British actor Julian Sands, who starred in a number of Oscar-nominated movies within the late Nineteen Eighties and ’90s, together with A Room With a View and Leaving Las Vegas, was discovered useless on a Southern California mountain 5 months after he disappeared whereas climbing, authorities mentioned Tuesday.
An investigation confirmed that it was Sands whose stays hikers discovered on Sunday in wilderness close to Mount Baldy, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Division mentioned. The 65-year-old actor was a longtime avid hiker who lived in Los Angeles and was reported lacking on Jan. 13 after setting out for the height, which rises greater than 3,048 metres east of town.
Crews aided by drones and helicopters had looked for Sands a number of occasions however had been severely hampered by wintry situations that lasted via spring. There was no signal of Sands till the hikers came across his stays.
It has not but been decided how he died, authorities mentioned.
40-year profession
Sands, who was born, raised and commenced appearing in England, labored always in movie and tv, amassing greater than 150 credit in a 40-year profession. Throughout a 10-year span from 1985 to 1995, he performed main roles in a collection of acclaimed movies.
After finding out on the Royal Central Faculty of Speech and Drama in London, Sands launched into a profession in stage and movie, taking part in small components in movies together with Oxford Blues and The Killing Fields. He landed the starring function of George Emerson, who falls in love with Helena Bonham Carter’s Lucy Honeychurch, whereas on vacation in Tuscany, within the 1985 British romance A Room With a View.
The movie from director James Ivory and producer Ismail Service provider gained the British Academy of Movie and Tv Arts award for finest movie, and was nominated for eight Oscars, profitable three.
Within the wake of its success, Sands moved to the US to pursue a profession in Hollywood.
He performed the title function within the 1989 horror fantasy Warlock and its sequel. Within the 1990 horror comedy Arachnophobia, with Jeff Daniels and John Goodman, Sands performed an entomologist specializing in spiders.
The next 12 months, he appeared in Canadian director David Cronenberg’s surreal adaptation of the William Burroughs novel Bare Lunch in 1991.
In 1993, Sands starred within the thriller Boxing Helena, a film that drew main media consideration throughout manufacturing when Madonna and Kim Basinger every accepted the title function earlier than backing out. The half went to Twin Peaks actor Sherilyn Fenn. The movie flopped.
Writer Anne Rice championed Sands to play the titular Lestat within the much-hyped 1994 Hollywood adaptation of her novel Interview With the Vampire, however the function went to Tom Cruise.
In 1995’s Leaving Las Vegas, Sands performed an abusive Latvian pimp alongside Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue. The movie was nominated for 4 Oscars, with Cage profitable finest actor.
After Leaving Las Vegas, the standard of the movies Sands was forged in, and the dimensions of his roles, started declining. He labored steadily, showing in director Wim Wenders’ The Million Greenback Lodge and director Dario Argento’s The Phantom of the Opera.
He additionally appeared as a visitor star or in recurring roles on TV collection, together with 24, Medici, Smallville, Dexter, Gotham and Elementary. His ultimate movie was 2022’s The Ghosts of Monday.
‘Lover of the pure world’
Sands was born in Yorkshire, the center baby of 5 brothers raised by a single mom. He had three youngsters of his personal.
He had been married since 1990 to journalist Evgenia Citkowitz, with whom he had two grownup daughters, Imogen Morley Sands and Natalya Morley Sands. His eldest baby was son Henry Sands, whom he had along with his first spouse, journalist Sarah Harvey.
Sands touted his love of the outside in a 2020 interview with the Guardian, saying he was happiest when “near a mountain summit on an excellent chilly morning” and that his greatest dream was scaling “a distant peak within the excessive Himalayas, comparable to Makalu.”
The actor mentioned within the interview that within the early Nineties, he was caught in an “atrocious” storm within the Andes and was fortunate to outlive when three others close to his get together did not.
A number of days earlier than he was discovered, Sands’s household issued an announcement saying, “We proceed to carry Julian in our hearts with brilliant recollections of him as a beautiful father, husband, explorer, lover of the pure world and the humanities, and as an authentic and collaborative performer.”
