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The Guardian reports that the actor Sam Neill has died at the age of seventy-eight. Director George Miller remembered him as, in his words, comprehensively an amazing person, saying Neill lived life very fully and with an enormous amount of wisdom. Miller noted that while Neill was at heart a New Zealander, he had significant influence on Australian cinema and on the global film industry.

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