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:
- 159
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Guinea Pig Club
- Latest Project:
- Movie Bring Him to Me 2023-11-02
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Guinea Pig Club | Charles Overton | 2025 |
| Movie | Mystery Ride | Duncan Connelly | 2025 |
| Movie | Bring Him to Me | Frank | 2023-11-02 |
| Movie | Assassin Club | Caldwell | 2023-02-24 |
| Movie | Scarygirl | Dr. Maybee (voice) | 2023-10-05 |
| Movie | The Portable Door | Dennis Tanner | 2023-03-23 |
| Movie | Jurassic World Dominion | Alan Grant | 2022-06-01 |
| 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 | Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal | Frankie Scales (voice) | 2021-02-04 |
| Movie | Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway | Tommy Brock (voice) | 2021-03-25 |
| Series | The Real Hunt for Red October | Self | 2021-06-13 |
| Movie | Rams | Colin | 2020-10-15 |
| Movie | Palm Beach | Leo | 2019-08-08 |
| Movie | Blackbird | Tom | 2019-09-06 |
| Movie | The Show Must Go On | Self | 2019-10-08 |
| Movie | Ride Like a Girl | Paddy Payne | 2019-09-26 |
| 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 | David Stratton: A Cinematic Life | Self | 2017-03-09 |
| Movie | Thor: Ragnarok | Actor Odin | 2017-10-02 |
| Movie | Tommy's Honour | Alexander Boothby | 2017-07-07 |
| Series | House of Bond | Roland “Tiny” Rowland | 2017-04-24 |
| Series | Tutankhamun | Lord Carnarvon | 2016-10-16 |
| 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 | 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 |
| Series | And Then There Were None | General John MacArthur | 2015-12-26 |
| Movie | MindGamers | Kreutz | 2015-10-04 |
| Movie | The Daughter | Walter | 2015-10-09 |
| Series | Old School | Ted McCabe | 2014-05-23 |
| Movie | A Long Way Down | Chris Crichton | 2014-03-20 |
| Movie | United Passions | Joao Havelange | 2014-06-19 |
| Series | Harry | DSS Jim Stockton | 2013-05-08 |
| Movie | Escape Plan | Dr. Kyrie | 2013-10-09 |
| 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 | The Vow | Bill Thornton | 2012-02-05 |
| Series | Alcatraz | Emerson Hauser | 2012-01-16 |
| Movie | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) | 2012-02-04 |
| Series | Ice | Anthony Kavanagh | 2011-01-02 |
| Movie | Return to Jurassic Park | Self | 2011-02-05 |
| Movie | The Dragon Pearl | Chris Chase | 2011-03-11 |
| Movie | Ice | Anthony Kavanagh | 2011-01-02 |
| Movie | The Hunter | Jack Mindy | 2011-10-06 |
| Movie | Daybreakers | Charles Bromley | 2010-01-06 |
| Movie | The Making of Daybreakers | Self | 2010-05-11 |
| Series | Happy Town | Merritt Grieves | 2010-04-28 |
| Movie | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | Allomere (voice) | 2010-07-10 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Dean Spanley | Dean Spanley | 2008-12-12 |
| Series | Crusoe | Jeremiah Blackthorn | 2008-10-17 |
| Movie | Skin | Abraham Laing | 2008-09-07 |
| Movie | The Pixar Story | Alan Grant (archive footage) | 2007-08-28 |
| Series | The Tudors | Cardinal Thomas Wolsey | 2007-04-01 |
| Movie | Angel | Théo | 2007-02-17 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Irresistible | Craig | 2006-04-18 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Event Horizon' | Self | 2006-04-18 |
| Series | Merlin's Apprentice | Merlin | 2006-04-14 |
| Movie | Gallipoli | Narrator | 2005-03-18 |
| Movie | New Zild - The Story of New Zealand English | Self | 2005-05-25 |
| Series | The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant | Governor Arthur Phillip | 2005-10-30 |
| Series | The Triangle | Eric Benerall | 2005-12-05 |
| 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 |
| Movie | Stiff | Lionel Merricks | 2004-06-19 |
| Movie | The Making of Sleeping Dogs | Self | 2004-03-24 |
| Movie | Jessica | Richard Runche | 2004-07-18 |
| Series | Jessica | 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 |
| Series | Space | Himself | 2001-07-22 |
| Movie | SuperCroc | narrator | 2001-10-25 |
| Series | Richard & Judy | Unknown | 2001-11-26 |
| Movie | The Making Of 'Jurassic Park III' | Self | 2001-12-11 |
| Movie | The Zookeeper | Ludovic | 2001-11-22 |
| Movie | Numero Bruno | Self | 2000-01-01 |
| Movie | My Mother Frank | Professor Mortlock | 2000-08-16 |
| Movie | The Magic Pudding | Sam Sawnoff (voice) | 2000-12-14 |
| Movie | The Dish | Cliff Buxton - Dish Master | 2000-10-19 |
| Movie | Sally Hemings: An American Scandal | Thomas Jefferson | 2000-02-13 |
| Movie | Molokai: The Story of Father Damien | Prime Minister Gibson | 1999-03-17 |
| Series | Rove | Himself | 1999-09-22 |
| Movie | Bicentennial Man | Sir | 1999-12-17 |
| Series | The Games | Unknown | 1998-08-17 |
| Movie | The Horse Whisperer | Robert MacLean | 1998-02-01 |
| Movie | The Revengers' Comedies | Henry Bell | 1998-06-09 |
| Series | Merlin | Merlin | 1998-04-26 |
| Movie | The Rainbow Warrior | Chief Inspector Alan Galbraith | 1997-03-28 |
| Movie | Forgotten Silver | Himself | 1997-10-03 |
| Movie | Event Horizon | Weir | 1997-08-15 |
| Movie | Snow White: A Tale of Terror | Lord Friedrich Hoffman | 1997-07-18 |
| Movie | Victory | Mr. Jones | 1996-12-13 |
| 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 | Restoration | King Charles II | 1995-12-29 |
| Movie | In the Mouth of Madness | John Trent | 1995-02-03 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Jurassic Park' | Self / Alan Grant | 1995-04-23 |
| Movie | The Jungle Book | Colonel Geofferey Brydon | 1994-12-23 |
| Movie | Country Life | Dr. Max Askey | 1994-10-27 |
| Movie | Sirens | Norman Lindsay | 1994-03-04 |
| Movie | Family Pictures | David Eberlin | 1993-03-20 |
| Movie | Jurassic Park | Grant | 1993-06-11 |
| Movie | The Piano | Alisdair Stewart | 1993-05-18 |
| 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 | The Hunt for Red October | Captain Borodin | 1990-03-02 |
| Movie | Shadow of China | TV Reporter | 1990-05-12 |
| Movie | Cowboys of Culture | Self | 1990-01-01 |
| 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 | Evil Angels | Michael Chamberlain | 1988-11-03 |
| Movie | Question of Faith | Oscar Ogg | 1988-10-06 |
| Series | Amerika | Colonel Andrei Denisov | 1987-02-15 |
| Movie | The Good Wife | Neville Gifford | 1987-05-14 |
| Movie | For Love Alone | James Quick | 1986-05-22 |
| Movie | Strong Medicine | Vince Lord | 1986-01-01 |
| Movie | Plenty | Lazar | 1985-09-20 |
| Series | Kane & Abel | William Lowell Kane | 1985-11-17 |
| Movie | Robbery Under Arms | Capt. Starlight | 1985-03-28 |
| 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 | 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 | Possession | Mark | 1981-05-27 |
| Movie | From a Far Country | Marian | 1981-09-15 |
| 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 |