Not just Jurassic Park, Sam Neill played one of Peaky Blinders’ most memorable villains
Sam Neill, veteran actor, passed away at 78 on July 13. Most fans know him for playing Dr Alan Grant, the palaeontologist who made Jurassic Park a defining film of the 1990s. But long before the dinosaurs, Neill built a career that went in a very different direction. On British television, he found a second signature role: Chief Inspector Chester Campbell, the ruthless antagonist who terrorised the Shelby family through the first two seasons of Peaky Blinders. It’s a performance many consider one of the finest villain turns of his career, precisely because it went against everything audiences expected of him.
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