RANCHO CUCAMONGA, California. – Actor Julian Sands, star of several Oscar-nominated films including ‘A Room With a View’, has been missing for five days in the Southern California mountains where he was hiking, authorities said on Wednesday.
Sands, 65, was reported missing Friday from a trail on Mt. Baldy, said San Bernardino County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Gloria Huerta.
Search and rescue crews searched 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 danger and have not been able to resume it since, Huerta said.
They are searching for Sands with helicopters and drones when weather permits and will resume ground searches when it is safe, authorities said.
The latest in a series of storms that have created dangerous mountain conditions swept through southern California on Friday and lasted all weekend. Two other hikers have recently died in the area.
Representatives for Sands, an English-born actor who now resides in North Hollywood, did not immediately respond to emails asking for comments or more details.
Sands starred alongside Helena Bonham Carter in the 1985 British romance film A Room With a View, directed by James Ivory.
He also had leading roles in 1989’s Warlock, 1990’s Arachnophobia, 1991’s Naked Lunch, 1993’s Boxing Helena and 1995’s Leaving Las Vegas.
Sands has consistently worked in smaller roles in film and television in the decades since.
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