Sam Neill was a warm, wry and unselfish star who twinkled so others could shine | Peter Bradshaw
His unshowy gifts, which discreetly carried arthouse drama and blockbuster adventures alike, never sucked a movie’s oxygen in to his own performance ‘I’d like to
His unshowy gifts, which discreetly carried arthouse drama and blockbuster adventures alike, never sucked a movie’s oxygen in to his own performance ‘I’d like to think that, in life, I’m a goodie’: Sam Neill’s final interview His 20 best performances A life in pictures Obituary Neill interviewed in 2023, 2024 and 2026 Sam Neill was the leading man’s leading man who achieved something no other actor could: he was charismatic and self-effacing at the same time. He could play handsome and good-humoured or devilishly sinister, often the husband and paterfamilias, perennially in some unspecified state of early middle age, sometimes in a period colonial setting, but the movie’s oxygen was never sucked away into his own unselfishly excellent performance. Continue reading...
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