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The actor went missing on Friday.
The actor went missing on Friday in California (Picture: Getty Images)
British actor Julian Sands has been reported missing while hiking in the San Gabriel mountains in America.
The missing actor is thought to have been somewhere in the popular Baldy Bowl area of the California mountain range when he went missing on Friday.
The 65-year-old was reported missing by his wife Eugenia Citkowitz at 7.30pm when he didn’t return home from a hike.
Rescue teams ‘responded and began a search’ before they were forced to stop over the weekend because of severe weather and an avalanche threat.
In a statement shared with the PA news agency, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s department said: ‘Because of avalanche risks and trail conditions, the ground crews were pulled off the mountain on Saturday evening.
‘However, we continue to search by helicopter and drones when weather permits. We will schedule another ground search when the weather improves, and it is safe for our ground crews.’
Evgenia Citkowitz and Julian have been married for over 30 years (Picture: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for LACMA)
What films and TV shows has Julian Sands starred in?
Julian Sands is a British actor, most famous for his roles in film and TV shows such as A Room With A View, 24, and Smallville.
Sands was born in Otley, West Yorkshire, and quickly became a successful actor in his 20s when he won a best supporting actor Bafta for his performance in A Room with a View, where he acted alongside Helena Bonham Carter.
In the early 1990s Sands ventured into Hollywood in films such as Warlock and 1990 comedy horror film Arachnophobia, in which he starred alongside Jeff Daniels and John Goodman as the entomologist Dr James Atherton.
He went on to win a Golden Globe for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas, which he starred in alongside Nicolas Cage.
The actor’s TV successes include 24 and Smallville, and over his career his net worth is thought to have grown to around $3million (£2.4million).
He most recently appeared in the World War I drama film Benediction, alongside Peter Capaldi and Jack Lowden.
Julian Sands’ big break was in A Room With A View in which he starred alongside Helena Bonham Carter (Picture: Merchant Ivory/Goldcrest/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)
Julian won a Bafta for his work in A Room With A View (Picture: Merchant Ivory/Goldcrest/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock)
He and his wife Eugenia, a journalist, got married in 1990 and share two children; 23-year-old Imogen and 26-year-old Natalya.
The Killing Fields actor also had a son, Henry, 37, with his first wife Sarah Harvey, who is a former editor of the Sunday Telegraph, London’s Evening Standard, and BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
The pair were only married for three years in the 1980s, a time when Sands’ career was kicking off.
Sands has lived in Los Angeles since 2020 and has often shared his adoration of his ‘wonderful outdoor lifestyle’. He is a keen hiker and has trekked all over the world.
In a Guardian interview in 2020, the actor said he was happiest when ‘close to a mountain summit on a glorious cold morning’ and his biggest fear was ‘inactivity, immobility, ill health and boredom’.
Sands also revealed that ‘climbing a remote peak in the high Himalayas, such as Makalu’ was top of his bucket list.
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The actor had a scary experience in the early 90s, where he got ‘caught in an atrocious storm above 20,000ft’ and described being in a ‘very bad way’ with three others.
‘Some guy close to us perished; we were lucky,’ he said.
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