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    Sam Neill, Schauspieler aus „Jurassic Park“ und „Peaky Blinders“, ist im Alter von 78 Jahren gestorben

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    1. Jon_J_ on

      „While Sam Neill is known as one of New-Zealand’s best known actors, his roots lie in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

      Neill’s New-Zealander father was stationed in Omagh as an officer with the Irish Guards when Neill was born in 1947.

      „I was born in Omagh, we lived in Armagh and my favourite place here was Tyrella beach, I sort of think that’s where I grew up,“ Neill told the BBC in 2012.

      He lived in Northern Ireland until he was seven, when he and his family moved to New Zealand – however Neill returned to his roots when cast as a Belfast police chief in BBC’s Peaky Blinders in 2013.

      At the time, Neill said his Northern Ireland accent had been „well beaten out“ of him by classmates in New-Zealand, and that he had to get help from friends and fellow actors James Nesbitt and Liam Neeson to re-learn it for the role.

      https://www.bbc.com/news/live/crl1gk55rzet?post=asset%3A965af510-d8fc-47b0-bd72-707e911e0827#post

    4. AnarchistPineMarten on

      Part of the childhood died today 🙁 Dr Grant was my hero when I was a young lad

    5. pixelburp on

      So sad, F Cancer; loved his career cos he was an actor who had a great range, always busy and always working lots of great roles. 

      Which included a commendable ability to ham it up without being self conscious about it. Sounds like a backhanded compliment but stuff like Possession or In the Mouth of Madness were where Neill went bug nuts, but kept a lid on it too.

    6. Syphe on

      The title does him a disservice, go and check out his filmography, he is a legendary actor, „Hunt for the Wilderpeople“ is one of my favorites, well worth a watch

    9. Hot-Worker6072 on

      „Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see.“
      Great actor, RIP Sam

    10. decoran_ on

      RIP Sam Neill. I saw him in Jurassic Park and then the next movie I saw him in was Event Horizon, which I put on late one night as a kid, without knowing it’s a horror movie. I was slightly traumatised. I was previously aware of his connection to Ireland but I had completely forgotten

    12. Chubba1984 on

      That scene in Jurrasic Park where he removes the glasses to see the bracchisaurus captured such awe and emotion in one simple gesture. I was fascinated with dinosaurs as a kid and I keep coming back to that scene as an adult – such a talent as an actor to be able to portray that sense of wonder in an everyday action.

    13. Affectionate-Ant5574 on

      He was so good in peaky Blinders. His character was so dislikable.

      RIP

    14. wet_jonah on

      Fair play to him, didn’t know he was one of our own from Omagh. The man was a class act on screen, gone too soon.

    17. Elaneyse on

      Thought he was phenomenal in The Tudors. Don’t see that one mentioned too often.

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