Julian Sands: British actor's body identified after long search on mountain

Human remains recovered successful mountains successful California person been confirmed to beryllium those of British histrion Julian Sands, who went missing connected a hike successful January.

Walkers recovered the remains connected Saturday, constabulary said, and they person present been formally identified.

Sands, 65, was champion known for his roles successful the Oscar-winning movie A Room With A View and TV dramas 24 and Smallville.

His different credits included 2011's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, successful which helium appeared other Daniel Craig.

Sands disappeared connected 13 January during atrocious upwind successful the Baldy Bowl country of the San Gabriel Mountains.

Air and crushed searches were hampered arsenic California was battered by deadly storms, arsenic good arsenic icy conditions and a menace of avalanches.

Following caller searches earlier this month, constabulary said immoderate parts of the country with steep terrain and ravines were inactive inaccessible owed to "extreme alpine conditions" including much than 10ft (3m) of remaining crystal and snow.

At the extremity of January, member Nick Sands, who lives successful North Yorkshire, wherever he, Julian and their 3 different brothers grew up, said helium had already said his "goodbyes".

"I person travel to presumption with the information he's gone and for maine that's however I've dealt with it," helium said.

Born successful Otley, Yorkshire, and educated astatine Lord Wandsworth College successful Hampshire, Sands started his acting vocation with roles successful specified films arsenic the The Killing Fields.

That brought him to the attraction of manager James Ivory, who formed him, up of the likes of Rupert Everett, successful the 1985 movie adaptation of EM Forster's caller A Room With A View.

Set successful Edwardian-era England and Italy, the movie centred astir Helena Bonham Carter's quality Lucy Honeychurch and her ever-growing emotion for Sands' free-spirited George Emerson.

The film, which besides featured Dame Maggie Smith, Daniel Day-Lewis and Dame Judi Dench, was a container bureau deed and won Oscar, Bafta and Golden Globe awards. The British Film Institute has named it 1 of its apical 100 British films.

Later, Sands played the English Romantic writer Percy Bysshe Shelley successful Ken Russell's intelligence thriller Gothic, earlier moving to Hollywood.

He played the rubric relation successful the 1989 fearfulness movie Warlock and its sequel, and his different large surface credits included salient parts successful Arachnophobia, Boxing Helena and Leaving Las Vegas, arsenic good arsenic starring other Jackie Chan successful the action-comedy movie The Medallion successful 2003.

His TV roles included a Russian violent successful Kiefer Sutherland's TV play 24 successful 2006, and Superman's biologic begetter Jor-El successful Smallville successful 2009.

Friend and chap histrion John Malkovich introduced Sands to his wife, the writer Evgenia Citkowitz. The couple, who had 2 children, lived successful North Hollywood.

Sands was antecedently joined to Sarah Sands, erstwhile exertion of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, with whom helium besides had a son.