(CNN Spanish) — British actor Julian Sands was finally found dead after his disappearance in January in the San Gabriel Mountains, southern California, authorities reported on Tuesday, June 27. Sands was known for his work on shows like “24” and movies like “A Room with a View.”
He was 65 years old. She had a wide-ranging career in film and television, which included several supporting roles and a couple of notable leading roles.
The most remembered roles of Julian Sands
A tall, thin actor, Sands is best known for his television roles as Vladimir Bierko, an antagonist on the fifth season of “24,” as well as Superman’s father, Jor-El, on “Smallville.”
On film, he played the title character in two editions of the “Warlock” horror film franchise (in which he was the lead) and his credits include “Naked Lunch,” “Arachnophobia” (directed by Steven Spielberg) and “Leaving Las Vegas” and “The Medallion” (Jackie Chan film in which Sands was the antagonist).
He also appeared on TV shows like “Smallville,” the Netflix TV series “What/If” and the Peter Capaldi-directed drama “Benediction.”
He began his extensive career in the early 1980s in the NBC miniseries The Sun Also Rises” and the made-for-TV movie “A Married Man,” opposite Anthony Hopkins and the film “The Killing Fields.”
Julian Sands, left, with John Malkovich in “The Killing Fields” of 1984 (Credit: Warner Brothers/Everett Collection)
He gained fame with his roles in “A Room with a View” in 1985 and “Gothic” in 1986.
In 1998, he starred with Asia Argento in “The Phantom of the Opera” by Italian Dario Argento.
“The truth is, once you’ve been around long enough and have some experience, confidence and independence, you tremendously let go of things that are intrusive in your career: ambition, narcissism, jealousy, vanity, insecurity,” she told The Guardian in a 2018 profile. “You can spend a lot of time trying to remain a young actor. It doesn’t allow for emotional maturity. It’s infantilizing.”
Sands was married to the journalist and writer Evgenia Citkowitz, whom he married in 1990, according to the profile of The Guardian. The couple had two children.
What we know about the disappearance and death of Julian Sands
The actor has been the target of an ongoing search in the Mt. Baldy area since he did not return from a hike on Jan. 13. According to his family, Sands loved to hike.
The weather conditions made the search difficult in the weeks after his disappearance. Earlier this month, authorities announced a new effort to locate Sands.
More than 80 search and rescue volunteers, attendants and staff participated in the search efforts in recent days, supported by two helicopters and drone teams as search volunteers in “remote areas across Mount Baldy,” according to officials.
Human remains were found last week in the area where Sands was being searched for.
Mt. Baldy is located in the San Gabriel Mountains in San Bernardino County.
“When he was in Los Angeles, the Mt Baldy range was his favorite place, he went there whenever he could,” his brother told the British publication Craven Herald & Pioneer. “Julian liked to say, ‘I’ve never had a vacation, but I take a break from time to time’; well, now he’s resting in a place that he would really approve of.”
With information from Alli Rosenbloom, Lisa Respers France, and Chuck Johnston
