{"id":2504411,"date":"2026-07-16T11:24:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2504411"},"modified":"2026-07-16T11:24:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:24:57","slug":"jurassic-park-actor-sam-neill-died-from-pneumonia-agent-says-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jurassic-park-actor-sam-neill-died-from-pneumonia-agent-says-nbc-6-south-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Jurassic Park\u2019 actor Sam Neill died from pneumonia, agent says \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Actor Sam Neill<\/a> died from pneumonia and will be honored at a private family memorial at his New Zealand farm later, his agent told The Associated Press on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Neill’s family had earlier announced the actor known for \u201cJurassic Park,\u201d \u201cThe Piano\u201d and other films died Monday in Sydney.<\/p>\n

His agent Philip Grenz said he was providing more information after speaking with Neill’s family and following news reports \u201cwhich contain inaccuracies and outright falsehoods,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

“Sam passed away from pneumonia,” Grenz said. \u201cPrior to becoming sick, Sam had valiantly fought and beaten lymphoma through a new treatment called CAR-T therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that Neill had filmed four projects \u201cback-to-back\u201d during the past year that are due to be released in the coming months. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs Sam was an intensely private man who loathed a fuss, his family will honor him with a private family memorial at his farm in New Zealand at a still-undetermined later date,\u201d Grenz said. <\/p>\n

The New Zealand actor disclosed in 2023 that he had been diagnosed with angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and said in April this year that he was cancer-free. CAR-T therapy is a form of immunotherapy based on an individual’s T cells and is used for several types of blood cancer.<\/p>\n

His agent’s statement followed\u00a0days of tributes<\/a>\u00a0to Neill from film industry colleagues who remembered him as a kind, witty and curious man.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are so loved and will be sorely missed by us all,\u201d director Taika Waititi, who directed Neill in 2016’s \u201cHunt for the Wilderpeople\u201d \u2014 one of Neill’s best-loved films in New Zealand \u2014 wrote on Instagram on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

\u201cLove you and see you soon, sweet Nigel,” Waititi wrote, referring to Neill’s birth name, which he told interviewers he had changed to Sam at school because there were too many Nigels in his class.<\/p>\n

\u201cSam was exceptionally collaborative,” said Steven Spielberg, who helmed the first \u201cJurassic Park\u201d movie, in which Neill played paleontologist Alan Grant. <\/p>\n

\u201cI adored making all the Jurassic movies with him,\u201d Spielberg said in a statement. “Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world.\u201d <\/p>\n

Neill was one of a host of actors and directors who achieved international fame after an explosion of Australian films that began in the late 1970s. In New Zealand, he has been mourned as a friendly, unassuming person who shunned celebrity and contributed to causes and community projects near his home, according to local news outlets.<\/p>\n

Neill was also a vintner and under his Two Paddocks brand, he produced pinot noir and riesling wines from his winery in the Central Otago region of New Zealand\u2019s South Island.<\/p>\n

He is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSam Neill dishes on playing a less-than-perfect father in the Peacock miniseries “Apples Never Fall,” and also opens up about his real name. He shares how his love of Westerns growing up inspired his nickname.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nbcmiami.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actor Sam Neill died from pneumonia and will be honored at a private family memorial at his New Zealand farm later, his agent told The Associated Press on Thursday. Neill’s family had earlier announced the actor known for \u201cJurassic Park,\u201d \u201cThe Piano\u201d and other films died Monday in Sydney. His agent Philip Grenz said he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2504412,"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":[25177],"tags":[24003],"class_list":["post-2504411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784201096_\u2018Jurassic-Park-actor-Sam-Neill-died-from-pneumonia-agent-says.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504411","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=2504411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504413,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504411\/revisions\/2504413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2504412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2504411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2504411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2504411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}