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, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 164
- First Appeared:
- In the series UNTAMED
- Latest Project:
- Series Apples Never Fall 2024-03-14
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Guinea Pig Club | Charles Overton | 2025 |
| Movie | Mystery Ride | Duncan Connelly | 2025 |
| Series | UNTAMED | Paul Souter | 2025 |
| Series | Apples Never Fall | Stan Delaney | 2024-03-14 |
| Movie | The Portable Door | Dennis Tanner | 2023-03-23 |
| Movie | Bring Him to Me | Frank | 2023-11-02 |
| Movie | Scarygirl | Dr. Maybee (voice) | 2023-10-05 |
| Movie | Assassin Club | Caldwell | 2023-02-24 |
| Movie | Thor: Love and Thunder | Actor Odin | 2022-07-06 |
| Series | The Twelve | Brett Colby QC | 2022-06-21 |
| Movie | Voice Activated | Audiobook Narrator (voice) | 2022-06-15 |
| Movie | Jurassic World Dominion | Alan Grant | 2022-06-01 |
| Movie | Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal | Frankie Scales (voice) | 2021-02-04 |
| Series | The Real Hunt for Red October | Self | 2021-06-13 |
| Movie | Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway | Tommy Brock (voice) | 2021-03-25 |
| Movie | Rams | Colin | 2020-10-15 |
| Movie | The Show Must Go On | Self | 2019-10-08 |
| Movie | Palm Beach | Leo | 2019-08-08 |
| Movie | Ride Like a Girl | Paddy Payne | 2019-09-26 |
| Movie | Blackbird | Tom | 2019-09-06 |
| Movie | Peter Rabbit | Mr. McGregor / Tommy Brock (voice) | 2018-02-07 |
| Movie | Sweet Country | Fred Smith | 2018-01-25 |
| Movie | The Commuter | Captain Hawthorne | 2018-01-11 |
| Movie | Thor: Ragnarok | Actor Odin | 2017-10-02 |
| Movie | David Stratton: A Cinematic Life | Self | 2017-03-09 |
| Series | House of Bond | Roland “Tiny” Rowland | 2017-04-24 |
| Movie | Tommy's Honour | Alexander Boothby | 2017-07-07 |
| Series | Tutankhamun | Lord Carnarvon | 2016-10-16 |
| Movie | New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands | Narrator (voice) | 2016-07-19 |
| Series | New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands | Narrator (voice) | 2016-07-19 |
| Movie | Hunt for the Wilderpeople | Hec | 2016-03-31 |
| Series | The Dovekeepers | 2015-03-31 | |
| Series | House of Hancock | Lang Hancock | 2015-02-08 |
| Movie | Why Anzac with Sam Neill | Self | 2015-04-21 |
| Movie | Backtrack | Duncan Stewart | 2015-07-25 |
| Movie | The Daughter | Walter | 2015-10-09 |
| Series | And Then There Were None | General John MacArthur | 2015-12-26 |
| Movie | MindGamers | Kreutz | 2015-10-04 |
| Movie | A Long Way Down | Chris Crichton | 2014-03-20 |
| Series | Old School | Ted McCabe | 2014-05-23 |
| Movie | United Passions | Joao Havelange | 2014-06-19 |
| Series | Harry | DSS Jim Stockton | 2013-05-08 |
| Series | Peaky Blinders | C.I. Chester Campbell | 2013-09-12 |
| Movie | Escape Plan | Dr. Kyrie | 2013-10-09 |
| Movie | The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box | Otto Luger | 2013-12-05 |
| 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 |
| Series | Ice | Anthony Kavanagh | 2011-01-02 |
| 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 | Return to Jurassic Park | Self | 2011-02-05 |
| Series | Happy Town | Merritt Grieves | 2010-04-28 |
| Movie | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | Allomere (voice) | 2010-07-10 |
| Movie | The Making of Daybreakers | Self | 2010-05-11 |
| Movie | Daybreakers | Charles Bromley | 2010-01-06 |
| Movie | Under the Mountain | Mr. Jones | 2009-12-10 |
| Movie | In Her Skin | Mr. Reid | 2009-03-13 |
| 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 | Voyage of the Nautilus | Hubert Wilkins | 2006-02-25 |
| Series | Two Twisted | Mick | 2006-08-14 |
| Movie | Working with a Master: John Carpenter | Self | 2006-03-28 |
| Series | Merlin's Apprentice | Merlin | 2006-04-14 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Event Horizon' | Self | 2006-04-18 |
| 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 |
| Series | The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant | Governor Arthur Phillip | 2005-10-30 |
| Series | The Triangle | Eric Benerall | 2005-12-05 |
| Movie | Little Fish | The Jockey | 2005-07-19 |
| Movie | The Making of Sleeping Dogs | Self | 2004-03-24 |
| Series | Jessica | 2004-07-18 | |
| Movie | Wimbledon | Dennis Bradbury | 2004-09-13 |
