Sam Neill

Sam Neill (2010)

Nigel James Dermot Samuel "Sam" Neill , KNZM , OBE , (born September 14, 1947 in Omagh , Northern Ireland , United Kingdom ) is a New Zealand actor , director , screenwriter and winemaker .

life and work

Born into a family of soldiers in Northern Ireland who moved to New Zealand in 1954, Neill attended regular schools and university, where he graduated in English literature . He started acting at an early age, directing and writing for the Zealand National Film Unit for six years . He became popular with films such as The Hunt for Red October ( Tom Clancy book adaptation, 1990), The Piano (1993), Jurassic Park (1993) and Merlin (1998).

Neill has a son with fellow actress Lisa Harrow , a daughter with his wife Noriko Watanabe, and a stepdaughter. Since 1993 he has been the owner of Two Paddocks Ltd. , a small family company based in Otago, New Zealand that makes wines.

His German dubbing voice comes mainly from Wolfgang Condrus .

Filmography

actor

• 1977: Sleeping Dogs (Sleeping Dogs) - Director: Roger Donaldson
• 1979: My brilliant career (My Brilliant Career) - Director: Gillian Armstrong
• 1980: Barbara's Baby - Omen III (The Final Conflict: Omen 3) - Director: Graham Baker
• 1981: From a distant land (Da un paese lontano) - Director: Krzysztof Zanussi
• 1981: Possession - Director: Andrzej Żuławski
• 1982: Ivanhoe - Director: Douglas Camfield
• 1982: The Green Devils of the Mekong (Attack Force Z) - Director: Tim Burstall
• 1982: Enigma - Director: Jeannot Szwarc
• 1983: The Country Girls - Directed by Desmond Davis
• 1983: Reilly, Ace of Spies (TV series)
• 1984: The Blood of Others (Le Sang des autres) - Director: Brian Moore
• 1985: Kain and Abel (Kane and Abel) - Director: Buzz Kulik
• 1985: Bandit from a Good Home - The Captain Starlight Legend (Robbery Under Arms) - Directed by Donald Crombie, Ken Hannam
• 1985: A Demancipated Woman (Plenty) - Director: Fred Schepisi
• 1985: For Love Alone - Director: Stephen Wallace
• 1986: The Good Wife (The Umbrella Woman) - Director: Ken Cameron
• 1986: Strong Medicine - Deadly Dose (Strong Medicine) - Director: Guy Green
• 1987 America (TV series) directed by Donald Wyre
• 1988: Leap of Faith - Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
• 1988: A Cry in the Dark (A Cry in the Dark) - Director: Fred Schepisi
• 1988: Dead Calm (Dead Calm) - Director: Phillip Noyce
• 1989: The French Revolution - Years of Hope / Years of Anger (La révolution française) - directed by Robert Enrico , Richard T. Heffron
• 1990: The Hunt for Red October (The Hunt for Red October) - Director: John McTiernan
• 1990: Society for Mrs. Di Marco (Death in Brunswick) - Directed by John Ruane
• 1991: One Against The Wind - Director: Larry Elikann
• 1991: Undercover - The Hostage - Directed by Robert Young
• 1991: fever of evil (Fever) - Director: Larry Elikann
• 1991: To the End of the World - Director: Wim Wenders
• 1992: Das Piano (The Piano) - Directed by Jane Campion
• 1992: Attack on the Rainbow Warrior (The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior) - Director: Michael Tuchner
• 1992: Memoirs of an Invisible (Memoirs of an Invisible Man) - Director: John Carpenter
• 1993: Family Pictures - directed by Philip Saville
• 1993: Jurassic Park - Directed by Steven Spielberg
• 1994: One Love in Australia; also: The visit from England (Country Life) - Director: Michael Blakemoore
• 1994: Victory - Directed by Mark Peploe
• 1994: Seduction of the Sirens (Sirens) - Director: John Duigan
• 1994: The Jungle Book (The Jungle Book) - Director: Stephen Sommers
• 1995: The Powers of Madness (John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness) - Director: John Carpenter
• 1995: Forgotten Silver - Director: Peter Jackson
• 1995: Time of Sensuality (Restoration) - Director: Michael Hoffman
• 1996: Cold Blood Part 1 + 2 (In Cold Blood, Part 1 + 2 ) - Director: Jonathan Kaplan
• 1996: Children of the Revolution - Director: Peter Duncan
