British actor Julian Sands (stock photo) Photo: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP/dpa
From BZ/dpa
A good five months after the disappearance of British actor Julian Sands (“Room with a View”) in California, hikers in the mountainous area found a body there.
She will now be identified, said the sheriff’s office in the San Bernardino district on Saturday (local time). The result is expected within the week.
Sands left for a trip to the Mount Baldy area northeast of Los Angeles on January 13 and has not returned. The 65-year-old actor, who was reportedly an avid mountain hiker, lived near Hollywood.
Mount Baldy is part of the San Gabriel mountain range and is almost 3070 meters high. The sheriff’s office warned against hiking there in January because of dangerous weather conditions with ice and snow.
In his long career, in addition to A Room With a View, Sands has appeared in numerous films and series, such as Naked Lunch, The Killing Fields, Leaving Las Vegas, Arachnophobia, Smallville ‘, ’24’ and most recently ‘What/If’.
According to a report in the British newspaper Daily Mail on Sunday, his family released a statement on Friday for the first time since his disappearance. “We continue to hold Julian in our hearts with fond memories of him as a wonderful father, husband, explorer, lover of nature and art, and an exceptional artist,” the statement read.