Sam Neill's Cause of Death Confirmed as Pneumonia

Overview

• Neill died on July 13, 2026, and his longtime agent Philip Grenz publicly confirmed that a lung infection, pneumonia, was the cause of death.
• Grenz said Neill had beaten a lymphoma months earlier after receiving CAR-T therapy, and that doctors had declared him cancer-free before the pneumonia developed.
• The agent told Entertainment Weekly that Neill filmed four projects in the past year and will appear posthumously in those works.
• Two of the completed titles publicly identified so far are the romantic comedy The Last Resort and the monster film Godzilla x Kong: Supernova.
• The family plans a private memorial on Neill’s New Zealand farm, and public reaction has included criticism of an Alec Baldwin Instagram farewell that users said focused on Baldwin’s memories rather than honoring Neill.