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. Sands, 65, was reported missing on last
Friday on a trail on Mt Baldy, San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokeswoman
Gloria Huerta said.Search and rescue crews looked for Sands in the area of
the San Gabriel Mountains, about 40 miles northeast of downtown Los
Angeles, but had to suspend the ground search on Saturday because of trail
conditions and avalanche risks, and have not been able to resume since,
Huerta said.They are searching for Sands as weather allows with helicopters
and drones, and will resume the ground search when it’s safe, authorities
said.The latest in a series of storms that have created dangerous mountain
conditions swept into Southern California in last week. Two other hikers
have recently died in the area.Sands starred opposite Helena Bonham Carter
in the 1985 British romance from director James Ivory, A Room With a
View.He also had major roles in in 1989’s Warlock, 1990’s Arachnophobia,
1991′s Naked Lunch, 1993′s Boxing Helena, and 1995’s Leaving Las Vegas.
With a View, has been missing for five days in the Southern California
mountains, where he was hiking. Sands, 65, was reported missing on last
Friday on a trail on Mt Baldy, San Bernardino County sheriff’s spokeswoman
Gloria Huerta said.Search and rescue crews looked for Sands in the area of
the San Gabriel Mountains, about 40 miles northeast of downtown Los
Angeles, but had to suspend the ground search on Saturday because of trail
conditions and avalanche risks, and have not been able to resume since,
Huerta said.They are searching for Sands as weather allows with helicopters
and drones, and will resume the ground search when it’s safe, authorities
said.The latest in a series of storms that have created dangerous mountain
conditions swept into Southern California in last week. Two other hikers
have recently died in the area.Sands starred opposite Helena Bonham Carter
in the 1985 British romance from director James Ivory, A Room With a
View.He also had major roles in in 1989’s Warlock, 1990’s Arachnophobia,
1991′s Naked Lunch, 1993′s Boxing Helena, and 1995’s Leaving Las Vegas.
