British Actor, Julian Sands Missing

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Julian Sands, the British star of Oscar-nominated films including A Room With A View, has been missing for almost a week in an ‘extremely dangerous’ Californian mountain range where two hikers have died in recent weeks, it was revealed today.

Sands, 65, was reported missing by his family at around 7.30pm last Friday after disappearing during a trek in the Mount Baldy area of California’s San Gabriel Mountains – where two hikers have died in recent weeks.

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Officers attempted a ground search on Saturday for the star but had to abandon it as a storm swept in, and it has not been safe enough to send back rescue teams since.

Experts have since been using helicopters and drones to search for the actor in the mountainous area just 40 miles from the centre of Los Angeles, where the star has lived since 2020. But he has not been located.

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The actor is a father-of-three who became an international star in 1985 romantic period drama A Room with a View alongside Helena Bonham Carter. He also appeared in The Killing Fields, Arachnophobia and Leaving Las Vegas. His TV credits include 24 and Smallville.

The 65-year-old has two daughters with the journalist Evgenia Citkowitz, who he married in 1990. He has a son, Henry, with his first wife Sarah Sands, the former editor of the Sunday Telegraph, London’s Evening Standard, and BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.

The authorities have launched a separate search is also ongoing for another hiker, California resident Bob Gregory, in the Crystal Lake area of the mountain range.

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