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LOS ANGELES – British-born actor Julian Sands, best known for his role in the Oscar-winning film “A Room with a View,” has died on Tuesday, five months after disappearing on a snow-covered hike. Officials say there are mountains near Los Angeles.
Human remains, mostly skeletal, found by hikers near where Sands, 65, disappeared, were identified by the San Bernardino County coroner as acting, the county sheriff’s department said.
An avid hiker and hiker, the artist was reported missing on the night of Friday, Jan. 13, after he went hiking alone in the Bucket Bowl Wilderness Preserve in the San Gabriel Mountains.
A search party organized at the time withdrew after 24 hours due to danger and bad track conditions. According to the Sheriff’s Department, a series of efforts came up empty-handed, including a massive search over the weekend before Sands’ body was finally recovered.
Heavy snow from weeks of winter storms in Southern California has made Baldy Mountain an outdoor recreation destination, despite weather advisories warning that sands have settled into the area.
Cellphone signals recovered on Sunday, Jan. 15, showed Sands heading toward the ridge of Baldy Mountain, the last indication he was still on the move, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
Sands In an interview with The Guardian newspaper in 2020, he described himself as “excited to approach the top of a mountain on a gloriously cold morning”. He recalled a brush with death in the early 1990s when he and three others were caught in a storm above 20,000 feet while climbing the Andes.
“We were all in a very bad way,” he said. “Some people close to us are gone. We were lucky.”
Love and horror
Born the third of five boys in England and educated at Lord Wandsworth College in Hampshire, Sands began his career playing supporting roles in films such as “Oxford Blues,” as the love rival of Rob Lowe’s lead character, and “Killing Fields,” playing a young war correspondent in Cambodia.
Sands moved to California in the 1980s and was cast as the leading man opposite Helena Bonham Carter after the success of “A Room with a View,” an Edwardian-era romance.
By EM Forster It won Oscars for Best Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction and Costume Design.
Developing a knack for the horror genre, Sands starred as Satan’s Son in the 1989 supernatural thriller “Warlock” and its sequel, “Warlock: Armageddon.” In the year He played a spider specialist in the 1990 comedy “Arachnophobia”, a twisted, twisted surgeon in 1993 “Box Helena” and the title role in the 1998 film “Phantom of the Opera”.
Other films include “Get Out of Las Vegas”, “Naked Lunch” and the English-language remake of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”. He also appeared in more than two dozen television shows, including “Smallville” as Superman’s biological father, Jor-El.
In recent years, Sands has found success as a one-man onstage reading poems by Harold Pinter, John Keats and Percy Shelley, the latter of whom starred in the 1986 psychological thriller Gothic.
Although he was not nominated for an Oscar, Sands met Jodie Foster in 2010. The two starred in the little-seen 1987 indie film “Siesta.”
But the outdoors, and climbing in particular, remained a lifelong obsession.
As quoted in a 2020 interview with Thrive Global, a company founded by Ariana Huffington, Sands said the climb was not about ego or “racing for a big heroic race,” but about “pleasure and sacrifice and humility.”
“It’s not self-respect, it’s self-consciousness. And on these walks you lose yourself, become a vessel of energy in harmony with your surroundings.”
He has two daughters with his second wife, Evgenia Sitkowitz, a journalist. He has a son with his first wife, journalist Sarah Harvey.
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