New Delhi, July 13 -- SYDNEY - Six months before he died, Sam Neill stood before cameras and announced something that seemed, by all reasonable measure, like the close of a medical ordeal that might have claimed him. The angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma that had quietly progressed through his blood was gone. He said it in April 2026, after more than a year of chemotherapy and experimental treatment. Three months later, on July 13, his family confirmed his death in Sydney at 78. The loss, they said, was "sudden and unexpected."

The New Zealand actor who gave Dr. Alan Grant his wry, reluctant gravity in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park died on Monday. His family's statement said he "was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity th...