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

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17. Neill had a certain intensity to him.

It was probably the eyebrows.

I first noted him/them in the mini-series, Ivanhoe, which also starred Anthony Andrews* and Olivia Hussey. Neill played a not so noble knight, the first of many roles where he embodied the spirit of I-belong-to-the-truth-faith-therefore-I-will-do-despicable-things-in-support-of-it.

He did this in the movie, Molokai, and The Tudors mini-series.

I was saddened and a little shocked by this news because I liked him and his work, and because his death was not the one that I was expecting to round out this particular Rule-of-Threes set.




* Not to be confused with the American actor, Anthony Anderson.