Sam Neill, Jurassic Park Star, Dies
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Jurassic Park' director Steven Spielberg said the actor, who played Dr Alan Grant, "will never be forgotten" by millions of fans worldwide.
For more than 30 years, audiences have been flocking to every Jurassic Park movie with the promise of seeing lots of dinosaurs. Steven Spielberg’s original 1993 film was one of the biggest movies in the history of Hollywood and eventually led to two sequels.
Steven Spielberg originally had another Hollywood icon in mind before one of the biggest blockbusters in movie history found its perfect leading man.
The actor, who has died aged 78, was refreshingly candid about Hollywood, filmmaking, his cancer treatment – and why he preferred life on his New Zealand farm to the movie business
