Julian Sands, a British actor who was best known for his portrayal of free-spirited passion in the Edwardian period piece “A Room With a View,” was found dead more than five months after he went missing while hiking. He would have been 65.
on Jan. 13. Rescue teams undertook a ground search, which was soon suspended because of weather and the threat of avalanches. They continued surveilling the area by helicopter and drone.human remains in the area where Mr. Sands had gone missing. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department announced on June 27 that the remains had been positively identified as those of Mr. Sands and that the manner of death is still under investigation, pending further test results.Mr.
, Mr. Sands said he heard from fans, was “more of a turn-on for some people than an explicit sex scene could ever have been.”he didn’t wish to become “a Hollywood actor.”“I was looking for something exotic, things that took me out of myself,” he told the Guardian. “I think I found myself a little boring.”
He ventured into the experimental with his appearance in “Siesta” , about an American skydiver who awakens on the grass of an airport runway to find herself mysteriously dropped in Spain., that drove Kim Basinger and Madonna from the cast — Mr. Sands played a surgeon who amputates the arms and legs of a woman who is the object of his desire.
later, referring to the fear of spiders. “Although my nerves were challenged in the death scene, when I had to have about 200 of these small, little spiders on my face. … It was all real, no CGI. … Yeah. That was a memory.”He said he found no conflict between the two poles of his work, the high brow and the low.
Mr. Sands’s father conducted agricultural soil surveys, and his mother, a secretary at a garage, was an amateur actress. Mr. Sands was still a child when she took him to see Laurence Olivier in a production of Shakespeare’s “Richard III,” sparking his interest in acting.Mr. Sands studied at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London before embarking on his career.
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