RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA –
Actor Julian Sands, star of several Oscar-nominated films including “A Room With a View,” has been missing for five days in the mountains of Southern California, where he was hiking, authorities said Wednesday.
Sands, 65, was reported missing Friday on a trail in Baldy Mountain, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Gloria Huerta said.
Search and rescue teams were looking for Sands in the San Gabriel Mountains area, about 40 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, but had to suspend the ground search Saturday because of trail conditions and avalanche risks and have not been able to resume it since, he said. Huerta.
They are searching Sands as weather permits with helicopters and drones, and will resume the ground search when it is safe, authorities said.
The latest in a series of storms that have created dangerous mountain conditions entered Southern California on Friday and continued through the weekend. Two other tourists recently died in the area.
Representatives for Sands, an English-born actor who now lives in North Hollywood, did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment or additional details.
Sands co-starred with Helena Bonham Carter in director James Ivory’s 1985 British romance A Room with a View.
He also had starring roles in 1989’s Warlock, 1990’s Arachnophobia, 1991’s Naked Lunch, 1993’s Boxing Helena, and 1995’s Leaving Las Vegas.
Sands has worked consistently in the decades since with smaller roles in film and television.
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