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Happy Birthday, Sam Neill! 🤍 Heute vor 79 Jahren wurde er geboren. Es ist der erste Geburtstag ohne ihn. 🎬 Am 14. September 1947 kam Nigel John Dermot Neill in Omagh in Nordirland zur Welt. Sein Vater war Neuseeländer und als Offizier dort stationiert, seine Mutter Engländerin. 1954 kehrte die Familie nach Neuseeland zurück, nach Christchurch. Dort ging er zur Schule, später studierte er englische Literatur. 🎞️ Er kam vom Dokumentarfilm: Für das staatliche National Film Unit schrieb und inszenierte er selbst, darunter „Phone" (1974) und „Architect Athfield" (1977). Im selben Jahr kam „Sleeping Dogs", der Film, der ihn in Neuseeland bekannt machte. Es folgten „Meine brillante Karriere" (1979), „Possession" (1981) und der Spion Sidney Reilly in „Reilly, Ace of Spies" (1983). 🦖 1993 kam die Rolle, die ihn der ganzen Welt bekannt machte: In Steven Spielbergs „Jurassic Park" spielte Sam Neill den Paläontologen Dr. Alan Grant. Er kehrte 2001 in „Jurassic Park III" zurück und 2022 in „Jurassic World: Ein neues Zeitalter". 🎭 Im selben Jahr stand er in Jane Campions „Das Piano" vor der Kamera. Dazu „Jagd auf Roter Oktober" (1990), „Event Horizon" (1997), „Merlin" (1998), Kardinal Thomas Wolsey in „The Tudors" (2007), Major Chester Campbell in „Peaky Blinders" (2013-2014) und „Wo die wilden Menschen jagen" (2016) von Taika Waititi. Mehr als 150 Produktionen, 3 Emmy-Nominierungen, 2 Golden-Globe-Nominierungen. 🍷 Neben dem Drehen war er Winzer. Seit 1993 gehörte ihm Two Paddocks in Central Otago, wo er Pinot Noir anbaute. 🎖️ 1991 wurde er Officer of the Order of the British Empire. 2007 nahm Neuseeland ihn in seinen Verdienstorden auf, 2022 wurde daraus der Rittertitel: Sir Sam Neill. 🇩🇪 Und wer ihn im deutschen Kino gehört hat, hörte meist Wolfgang Condrus. 🕯️ Sam Neill wurde 78 Jahre alt. Was bleibt: • „Sleeping Dogs" (1977), sein Durchbruch • „Meine brillante Karriere" (1979) • „Jagd auf Roter Oktober" (1990) • Dr. Alan Grant in „Jurassic Park" (1993) • „Das Piano" (1993) • „Merlin" (1998) • Major Chester Campbell in „Peaky Blinders" (2013-2014) • „Wo die wilden Menschen jagen" (2016) Danke für alles, Sam Neill. Für immer unvergessen. 🕯️ 📷 Foto: Office of the Governor-General of New Zealand, Investitur zum Knight Companion, Government House Auckland, 11. Oktober 2022 (Ausschnitt), via Wikimedia Commons - CC0 1.0, gemeinfrei freigegeben #SamNeill #HappyBirthdaySamNeill #JurassicPark #PeakyBlinders #FürImmerUnvergessen #emoria

On September 4, 2026 we remember Steve Irwin. It is his 20th memorial day. 🤍 The world called him the Crocodile Hunter. He never hunted: he protected crocodiles. His family carries his work on. 🤍 🌱 Steve Irwin grew up among the animals: in 1970 his parents opened a small reptile park in Beerwah, Queensland. At 6 he caught his first venomous snake, at 9 he wrestled his first small crocodile into the boat. Years later he spent months alone in northern Australia, catching problem crocodiles for the Queensland government - the animals were not killed, they were relocated. 💚 In 1991 Steve Irwin took over his parents' wildlife park. 2 days later an American tourist walked through the gate: Terri. 8 months later she was his wife - and their honeymoon, a crocodile-catching trip, became the first episode of The Crocodile Hunter. The series aired in over 100 countries and made him one of the world's best-known Australians. 💛 He turned that fame into conservation. On television he said: every single cent goes straight into conservation. In 2002 Steve and Terri founded Wildlife Warriors, and in memory of his mother they built a wildlife hospital - up to 10,000 animals a year. 🕯️ In September 2006 the world said goodbye. A sea of flowers grew outside his zoo, and his daughter Bindi, 8, said: my daddy was my hero. What remains: • Australia Zoo - Terri, Bindi and Robert Irwin run it to this day • The Steve Irwin Wildlife Reserve: over 130,000 hectares on Cape York, dedicated in 2007 • A wildlife hospital treating up to 10,000 patients a year • A species of turtle that carries his name: Elseya irwini • The first published satellite study of wild crocodiles - with Steve Irwin as co-author In Mooloolaba his memorial stands in white stone: Steve with his children, a crocodile in their arms. Forever remembered. 🕯️ 📷 Photos (details, edited), all via Wikimedia Commons: John (Flickr: shebalso), Sheba_Also, Richard Giles, Bernard Dupont, Eva Rinaldi, Ian Sutton, Chris Olszewski - licences CC BY 2.0/4.0 and CC BY-SA 2.0/4.0. 🎬 Jumping crocodile: Mutante, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0); other background footage: Pexels. 🎵 Music: Tomaso Albinoni, Oboe Concerto in D minor op. 9 no. 2, Adagio, oboe: Paul Arden-Taylor (Musopen, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0). This video is a derivative work and is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

In loving memory of Sam Neill (1947–2026). 🕯️ The New Zealand actor died today in Sydney at the age of 78. As Dr. Alan Grant he became the face of “Jurassic Park” for a whole generation, starred in Jane Campion’s “The Piano”, and in 1986 was the frontrunner to play James Bond. During the pandemic, his ukulele videos gave millions of people courage — and he was loved for it. Which Sam Neill role stays with you the most? Photo: Mark Tantrum · CC BY 4.0 #SamNeill #JurassicPark #InLovingMemory