Sam Neill
Director, Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Dean Spanley (2008)
- Dir. Toa Fraser
Feat. Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Peter O'Toole…
- This Kiwi–British production cross–breed is a charmingly eccentric, surprisingly moving 'drawing room' drama set in Edwardian Britain in…
- Skin (2008)
- Dir. Anthony Fabian
Feat. Sophie Okonedo, Sam Neill, Alice Krige…
- Stirring biopic of a black girl born to two white parents in Apartheid era South Africa.
- Crusoe (TV Series) (2008)
- Feat. Philip Winchester, Tongayi Chirisa, Sam Neill…
- Lavishly mounted, if undeniably corny production of Daniel Defoe’s island classic, with the titular castaway fending off pirates, mutineers and…
- Under the Mountain (2009)
- Dir. Jonathan King
Feat. Tom Cameron, Sophie McBride, Sam Neill…
- The special effects are right up to spec, and it's a step up for the director of BLACK SHEEP, but in souping up its source material for a teenage…
- Daybreakers (2009)
- Dir. The Spierig Brothers
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill…
- Inventive take on the vampire genre has a world populated with the fanged undead facing a food shortage with the human population rapidly dwindling.…
- Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga' Hoole (2010)
- Dir. Zack Snyder
Feat. Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, Helen Mirren…
- A young owl who is abducted by an evil Owl army, and must escape with newfound friends to seek out the legendary Guardians to stop the menace.…
- Hunter, The (2011)
- Dir. Daniel Nettheim
Feat. Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Frances O’Connor…
- Willem Dafoe plays a mercenary sent to hunt for an endangered Tasmanian tiger in this sparse, psychological showcase of the Australian wilderness.
- Vow, The (2012)
- Dir. Michael Sucsy
Feat. Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Jessica Lange…
- More fodder for helpless romantics, with beefcake romeo Channing Tatum losing his new bride (Rachel McAdams, naturally) to amnesia via a car…
- Alcatraz (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Sarah Jones, Jorge Garcia, Sam Neill…
- A short–lived but engrossing policier with a mystery hook – a la LOST – which re–imagines San Francisco's Alcatraz prison as…
- Harry (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Oscar Kightley, Sam Neill, Hunter Kamuhemu…
- Oscar Kightley plays a grieving South Auckland detective swamped by a series of armed robberies in this dark, authentic local policier, a welcome…
- Escape Plan (2013)
- Dir. Mikael Håfström
Feat. Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, 50 Cent…
- When a structural–security authority (Stallone) finds himself incarcerated in the world's most secret and secure prison, he has to use his…
- Adventurer, The - The Curse of the Midas Box (2013)
- Dir. Jonathan Newman
Feat. Aneurin Barnard, Lena Headey, Sam Neill…
- Spiffy period adventure set in Victorian England about a teenager racing to find the eponymous 'Midas Box', a treasure which can turn any object to…
- Peaky Blinders (TV Series) (2013)
- Feat. Cillian Murphy, Sam Neill, Helen McCrory…
- A gangster epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy…
- A Long Way Down (2014)
- Dir. Pascal Chaumeil
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Imogen Poots…
- Four lost souls – a disgraced TV presenter, a foul–mouthed teen, an isolated single mother and a solipsistic muso – decide to end…
- Why ANZAC with Sam Neill (Tides of Blood) (2015)
- Feat. Sam Neill
- Sam Neill examines the enduring myths of the Anzac legend, sharing his family's war stories and uncovering forgotten truths. From the Gallipoli…
- Daughter, The (2015)
- Dir. Simon Stone
Feat. Geoffrey Rush, Miranda Otto, Paul Schneider…
- Australian melodrama based on Henrik Ibsen's play "The Wild Duck", in which a prodigal son's return home to a small logging town reveals a dark…
- And Then There Were None (Mini-series) (2015)
- Feat. Douglas Booth, Charles Dance, Maeve Dermody…
- A three–part miniseries based on the popular Agatha Christie novel, perhaps her darkest and most sinister work. Ten strangers are invited to an…
- Backtrack (2015)
- Dir. Michael Petroni
Feat. Adrien Brody, Sam Neill, George Shevtsov…
- Australian paranormal thriller about a psychotherapist (Adrian Brody) who is plagued by sinister visions after the death of his daughter. Returning…
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
- Dir. Taika Waititi
Feat. Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata…
- A feel–good comic misadventure in which a rebellious city kid and his reluctant foster uncle become subjects of a manhunt after they "go bush"…
- Tutankhamun (TV Mini-series) (2016)
- Dir. Peter Webber
Feat. Max Irons, Jonathan Aris, Sam Neill…
- A four–part dramatisation of how a penniless, ostracised archaeologist named Howard Carter became a household name following his discovery of…
- Tommy's Honour (2016)
- Dir. Jason Connery
Feat. Jack Lowden, Peter Mullan, Sam Neill…
- Father and son camaraderie and rivalry lies at the heart of this bittersweet tale of the real–life founders of the modern game of golf set in…
- Sweet Country (2017)
- Dir. Warwick Thornton
Feat. Hamilton Morris, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown…
- A sparse and beautifully shot film from the director of SAMSON AND DELILAH, telling a profound morality tale of almost biblical proportions, and…
- Commuter, The (2018)
- Dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
Feat. Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson…
- A breakneck thriller starring latterday action man Liam Neeson, who here plays an insurance salesman who is unwittingly recruited into a murder…
- The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook with Sam Neill (2018)
- Feat. Sam Neill
- 250 years after Captain James Cook began his epic exploration of the Pacific, Sam Neill journeys in the wake, uncovering stories that resonate from…
- Palm Beach (2019)
- Dir. Rachel Ward
Feat. Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Aaron Jeffery…
- Veteran Australian actor Rachel Ward directs this ensemble comedy in which lifelong friends of a privileged class reunite for a party at Sydney's…
- Ride Like a Girl (2019)
- Dir. Rachel Griffiths
Feat. Teresa Palmer, Sam Neill, Sullivan Stapleton
- Gritty and passionate racing drama based on the true story of jockey Michelle Payne, who fulfilled a life–long dream of winning the Melbourne…
- Blackbird (2019)
- Dir. Roger Michell
Feat. Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Mia Wasikowska…
- An effective remake of the 2014 Danish drama SILENT HEART (2014), with Susan Sarandon playing a terminally ill mother who arranges to bring her…
- Rams (2020)
- Dir. Jeremy Sims
Feat. Sam Neill, Michael Caton, Miranda Richardson…
- Aussie re–imagining of the hit Icelandic comedy RAMS (2016), with Sam Neill the obvious choice to play a farmer in a decades long war with his…
- Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)
- Dir. Colin Trevorrow
Feat. Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern…
- This Jurassic franchise has finally gone full flintstones.
Dinosaurs and Humans coexisting together all over the planet. Numerous homages to…