Sam Neill, 'Jurassic Park' actor, dies at 78

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Set us as preferred Actor Sam Neill, a leading man best known for his role as Dr.Alan Grant in the “Jurassic Park” movies, died on Sunday.

He was 78.“Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterized his whole life,” his family wrote on Instagram.“The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.”Neill announced in April that after five years of living with cancer he was in remission due to a new cancer therapy.

Neill had angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, a rare and agressive type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.He used the news of his remission to promote CAR T-cell therapy, which genetically alters one’s cells to fight cancer, after he said chemotherapy stopped working.

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