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Sam Neill |
| Birth Year |
1947 |
| Comments |
Sam Neill was born in Northern Ireland and moved with his family to Dunedin in New Zealand when he was seven.
In 1971-2, while at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, he started acting seriously, but there was no local film or television industry, so it was impossible to support himself financially. So to be involved with movies, but also earn a living, he took a job with the National Film Unit where he trained as an editor, but also had the opportunity to direct documentaries as well.
After seeing him in a freind's short film, director Roger Donaldson asked him to be in SLEEPING DOGS, which was the first feature film to be made in New Zealand for fifteen years. While promoting the film in Australia, he was spotted by margret Fink, and subsequently, Gillian Armstrong screen tested him for MY BRILLIANT CAREER. When he got the part, he took up residence in Australia.
After the success of MY BRILLIANT CAREER, he moved to England, where he was based for the next five years. Amongst his many roles at the time was that of Reilly in the Euston Films TV series REILLY ACE OF SPIES for which he won a Golden Globe nomination and an award for the most popular actor in the UK. He also played Damien in OMEN III and Kane in the US mini-series KANE AND ABLE. He established a winning relationship with meryl Streep and director fred Schepsi after his role in PLENTY in 1985. The trio later teamed up for the contraversial biography of Lindy chamberlain in EVIL ANGELS, for which Sam neill won the 1989 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor.
For the next three years he travelled between Europe, America and Australia, where he starred in DEAD CALM directed by Phil Noyce, he Laffayette in THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, and co-starred with Sean Connery in THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER. He starred as Carl in the 1992 black comedy DEATH IN BRUNSWICK, and in the Wim Wenders film UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD.
Filmography:
1977 Sleeping Dog.
1979 Journalist.
1979 Just Out Of Reach.
1979 My Brilliant Career.
1981 Attack Force Z.
1981 The Final Conflict.
1981 From A Far Country: Pope John Paul II.
1981 Possession.
1982 Enigma.
1982 Ivanhoe.
1983 The Country Girls.
1984 The Blood Of Others / Le Sang Des Autres.
1985 Plenty.
1985 Robber Under Arms.
1986 For Love Alone.
1986 The Good Wife / The Umbrella Woman.
1986 Strong Medicine.
1988 A Cry In The Dark / Evil Angels.
1988 Leap Of Faith.
1989 Dead Calm.
1989 La Revolution Francaise.
1990 Death In Brunswick.
1990 The Hunt For Red October.
1991 One Against The Wind.
1991 Until The End Of The World.
1992 Hostage.
1992 Memoirs Of An Invisible Man.
1993 Family Pictures.
1993 Jurassic Park.
1993 The Piano.
1994 Country Life.
1994 Rainbow Warriors.
1994 Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book / The Jungle Book.
1994 Sirens.
1995 Cinema Of Unease: A Personal Journey By Sam Neill (director, screenplay).
1995 In The Mouth Of Madness.
1995 Restoration. |
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| chapter - A century of Australian cinema : Developing pictures: Australian cinema (1970-1995) . 00-00-1995. pp.172-197 |
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Peter Kemp
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| This chapter is one in a series documenting the history of cinema in Australia. The book is beautifully presented and contains a large array of still photogr...[full record]
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| newspaper - Black Comedy in Brunswick The Age. p.31 |
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| journal - Kennedy Miller, Cross-Over and Collaboration Cinema Papers. pp.14 - 22 |
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Debi Enker
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| Contains a detailed Kennedy Miller filmography until 1989, in addition to interviews with some of Kennedy Miller's many directors and writers.
Contains st...[full record]
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| journal - Mothers and lovers, oedipal transgressions in recent Australian cinema Metro 91. . pp.14-22 |
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Barbara Creed
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| As the title suggests article deals with Scott and his mother, and the effect Scott's triumph over his mother has on his father.[full record]
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| chapter - The Imaginary Industry, Australian Film in the Late '80s : The Aesthetic Force Field I: The AFC-Genre and the Social Realist FIlm in the '80s . 00-00-1988. pp.81-97 |
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Susan Dermody,
Elizabeth Jacka
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| This book is a thorough analysis of the Australian film industry during the 1980's. It details conditions such as finance, marketing and government policy wh...[full record]
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