Revel in the versatile charm of Sam Neill". SBS Movies. 3 December 2021 . Retrieved 16 November 2022. New Year honours list 2007". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 30 December 2006. Archived from the original on 23 July 2019 . Retrieved 29 August 2020. When the first lot of chemo failed and it looked like I was on the way out, I was signed up for a new type of chemo."

Among the revelations in his book is that he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer a year ago.He portrayed the eponymous wizard in Merlin (1998), a miniseries based on the legends of King Arthur. He reprised his role in the sequel, Merlin's Apprentice (2006). Sir 'just far too grand' for Neill". Otago Daily Times. 1 August 2009. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021 . Retrieved 1 August 2009. In 1981, he won his first big international role, as Damien Thorn, son of the devil, in Omen III: The Final Conflict; [18] also in that year, he played an outstanding main role in Andrzej Żuławski's cult film Possession. [18] The Christmas just passed, then, was particularly sweet: “I’ve never felt so well or happy in my life, it was fabulous to be able to taste everything. The wine was glorious and the food was superb. I swam every day down in my dam, and it was the most marvellous time … I had my family and all the grandchildren. It was just fantastic.” I would look in the mirror and see a completely different person, not a hair on my head, no eyelashes, the beard had fallen off on a pillow somewhere in hospital. I was unrecognisable

In 1954, Neill moved with his family to New Zealand, where he attended the Anglican boys' boarding school Christ's College, Christchurch. He went on to study English literature at the University of Canterbury, where he had his first exposure to acting. He moved to Wellington to continue his tertiary education at Victoria University, where he graduated with a BA in English literature. After being diagnosed with cancer, Neill’s life had to go on hiatus for a while, and so began the inception of Did I Ever Tell You This?. It’s a perceptive, funny and magnificently wise memoir. Whether or not you even know his work as an actor (and who doesn’t?), it is enlightening to get a glimpse of his world beyond that.I am like a stunned mullet, and I can feel my smile beginning to freeze … I cannot believe this is happening." Released today, Sam Neill's unmissable memoir, Did I Ever Tell You This? explores the journey of his life and career, from humble