| Movie | Jessica | Richard Runche | 2004-07-18 |
| Movie | Stiff | Lionel Merricks | 2004-06-19 |
| Movie | Perfect Strangers | Man | 2003-10-09 |
| Series | Doctor Zhivago | Victor Komarovsky | 2002-11-24 |
| Movie | Framed | Eddie Meyers | 2002-02-13 |
| Movie | Dirty Deeds | Ray | 2002-07-18 |
| Movie | The Making Of 'Jurassic Park III' | Self | 2001-12-11 |
| Movie | Submerged | Lt. Cmdr. Charles B. 'Swede' Momsen | 2001-05-20 |
| Movie | Jurassic Park III | Dr. Alan Grant | 2001-07-18 |
| Series | Richard & Judy | Unknown | 2001-11-26 |
| Movie | The Zookeeper | Ludovic | 2001-11-22 |
| Movie | SuperCroc | narrator | 2001-10-25 |
| Series | Space | Himself | 2001-07-22 |
| Movie | Numero Bruno | Self | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | Sally Hemings: An American Scandal | Thomas Jefferson | 2000-02-13 |
| Movie | The Magic Pudding | Sam Sawnoff (voice) | 2000-12-14 |
| Movie | My Mother Frank | Professor Mortlock | 2000-08-16 |
| Movie | The Dish | Cliff Buxton - Dish Master | 2000-10-19 |
| Movie | Bicentennial Man | Sir | 1999-12-17 |
| Movie | Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Prime Minister Gibson | 1999-03-17 |
| Series | Rove | Himself | 1999-09-22 |
| Movie | The Revengers' Comedies | Henry Bell | 1998-06-09 |
| Series | The Games | Unknown | 1998-08-17 |
| Series | Merlin | Merlin | 1998-04-26 |
| Movie | The Horse Whisperer | Robert MacLean | 1998-02-01 |
| Movie | Event Horizon | Weir | 1997-08-15 |
| Movie | The Rainbow Warrior | Chief Inspector Alan Galbraith | 1997-03-28 |
| Movie | Forgotten Silver | Himself | 1997-10-03 |
| Movie | Snow White: A Tale of Terror | Lord Friedrich Hoffman | 1997-07-18 |
| Movie | Children of the Revolution | David 'Dave' Hoyle, aka Agent 'Nine' | 1996-12-26 |
| Series | In Cold Blood | Agent Alvin Dewey | 1996-11-24 |
| Movie | Victory | Mr. Jones | 1996-12-13 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Jurassic Park' | Self / Alan Grant | 1995-04-23 |
| Movie | Restoration | King Charles II | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | In the Mouth of Madness | John Trent | 1995-02-03 |
| 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 | Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects | Self | 1994-05-22 |
| Movie | Split Enz: Spellbound | Narrator | 1993-07-08 |
| Movie | Family Pictures | David Eberlin | 1993-03-20 |
| Movie | Jurassic Park | Grant | 1993-06-11 |
| Movie | The Piano | Alisdair Stewart | 1993-05-18 |
| Movie | Hostage | John Rennie | 1992-05-10 |
| Movie | Memoirs of an Invisible Man | David Jenkins | 1992-02-28 |
| Movie | One Against the Wind | Major James Leggatt, The Guards | 1991-12-01 |
| Movie | Death in Brunswick | Carl | 1991-04-24 |
| Movie | Until the End of the World | Eugene Fitzpatrick | 1991-09-12 |
| Movie | Fever | Elliot | 1991-05-11 |
| 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: Years of hope | Marquis de Lafayette | 1989-05-10 |
| Series | The Simpsons | Unknown | 1989-12-17 |
| Movie | The french revolution: Years of rage | Marquis de Lafayette | 1989-05-10 |
| Movie | Dead Calm | John Ingram | 1989-04-07 |
| Movie | Question of Faith | Oscar Ogg | 1988-10-06 |
| Movie | Evil Angels | Michael Chamberlain | 1988-11-03 |
| Movie | The Good Wife | Neville Gifford | 1987-05-14 |
| Series | Amerika | Colonel Andrei Denisov | 1987-02-15 |
| Movie | For Love Alone | James Quick | 1986-05-22 |
| Movie | Strong Medicine | Vince Lord | 1986-01-01 |
| Movie | Robbery Under Arms | Capt. Starlight | 1985-03-28 |
| Movie | Plenty | Lazar | 1985-09-20 |
| Series | Kane & Abel | William Lowell Kane | 1985-11-17 |
| Movie | The Country Girls | Mr. Gentleman | 1984-04-01 |
| Movie | The Blood of Others | Bergman | 1984-08-25 |
| Series | Reilly: Ace of Spies | Sidney Reilly | 1983-09-05 |
| Movie | Enigma | Dimitri Vasilikov | 1982-10-15 |
| Movie | Attack Force Z | Sergeant Costello | 1982-06-01 |
| Movie | Ivanhoe | Brian de Bois-Guilbert | 1982-02-23 |
| 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 | Just Out Of Reach | Mike | 1979-10-01 |
| Movie | The Journalist | Rex | 1979-11-15 |
| Movie | My Brilliant Career | Harry Beecham | 1979-08-17 |
| Movie | Sleeping Dogs | Smith | 1977-10-06 |
| Series | The Sullivans | 1976-11-15 | |
| Movie | Landfall | Eric | 1975-01-01 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |