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Anish Moonka @anishmoonka - Sam Neill spent five years fighting blood cancer, beat it with an experimental therapy, and said it was time to make another movie. Less than three months later he was dead at 78, for reasons that had nothing to do with the cancer he had just survived.
His family announced the news Monday from Sydney, Australia. The statement said the loss was sudden and unexpected, that Neill remained cancer free, and that he had been surrounded by family. They thanked the staff at St Vincent's Private Hospital and asked for privacy. No cause of death has been released.
Neill was diagnosed with stage three angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma in 2022, a rare, aggressive cancer that attacks the immune system's T-cells. He went through years of chemotherapy that worked, then stopped working. Doctors switched him to CAR T-cell therapy, a treatment that takes out a patient's own immune cells, reprograms them to spot cancer, and puts them back in the body to hunt it down. On April 28, a scan came back clear. "There is no cancer in my body, that's an extraordinary thing," Neill said at the time. He spent his final months pushing for wider access to the same therapy that saved him.
He is best remembered as Dr. Alan Grant, the paleontologist who spent Jurassic Park running from what he studied. Neill played Grant across three films over 29 years, from the original in 1993 to Jurassic World Dominion in 2022. The same year Jurassic Park came out, he starred opposite Holly Hunter in The Piano, which won the Oscar for best original screenplay. His five-decade career also ran through The Hunt for Red October, Dead Calm, and three seasons as Chief Inspector Chester Campbell on Peaky Blinders. New Zealand gave him its Screen Legend Award last year.
Born in Northern Ireland in 1947, he moved to New Zealand with his family at age seven. He is survived by four children and eight grandchildren. His last public statement about his future, made less than three months before he died, was simple: it's time I did another movie.
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