On June 27, local time, the San Bernardino County Police Department in Los Angeles officially announced that the male skeleton found in the Bald Mountain area of the county last Saturday was confirmed to be the long-lost British actor Julian Sands (Julian Sanders). Sands), but the exact cause and date of his death may remain a mystery forever.

Julian Sanders

On January 13 this year, just over a week after Julian Sanders celebrated his 65th birthday, he, who has always been keen on mountaineering, once again went hiking in the Bald Mountain area in the northeast of Los Angeles, but he did not return for a long time. And the phone lost connection. His family quickly called the police, but it was the middle of winter and the ensuing snowstorms made it difficult for search and rescue teams to take immediate action. On January 18, they found Sanders' four-wheel drive parked at the foot of the mountain, and the tracking and positioning information left by his mobile phone also stayed on January 15, and then it was estimated that the power was exhausted.

Young Julian Sanders

Bald Mountain is part of the San Antonio Mountains in Los Angeles and belongs to the San Gabriel Mountains. It is named Bald Mountain because its top is not a pinnacle but a flat land. Although the terrain on the top of the mountain is gentle, the road to climb the 3,000-meter peak is long and dangerous. From December last year to January this year alone, at least 20 climbers encountered danger in the Bald Mountain area, and at least three of them, including Julian Sanders, died unfortunately. One of them was a middle-aged female climber who was well-known in the American mountaineering circle. She accidentally fell from a height of more than 150 meters into the mountain and was seriously injured. In the end, the hospital was delayed due to bad weather conditions and died.

For the same reason, due to the extreme cold conditions and the potential for avalanches, the search and rescue work for Julian Sanders was slow, and neither the air search nor the ground search could be carried out in time. By January 25, representatives of his family had made it clear that they no longer had much hope for his survival. In fact, the search and rescue work of the local police did not officially resume until the middle of this month, but the remains were discovered last Saturday by a group of hikers who went hiking in the mountains after the weather got warmer.

Sanders (left) and Malkovich in "The Killing Fields"

Julian Sands was born in Yorkshire, England on January 4, 1958. After graduating from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London in the late 1970s, he officially entered the filming industry. In the war film "The Killing Fields," which was nominated for seven Oscars, he played a war photographer and had many scenes opposite American actor John Malkovich, who was four years his senior. The two became close friends, and even after Sanders divorced his first wife, he took his son and lived in Malkovich's house temporarily; later, it was Malkovich who introduced him second wife.

Stills of "A Room with a View"

In 1985, Julian Sanders was favored by the great director James Ivory. In the film of the same name based on the novel "A Room with a View" by EM Foster, Julian Sands played the leading male George, giving the world The audience is impressed. Soon, he received an invitation from Hollywood and moved his family to the United States. In those years, he appeared in various types of Hollywood productions such as "Rules of the Harem", "The Last Rose of Summer", "Speedman" and "Little Devil", either starring or supporting roles, but not counting What a big production.

Stills of "Rules of the Harem"

At the end of the 1980s, Julian Sanders returned to the UK and played the pianist Liszt in the star-studded "Spring Sonata", and played the male lead in "Midnight Sun" by the famous Italian directors Taviani Brothers , all have eye-catching performances, which also proves that compared to Hollywood commercial films, perhaps European literary films are more suitable for him with blond hair and a hint of evil spirit.

Sanders (left) plays pianist Liszt in "Spring Sonata"

Later, Sanders starred in Canadian director David Cronenberg's "Naked Lunch", David Lynch's daughter Jennifer Lynch's heterochromatic film "Beauty in a Box" and Italian horror film director Dar Leo Argento's "Phantom Opera", and Chinese audiences are probably most familiar with his role as the mastermind of the international snake group "Snake Demon" in Jackie Chan's "Dragon Rebirth".

In addition to the big screen, Julian Sanders has also made guest appearances in American dramas such as "The L Word", "Ghost Whisperer" and "Smallville". The most brilliant performance was in the fifth season of "24 Hours". Villain terrorist Vladimir.

In life, Julian Sanders' greatest hobby is mountaineering. He is almost fanatical, so much so that he does not call the home where he and his family have lived for decades in his daily life, but calls it "my mountaineering base camp." . A few years ago, he said in an interview with the media that for him, the greatest joy in life is "going to the top of the mountain on a cold morning". The thing he can't bear the most is "the unchanging and lifeless life".

Of course, after decades of mountaineering, he has not encountered danger. During a certain climb in the Andes in the 1990s, he encountered a snowstorm at a height of 6,000 meters and nearly died, but this did not change Sanders' original intention to continue climbing. In an interview with the British "Guardian" in 2020, he also said that the first thing on his "bucket list" is to be able to climb the 8,463-meter Makalu in the Himalayas.

In February this year, "Seneca" starring Julian Sands held its world premiere at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival. He played the role of Rufus, a politician in ancient Rome, in the film. The lead actor is none other than his best friend John Malkovich, whom he has known for forty years. The two were supposed to come to Berlin together to attend the press conference of "Seneca", but they were separated forever.