{"id":39422,"date":"2026-07-13T10:02:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39422"},"modified":"2026-07-13T10:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:02:38","slug":"new-zealand-actor-sam-neill-dies-at-78","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/new-zealand-actor-sam-neill-dies-at-78\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand actor Sam Neill dies at 78"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">New Zealand actor Sam Neil has died at the age of 78, just months after revealing he was cancer-free following treatment for stage-three blood cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">His family says his death was unexpected but took comfort in the fact that he had beaten cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Best known for his iconic role in Jurassic Park, Neill was hailed by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as a man of dignity, wit and quiet strength.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Albanese said Neil would be &#8220;much mourned and long remembered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39423,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-39422","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"New Zealand actor Sam Neil has died","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39424,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39422\/revisions\/39424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}