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The New Zealand actor Sam Neill has died at the age of seventy-eight, The Guardian reports. Director George Miller, a longtime collaborator, remembered him as not just a gifted performer but 'comprehensively an amazing person' who lived life fully and with great wisdom. Miller noted that while Neill was at heart a Kiwi, he had a significant influence on Australian cinema and on the wider global film industry.

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