According to the authorities, a dead man found in California several days ago is British actor Julian Sands. The body had been clearly identified, said the sheriff’s office in the San Bernardino district on Tuesday (local time).
“The identification process for the body discovered on June 24, 2023 at Mount Baldy has been completed,” the sheriff’s office said. The dead man was identified as “Julian Sands, 65, from North Hollywood”. “The investigation into the cause of death is ongoing,” the sheriff’s office added. Test results were still pending.
Sands left on January 13 for a trip up Mount San Antonio – also known as Mount Baldy – northeast of Los Angeles and has not returned. The actor, according to media reports, is an avid mountain hiker who crossed the Andes in the 1990s.
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.
Bad weather at the beginning of the year meant that conditions were difficult there. A search and rescue operation was unsuccessful.
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Hikers then discovered human remains on Mount San Antonio on Saturday. The body was taken to forensic medicine for identification. The actor’s brother said two weeks after the search began that he accepted Sands would not be found alive.
The actor had his big break in 1985 with the Oscar-winning novel adaptation “A Room With a View.” He is best known for the 1984 drama Killing Fields.
Sands has also appeared in numerous series, such as Dexter, Naked Lunch, The Killing Fields, Leaving Las Vegas alongside Nicolas Cage, Ocean’s 13 with George Clooney and Brad Pitt, Arachnophobia. , “Smallville”, “24” and most recently “What/If”. (dpa, AFP)