• 1997: Snow White (Snow White: A Tale of Terror) - Director: Michael Cohn
• 1997: Herring on the Pants (The Revengers' Comedies) - Director: Malcolm Mowbray
• 1997: Event Horizon - The Final Frontier (Event Horizon) - Director: Paul WS Anderson
• 1998: The Horse Whisperer (The Horse Whisperer) - Director: Robert Redford
• 1998: Merlin - Directed by Steve Barron
• 1999: Molokai: The Story of Father Damien - Director: Paul Cox
• 1999: The Bicentennial Man - Director: Chris Columbus
• 2000: The Dish - Directed by Rob Sitch
• 2000: The Magic Pudding (voice)
• 2000: Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (TV movie) - Directed by Charles Haid
• 2001: Jurassic Park III - Director: Joe Johnston
• 2001: Caught in Icy Depths ( Submerged , TV movie) - Director: James Keach
• 2001: The Zookeeper - Director: Ralph Ziman
• 2002: Doctor Zhivago (Doctor Zhivago) - Director: Giacomo Campiotti
• 2002: The Master Criminal (Framed) - Director: Daniel Petrie, Jr.
• 2003: Perfect Strangers - Director: Gaylene Preston
• 2002 Dirty Deeds - Dirty Business (Dirty Deeds) - Director: David Caesar
• 2004: Wimbledon - Game, Set and… Love (Wimbledon) - Director: Richard Loncraine
• 2004: Yes - Directed by Sally Potter
• 2005: Little Fish - Directed by Rowan Woods
• 2005: To the Ends of the Earth (Miniseries, 3 episodes)
• 2006: Irresistible (Irresistible) - Director: Ann Turner
• 2006: Merlin 2 - The Last Wizard (Merlin's Apprentice) - Director: David Wu
• 2006: Bermuda Triangle - Gate to Another Time (The Triangle) - Director: Craig R. Baxley
• 2007: Angel - A Life Like a Dream (Angel) - Director: François Ozon
• 2007: The Tudors ( The Tudors , TV series)
• 2008: Dean Spanley - Director: Toa Fraser
• 2008: Skin - Scream for Justice (Skin) - Director: Anthony Fabian
• 2008–2010: Crusoe (TV series)
• 2009: Daybreakers - Directors: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
• 2009: I Am You - Murderous Longing (In Her Skin)
• 2009: Under the Mountain - Directed by Jonathan King
• 2010: Happy Town (TV series)
• 2010: Legend of the Guardians ( Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole , Voice)
• 2011: The Hunter - Director: Daniel Nettheim
• 2011: Ice - The day the world freezes to death (Ice) - Director: Nick Copus
• 2011: The Dragon Pearl (The Dragon Pearl) - Director: Mario Andreacchio
• 2012: Forever Love (The Vow) - Director: Michael Sucsy
• 2012: Alcatraz (TV series, 13 episodes)
• 2013: Escape Plan - Director: Mikael Håfström
• 2013: The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box - Director: Jonathan Newman
• 2013-2014: Peaky Blinders - Gangs of Birmingham ( Peaky Blinders , TV series)
• 2014: A Long Way Down - Director: Pascal Chaumeil
• 2014: United Passions - Director: Frédéric Auburtin
• 2015: And then there was no more ( And Then There Were None , Miniseries)
• 2015: MindGamers - Director: Andrew Goth
• 2015: Backtrack - The Dead Don't Forget (Backtrack) - Director: Michael Petroni
• 2016: Where the Wild People hunt (Hunt for the Wild People) - Director: Taika Waititi
• 2017: Sweet Country - Director: Warwick Thornton
• 2017: Thor: Decision Day (Thor: Ragnarok) - Director: Taika Waititi
• 2018: The Commuter - Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
• 2018: Peter Hase (Peter Rabbit) - Director: Will Gluck
• 2019: Rick and Morty (TV series, episode 4x02, voice)
• 2019: Ride Like a Girl - Your Biggest Dream (Ride Like a Girl)
• 2019: Blackbird - A Family Story (Blackbird)

Director

• 1995: New Zealand - Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill (52 minutes) together with Judy Rymer for the BFI

Web links

Commons : Sam Neill  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sam Neill in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• twopaddocks.com - Website of Sam Neill's family business "Two Paddocks"

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sam Neill: Message from the Proprietor on Two Paddocks website, accessed August 29, 2010
2. ↑ Entry in the German synchronous index (accessed on September 18, 2010)