British-born actor Julian Sands, best known for his role in the Oscar-winning film The View Roomhas been confirmed dead, five months after she disappeared while hiking in the snow-covered mountains near Los Angeles, authorities said.
Human remains found Saturday in the area where Sands, 65, went missing were identified by the San Bernardino County coroner as belonging to the actor, the sheriff’s department said.
The actor, who is known to be an avid hiker and hiker, was reported missing on the evening of Friday, January 13, after a solo trip to the Baldy Bowl Wilderness Preserve in the San Gabriel Mountains earlier that day.
The search team that was organized at the time was called off after 24 hours due to the threat of flooding and poor navigation. Several efforts came up empty, including a massive search over the weekend before Sands’ remains were found, according to the sheriff’s department, which confirmed the death on Tuesday.
Sand swept into the area despite weather advisories warning that heavy snow from the Southern California storm made the Mount Baldy area treacherous for outdoor sports, with overnight temperatures dropping between -4 degrees Celsius and 4degC at times.
Cell phone records obtained Sunday, Jan. 15, showed Sands at the time heading toward Mount Baldy, which appears to be the last sign that he was on the move, the sheriff’s department said.
Sands, in talks for 2020 and The Guardian newspaper, described himself as happiest when he was “near the top of a mountain on a cold morning.”
He also recalled a brush with death during a climb in the Andes in the early 1990s when he was caught in a storm above 6000 meters (20,000 feet) with three others.
“We were all in a bad way,” he said. “Some of the guys we had around were destroyed. We were lucky.”
Romance and danger
Born in England as the third of five boys and educated at Lord Wandsworth College in Hampshire, Sands began his career by contributing to films such as. Oxford Blueslooks like Rob Lowe’s love match for the director, and The Killing Fieldsplaying a young war correspondent in Cambodia.
Sands moved to California in the 1980s after success The View RoomAn Edwardian era romance in which he was cast as the lead opposite Helena Bonham Carter.
Based on EM Forster’s 1908 novel of the same title and set in England and Italy, this 1985 film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including best picture. It won Oscars for best adapted play, creative direction and costume design.
Developing a knack for the horror genre, Sands also starred as Satan’s son in the 1989 supernatural thriller. War and its consequences War: Armageddon.
He played a spider expert in the 1990 comedy-creeper Arachnophobiaa twisted, obsessive doctor in the 1993s Boxing Helena and his role in the 1998 film of The Phantom of the Opera.
Other films in the group From Las Vegas, Naked Dinner and the revision of the English language of The girl with the Dragon tattoo. He also appeared in more than two television shows, among them Smallville as Superman’s biological father Jor-El.
In recent years, Sands has found success appearing in one-man roles reciting poems by Harold Pinter, John Keats and Percy Shelley, the latter of whom starred in a 1986 psychological thriller. Gothic.
Although he never nominated himself for an Oscar, Sands dated Jodie Foster and accompanied her to the Academy Awards in 1989 the night she won her first best actress award. Defendant. The two starred in a little-seen 1987 indie film Siesta.
But the outdoors, and hiking in particular, remained a lifelong passion.
As mentioned in a 2020 interview with Thrive Global, a company founded by Arianna Huffington, Sands said that the climb was not about arrogance or “a big rush of energy at the meeting” but “about prayer and dedication and humility.”
“It’s not so much a celebration of yourself but an end to your self-awareness. And so in this movement you lose yourself, you become a vessel of energy in harmony with your hope and nature.”
He is survived by his second wife, Evgenia Citkowitz, a journalist, with whom he had two daughters. He also had a son with his first wife, journalist Sarah Harvey.
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