | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Leap of Faith | Oscar Ogg (Character) | - | 1988 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Good Wife | Neville Gifford (Character) | $470.1K | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | For Love Alone | James Quick (Character) | - | 1986 |
| No Score Yet |
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Robbery Under Arms | Capt. Starlight (Character) | - | 1985 |
| No Score Yet |
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The Blood of Others | Bergman (Character) | - | 1984 |
| No Score Yet |
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Ivanhoe | Brian de Bois-Guilbert (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet |
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Enigma | Dimitri Vasilikov (Character) | - | 1982 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Attack Force Z | Sergeant D.J. Costello (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 29% |
|
The Final Conflict | Damien Thorn (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 85% |
|
Possession | Mark (Character) | - | 1981 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | From a Far Country: Pope John Paul II | Marian (Character) | - | 1981 |
| 86% |
|
My Brilliant Career | Harry Beecham (Character) | - | 1979 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Sleeping Dogs | Smith (Character) | - | 1977 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50% | 79% | The Twelve |
Brett (Character), Executive Producer |
2022 2024 |
| No Score Yet | 54% | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Guest | 2024 |
| 47% | 42% | Apples Never Fall | Stan Delaney (Character) | 2024 |
| 57% | 50% | Invasion | Sheriff John Bell Tyson (Character) | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lindy Chamberlain: The True Story | Narrator | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2016-2017 2021 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pacific With Sam Neill |
Executive Producer, Host |
2019 |
| 93% | 93% | Peaky Blinders | Inspector Chester Campbell (Character) | 2013-2014 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | House of Bond | Roland Rowland (Character) | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tutankhamun | Lord Carnarvon (Character) | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wild New Zealand | Narrator | 2016 |
| 81% | 91% | And Then There Were None | General John MacArthur (Character) | 2015 |
| 33% | No Score Yet | The Dovekeepers | Flavius Josephus (Character) | 2015 |
| 60% | No Score Yet | Short Poppies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2014 |
| 60% | 42% | Alcatraz | Emerson Hauser (Character) | 2012 |
| 100% | 82% | Rake | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2010 |
| 46% | 71% | Happy Town | Merritt Grieves (Character) | 2010 |
| 49% | No Score Yet | Crusoe | Jeremiah Blackthorn (Character) | 2008-2009 |
| 69% | 84% | The Tudors | Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (Character) | 2007-2008 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Masterpiece Theatre | Unknown (Character) | 2003 2006 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Triangle | Unknown (Character) | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | To the Ends of the Earth | Unknown (Character) | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jessica | Richard Runche (Character) | 2004 |
| 85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Molloy (Guest Voice) | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Robbery Under Arms | Captain Starlight (Character) | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Reilly: Ace of Spies | Sidney Reilly (Character) | 1983 |