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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Sian Cain

Sam Neill’s cause of death revealed to be pneumonia

Sam Neill with grey hair and beard wearing a black coat and patterned scarf smiles at the camera
Sam Neill pictured in 2016. The New Zealand actor’s cause of death was pneumonia, his representative has revealed. Neill died on Monday, prompting a wave of tributes and grief from around the world. Photograph: Variety/Penske Media/Getty Images

Sam Neill’s cause of death was pneumonia, his longtime representative has revealed.

The 78-year-old actor’s “sudden and unexpected” death was announced on Monday, just three months after Neill revealed he was finally cancer-free since being diagnosed with stage three angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a type of blood cancer, in 2022.

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