Julian Sands: Prolific British film star named as missing hiker in California mountains - The Independent

British histrion Julian Sands has been identified arsenic the hiker who went missing successful the California mountains past week.

The 65-year-old, known for his relation successful the Oscar-nominated 1985 movie A Room with a View, has been missing successful the Mount Baldy country since Friday 13 January, according to authorities.

He was reported missing by his wife, writer Evgenia Citkowitz, connected Friday evening and was thought to person been determination connected the fashionable Baldy Bowl Trail successful the San Gabriel Mountains. Mount Baldy is simply a 10,000ft highest located northeast of Los Angeles, successful the Angeles National Forest.

Sands is simply a keen hiker and mountain-climber who erstwhile described his happiest moment arsenic “close to a upland acme connected a glorious acold morning”.

Search and rescue crews were connected the upland looking for Sands, but had to suspend the hunt due to the fact that of terrible upwind and avalanche threat, department spokesperson Gloria Huerta told CNN.

Drones person been utilized to proceed the hunt but rescuers are constricted with different resources due to the fact that of the weather.

The Independent understands that Sands’ lad Henry has joined the search, accompanied by an experienced climber. Sands shares 2 daughters, Imogen and Natalya, with his woman Citkowitz. He shares Henry with his ex-wife, writer and exertion Sarah Sands (née Harvey).

California has been deed by a drawstring of violent wintertime storms that person brought flooding and large snowfall to the drought-stricken state.

The sheriff’s section says that implicit the past 4 weeks, it has launched 14 hunt and rescue missions successful the Mount Baldy country alone, with 2 hikers dying connected the mountain.

“These rescue missions person been for lost, stranded and/or injured hikers. Unfortunately, during these past 4 weeks, 2 hikers did not past aft falling and injuring themselves,” the bureau stated connected Facebook.

“The caller storms that brought the snowfall and crystal conditions are not favourable for hikers, adjacent those that consciousness they person a precocious level of experience.”

Sands, who lives successful northbound Hollywood with Citkowitz, has appeared successful much than 150 movies and tv shows during his career.

Born successful Yorkshire, England, helium moved to California successful the Eighties to prosecute a Hollywood career, pursuing the occurrence of the James Ivory-directed A Room with a View, the 1985 romance adapted from E M Forster’s 1908 novel.

Sands, who had received attraction for his aboriginal show successful the 1984 movie The Killing Fields, was formed arsenic pb George Emerson other Helena Bonham Carter’s Lucy Honeychurch. The movie besides starred Maggie Smith, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench and Simon Callow successful supporting roles.

A box-office success, A Room with a View received captious praise upon its merchandise and was nominated for 8 Oscars astatine the 59th Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Sands’ vocation aft A Room with a View has been an eclectic one, comprising horror, indie, romance, and action-comedy. He played the rubric relation other Richard E Grant and Lori Singer successful supernatural fearfulness Warlock, reprising the relation for sequel Warlock: The Armageddon.

He played composer Franz Liszt successful Impromptu in 1991, with Hugh Grant starring arsenic Frederic Chopin and Judy Davis arsenic George Sand.

More recently, helium appeared with James Bond prima Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara successful the Oscar-nominated English-language mentation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, in 2011.

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