Sam Neill has died

JodieBenitez

I'm getting old, all my childhood heroes die.

Xenoamorphous

So sad. Jurassic Park had a tremendous impact on me as a dino obsessed teenager ( was 13 when it came out). RIP.

benburton

Today New Zealand has lost a national treasure. Haere atu rā ki te okiokinga.

vinkelhake

Give me a ping Vasily. One ping only please. Sad.

pico303

One of my favorite actors of all time. If you haven’t seen it, watch The Dish.

Neil44

He had a lovely gentle demeanor about him. He was good recently in the Untamed series.

GenericDev

To this day, Event Horizon is one of the scariest premises to a horror movie I have ever watched. And it's thanks to Sam Neill's performance that it lives rent free in my head. Love this guy. Gonna miss him :(

ares623

RIP. Where he's going, he won't need eyes. Wait, perhaps that was an inappropriate quote to use.

chvid

Event horizon.

nephihaha

Hunt for the Wilder People was fun, as was Reilly, Ace of Spies.

TrackerFF

I’ve watched “In The Mouth of Madness” so many times. It is in my top 3 most re-watched horror movies list. Perfect Lovecraftian horror, and Sam Neill was perfect in it. Do you read Sutter Cane?

mulhoon

I watched Possession (1981) a few weeks back. One of the weirdest films I’ve ever seen. His acting was so different from his later stuff.

ChrisMarshallNY

Ah, that sucks. I’ve always enjoyed him. One of the inevitable features of getting older. All my cultural icons keep checking out.

te_chris

As a kiwi he was the best of us. Creative, talented, willing to roll up his sleeves, maker of exceptional wine. Haere ra

bluerooibos

An absolute legend. I thought he'd be around for longer. Thanks for making Jurassic Park what it is, Sam.

geocrasher

"I would have liked to have seen Montana..." You are forever in our hearts, Vasili.

wewewedxfgdf

I saw him interviewed once and they asked about his cancer and he said that he did not find it very interesting. He said something to the effect of he finds living interesting and there's far more interesting things to talk about than his cancer. Paraphrased I don't recall exactly.

1313ed01

RIP. Here in Sweden the headlines mention primarily his role in Ivanhoe, a movie that has aired on Swedish TV almost every New Years for over 40 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanhoe_(1982_film) He posted this video message to the Swedish people for New Years 2023: https://www.svt.se/kultur/ivanhoe-skadespelarens-nyarshalsni... Great movie.

mindcrash

Jurassic Park was the first movie I saw as a twelve year old boy at the cinema, and it not only made me a huge fan of the series but as a boy I was really into dinosaurs and it was really something to see them being "real" on a big screen for the first time. "I have a theory that there are two kinds of boys. There are those that want to be astronomers, and those that want to be astronauts[...]That's the difference between imagining and seeing" Thank you for everything, doctor Grant.

lapcat

I'll never forget Neill as Damien in Omen III. I'd very much like to forget Neill as Damien in Omen III. Chilling.