Sam Neill, the 78-year-old actor everyone remembers looking up at the sky alongside the first dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, died on July 13 at St. Vincent’s Private Hospital in Sydney. Confusing accounts circulated about what had happened to him. 🦕
His agent, Philip Grenz, decided to put an end to the rumors: Neill died of pneumonia, not cancer. Months earlier, he had beaten a rare non-Hodgkin lymphoma thanks to cutting-edge CAR-T therapy, and in April he had announced that he was free of the disease. His family described the death as sudden and unexpected, but wanted to make one thing clear: he passed away with no cancer hanging over him.
Steven Spielberg, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Bryce Dallas Howard shared farewell messages for him. The family is preparing a private memorial at his farm in New Zealand. 🌿