Sam Neill - biography

“When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting.”

“I’m not big on Champagne, but I’d take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat comes to the rescue.”

“I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school.  I heard about it on the old valve radio.  At the time of Armstrong’s landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.”

“I’ve worked all my life to shed myself of any character.”

“I go by the role pretty much.  And I think the only genre I haven’t gotten to do but I’d love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that.  Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I’d love to do.”

“As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.”

“I enjoy some physical stuff.  But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it’s raining, it’s terribly cold, I’m wet and I’m being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I’d probably take the latter.  It’s warmer and generally more comfortable!”

Sam Neill has appeared in the following films:
Ashes (1975)
Landfall (1975)
Sleeping Dogs (1977)
Just Out of Reach (1979)
My Brilliant Career (1979)
The Journalist (1979)
From a Far Country (1981)
Possession (1981)
The Final Conflict (1981)
Enigma (1983)
Le Sang des autres (1984)
Plenty (1985)
Robbery Under Arms (1985)
For Love Alone (1986)
Peter Kenna’s The Good Wife (1987)
Evil Angels (1988)
La Révolution française (1989)
Dead Calm (1989)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Shadow of China (1990)
Bis ans Ende der Welt (1991)
Death in Brunswick (1991)
The Rainbow Warrior (1992)
Hostage (1992)
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
Jurassic Park (1993)
The Piano (1993)
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Sirens (1994)
The Jungle Book (1994)
Country Life (1994)
Restoration (1995)
Victory (1995)
Children of the Revolution (1996)
Event Horizon (1997)
The Horse Whisperer (1998)
The Revengers’ Comedies (1998)
Bicentennial Man (1999)
Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999)
The Magic Pudding (2000)
My Mother Frank (2000)
The Dish (2000)
Jurassic Park III (2001)
The Zookeeper (2001)
Dirty Deeds (2002)
Wimbledon (2004)
Yes (2004)
Little Fish (2005)
Irresistible (2006)
Angel (2007)
Dean Spanley (2008)
In Her Skin (2009)
Daybreakers (2009)
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (2010)
The Dragon Pearl (2011)
The Hunter (2011)
The Vow (2012)