Did I Ever Tell You This? (Paperback)

Sam Neill

ISBN 10: 140595745X / ISBN 13: 9781405957458

Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2024

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Paperback. THE HEARTWARMING, LIFE-AFFIRMING MEMOIR FROM THE MUCH-LOVED FILM ICON WHOSE LEGACY WILL LIVE ONJust wonderful MERYL STREEPSam Neill is a legend LAURA DERNFabulously entertaining, insanely readable STEPHEN FRYA real treat. Fantastic GRAHAM NORTONReally, really, really funny . . . cracking stories LORRAINE KELLYA transparently lovely man, with a life hectically well lived Mail on SundayDead CalmThe Hunt for Red OctoberThe PianoJurassic ParkThrough an incredible, iconic life and career, Sam Neills name has been a hallmark of quality. From enduring blockbusters to arthouse and cult classics, his work brought him all over the world, working with Hollywoods greats.Written just two years before his death, Neill's revelatory memoir Did I Ever Tell You This? invites us in, sharing stories from an extraordinary life with heaps of charm, honesty and a good-humoured appreciation for the absurd.Just wonderful, so funny and charming. Sam Neill's lively, lovely book made me laugh out loud MERYL STREEPSam Neill is a legend, and in this magnificent book he shares his stories of family, friends and film LAURA DERNReally, really, really funny. There are some cracking stories LORRAINE KELLYI love this book. A real treat. Fantastic GRAHAM NORTON Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Did I Ever Tell You This? (Paperback)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 140595745X
• ISBN 13: 9781405957458
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tells the story of how he became one of the world’s most celebrated actors, who has worked with everyone from Meryl Streep to Isabel Adjani, from Jeff Goldblum to Sean Connery, from Steven Spielberg to Jane Campion.By his own account, his career has been a series of unpredictable turns of fortune. Born in 1947 in Northern Ireland, he emigrated to New Zealand at the age of seven. His family settled in Dunedin on the South Island, but young Sam was sent away to boarding school in Christchurch, where he was hopeless at sports and discovered he enjoyed acting.But how did you become an actor in New Zealand in the 1960 and 1970s where there was no film industry? After university he made documentary films while also appearing in occasional amateur productions of Shakespeare. In 1977 he took the lead in Sleeping Dogs, the first feature made in New Zealand in more than a decade, a project that led to a major role in Gillian Armstrong’s celebrated My Brilliant Career.And after that Sam Neill found his way, sometimes by accident, into his own brilliant career. He has worked around the world, an actor who has moved effortlessly from blockbuster to art house to TV, from Dr Alan Grant in the Jurassic Park movies to The Piano and Peaky Blinders.Did I Ever Tell You This? is a joy to read, a marvellous and often very funny book, the work of a natural storyteller who is a superb observer of other people, and who writes with love and warmth about his family. It is also his account of his life outside film, especially in Central Otago where he established Two Paddocks, his vineyard famous for its pinot noir.