Julian Sands, five months after he first disappeared while on a hike, has been confirmed dead by California authorities.
The 65-year-old actor first went missing in January, while he was hiking California's Mount Baldy.
The news comes two days after the San Fernando Sheriff's Department revealed that fellow hikers had discovered human remains in the Mount Baldy area, which have now been revealed to have been Sands'.
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"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 San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department said in a statement Tuesday.
They added: "The manner of death is still under investigation, pending further test results."
The statement concluded: "We would like to extend our gratitude to all the volunteers that worked tirelessly to try to locate Mr. Sands."
© GettyBorn Julian Richard Morley Sands on January 4, 1958, in Otley, England, Sands began acting as a child, inspired by his mom Brenda Sands and her work in theater.
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He further developed his passion for acting when he enrolled in the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, though he left in 1979 and subsequently started his own youth theater group.
© GettyHis film career began in the early 1980s with roles on Oxford Blues in 1984 and The Killing Fields the same year, and he had his breakout role as George Emerson in A Room with a View in 1985.
He also had notable roles as the titular character in 1989's supernatural horror film Warlock, as an entomologist in Arachnophobia in 1990, playing Louis XIV in Vatel in 2000, and more.
© GettySands was previously married to British journalist and author Sarah Harvey from 1984 to 1987, and they had one son together, Henry, 37. In 1990, he married Evgenia Citkowitz, the daughter of composer Israel Citkowitz and writer Lady Caroline Blackwood, who herself is a playwright, author and journalist. They had two daughters together, Natalya, 26, and Imogen, 23. All three of his children joined the search for the late actor following his disappearance, which at the time was disrupted by severe storms in the area.
Per the New York Times, in a 2013 book by Jeryl Brunner titled My City, My Los Angeles: Famous People Share Their Favorite Places, Sands was quoted as saying of the mountain where he would eventually pass: "I must have been up Mount Baldy about 200 times, so I think this is a real favorite," and: "I like it in winter. Winter conditions make it a bit more interesting."
