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Acting

Sam Neill

Career: Active from 1971 to 2027, busiest in 2004 and 2009 with 6 main titles each.

Leading roles: 114
top three billing

Average score: 61/100

Highest rated: New Zealand: Earth's Mythical Islands
86/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 121 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Sam Neill Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
4.1, average 5.4
Pop Culture
1.1, average 2.2
Showbiz
0.4, average 1.2
Situational Comedy
2.0, average 2.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 15
Social Commentary 14
Psychological Thriller 13
Political Intrigue 8
Moral Ambiguity 8
Historical Drama 8
Bleak Atmosphere 5
Character Study 5
Literary Adaptation 5
Biographical Drama 5
Political Thriller 4
Australian Cinema 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

173

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

1 title

as Duncan Connelly

2020s

18 titles · average score 58

The Fox

75

as The Magpie (voice)

UNTAMED

70

TV show · as Paul Souter

Apples Never Fall

52

TV show · as Stan Delaney

Scarygirl

44

as Dr. Maybee (voice)

The Portable Door

71

as Dennis Tanner

Assassin Club

27

as Caldwell

Bring Him to Me

54

as Frank

The Twelve

70

TV show · as Brett Colby

Jurassic World Dominion

44

as Alan Grant

Thor: Love and Thunder

57

as Actor Odin

Daisy Quokka: World's Scariest Animal

48

as Frankie Scales (voice)

Rams

73

as Colin

2010s

40 titles · average score 61

Ride Like a Girl

60

as Paddy Payne

The Commuter

56

as Captain Hawthorne

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

85

as Hec

MindGamers

36

as Kreutz

Backtrack

44

as Duncan Stewart

Old School

76

TV show · as Ted McCabe

United Passions

11

as Joao Havelange

The Vow

51

as Bill Thornton

Alcatraz

60

TV show · as Emerson Hauser

The Hunter

67

as Jack Mindy

Daybreakers

61

as Charles Bromley

Happy Town

59

TV show · as Merritt Grieves

2000s

41 titles · average score 63

Skin

55

as Abraham Laing

In Her Skin

61

as Mr. Reid

Crusoe

59

TV show · as Jeremiah Blackthorn

Dean Spanley

81

as Dean Spanley

The Tudors

73

TV show · as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey

Angel

48

as Théo

Merlin's Apprentice

51

TV show · as Merlin

Irresistible

35

as Craig

Yes

58

as Anthony

Wimbledon

61

as Dennis Bradbury

The Dish

78

as Cliff Buxton - Dish Master

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

75

TV show · as Thomas Jefferson

1990s

30 titles · average score 64

Bicentennial Man

54

as Sir

The Horse Whisperer

68

as Robert MacLean

Merlin

70

TV show · as Merlin

Event Horizon

51

as Weir

Snow White: A Tale of Terror

58

as Lord Friedrich Hoffman

In the Mouth of Madness

65

as John Trent

Sirens

62

as Norman Lindsay

Jurassic Park

82

as Grant

The Piano

83

as Alisdair Stewart

Memoirs of an Invisible Man

46

as David Jenkins

Until the End of the World

77

as Eugene Fitzpatrick

The Hunt for Red October

75

as Capt. 2nd Vasily Borodin

1980s

23 titles · average score 62

Dead Calm

71

as John Ingram

The Simpsons

83

TV show · as Molloy (voice)

Evil Angels

82

as Michael Chamberlain

The Good Wife

48

as Neville Gifford

Kane & Abel

77

TV show · as William Lowell Kane

The Blood of Others

47

as Bergman

Reilly: Ace of Spies

76

TV show · as Sidney Reilly

Ivanhoe

68

as Brian de Bois-Guilbert

Attack Force Z

48

as Sergeant Costello

Enigma

57

as Dimitri Vasilikov

Possession

75

as Mark

The Final Conflict

41

as Damien Thorn

1970s

19 titles · average score 62

My Brilliant Career

65

as Harry Beecham

Just Out Of Reach

as Mike

The Journalist

as Rex

On the Road with Red Mole

Writer, Director

Sleeping Dogs

61

as Smith

Architect Athfield

as Narrator

Flare - A Ski Trip

Director

The Sullivans

61

TV show · as Ben Dawson

Landfall

as Eric

Four Shorts on Architecture

as Narrator (voice)

Phone

Writer, Director

The City of No

as The neighbour

1950s

1 title · average score 84

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as British Flier