Julian Sands in March 2022.Photo:Jon Kopaloff/WireImage
Jon Kopaloff/WireImage
Julian Sands, the 65-year-old actor who went missing in January while hiking California’s Mount Baldy, has been confirmed dead.
“The identification process for the body located on Mt. Baldy on June 24, 2023, has been completed and was positively identified as 65-year-old Julian Sands of North Hollywood. The manner of death is still under investigation, pending further test results,” the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department said in a statement. “We would like to extend our gratitude to all the volunteers that worked tirelessly to try to locate Mr. Sands.”
The British actor is best known for roles in films like 1985’sA Room with a View, 1989’sWarlockand1990’sArachnophobia.
On television, Sands had roles onSmallville,24andCrossbonesand he lent his voice to the animated seriesJackie Chan Adventures.
He was previously married to journalist Sarah Sands, with whom he shared son Henry. He married author Evgenia Citkowitz in 1990, and they had daughters Natalya and Imogen.
Julian Sands in September 2019.Marco Piraccini/Archivio Marco Piraccini/Mondadori Portfolio
Marco Piraccini/Archivio Marco Piraccini/Mondadori Portfolio
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“We continue to hold Julian in our hearts with bright memories of him as a wonderful father, husband, explorer, lover of the natural world and the arts, and as an original and collaborative performer,” his family added at the time.
Search and rescue crews previously were not successful in locating Sands in the immediate days following his disappearance, though the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said as early as Jan. 23 that it would “continue to utilize the resources” it has at its disposal.
The actor’s brother Nick said in January that he believed Julian, whom he affectionately calls “Jules,” was “gone,” telling theCraven Herald & Pioneeron Jan. 24, “He has not yet been declared missing, presumed dead, butI know in my heart that he has gone.”
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“However, sibling rivalry being what it is, it would be just like him to walk out of there and prove me wrong,” Nick added.
Sands mostrecently appeared alongside his friendand costarJohn Malkovichin the movieSeneca: On the Creation of Earthquakes, which had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
The actor also recently starred in a movie titledThe Piper, released this year, and has three additional projects in post-production, according to IMDb.
Julian Sands.Murray Close/Sygma/Sygma
Murray Close/Sygma/Sygma
An avid hiker, Sandstold The Guardian in 2020that a “remote peak in the high Himalayas, such as Makalu” topped his bucket list — and that the closest he’d ever come to death was during an excursion in the Andes Mountains in the early 1990s, when he and three others were “caught in an atrocious storm above 20,000 feet.”
“We were all in a very bad way. Some guys close to us perished; we were lucky,” he added.
Julian Sands.Kurt Krieger/Corbis/Getty
In the same interview, Sands said his greatest fear is “inactivity, immobility, ill health and boredom,” and added that he is happiest when he is “close to a mountain summit on a glorious cold morning.”
source: people.com
