Sam Neill, star of Jurassic Park films, Peaky Blinders and The Piano, dies aged 78. 🙁

[Dave Bowman]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/13/sam-neill-death-actor-dies-aged-78?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Just found out and I'm pretty sad. Great actor and human being, afaik. A big loss, unlike turtle face. 😕

[MustLoveBeagles]

1. RIP

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[BootinUp]

2. I knew he was having some health issues.

Skilled actor. RIP Sam.

[Towlie]

3. And he played Vasili Borodin in The Hunt for Red October.

In The Hunt for Red October (1990) his character's last words are "I would like to have seen Montana." Then, 3 years later in Jurassic Park (1993) he enters the story as Grant, digging up dinosaur fossils in Montana.

[Dave Bowman]

5. Wow, first time I hear about this. Pretty cool. 🙂

[Coventina]

4. One of my favorite movies: Hunt for the Wilderpeople

[CrimsonBight]

6. For the film Event Horizon, his character wore an Australian flag patch on his uniform.

Neill had the costume designers replace the Union Jack with the Aboriginal flag. Seems like one of the good ones.

[Dave Bowman]

8. Australia should drop the Union Jack bit, it's not a colony anymore.

ETA: Event Horizon is an awesome horror/sci-fi movie. 🙃

[Dave Bowman]

7. The first movie I remember him being in is Dead Calm in 1989.

That's also where I discovered a cute redhead named Nicole Kidman. Pretty good movie. Another lesser known movie he starred in was a trippy horror flick with a Stephen King flavor called In the Mouth of Madness (1994). Really worth a watch if it's your thing. 😀