{"id":2499723,"date":"2026-07-13T06:12:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2499723"},"modified":"2026-07-13T06:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:12:01","slug":"sam-neill-dead-at-78-starred-in-jurassic-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sam-neill-dead-at-78-starred-in-jurassic-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Neill dead at 78, starred in &#8216;Jurassic Park&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sam Neill, the star of the 1993 blockbuster \u2018Jurassic Park\u2019 died at 78 Monday, it was announced on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DauK0SrT6uJ\/?igsh=MTRvanI5MmJ5a2l5NQ%3D%3D\">Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with immense sadness that the wh\u0101nau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia,\u201d the Instragram post read. \u201cSam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterised his whole life.The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent\u2019s Private Hospital for their incredible care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/04\/28\/celebrity-news\/jurassic-park-star-sam-neill-reveals-hes-now-cancer-free\/\">actor had announced<\/a> in late April he was cancer-free after battling stage 3 blood cancer for five years.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source pagesix.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Neill, the star of the 1993 blockbuster \u2018Jurassic Park\u2019 died at 78 Monday, it was announced on Instagram. \u201cIt is with immense sadness that the wh\u0101nau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia,\u201d the Instragram post read. \u201cSam was surrounded by family and passed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2499724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741,22064],"class_list":["post-2499723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-obituaries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Sam-Neill-dead-at-78-starred-in-Jurassic-Park.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2499723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499725,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499723\/revisions\/2499725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2499724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}