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Julian Sands

June 2024

  • The Last Breath.

    The Last Breath review – Julian Sands’s last film is solid shark-meets-shipwreck thriller

    A group of friends are terrorised by a shark while exploring a shipwreck in an unremarkable film that marks Sands final outing onscreen

March 2024

  • ‘She’d worked 13 days in a row and Ismail tried to cancel her weekend off’ … Emma Thompson with Anthony Hopkins in Howards End.

    ‘I got you an Oscar. Why do I need to pay you?’ The secret shocking truth about Merchant Ivory

    They were the box-office titans behind sumptuous period masterpieces. Yet underneath, reveals a new warts-and-all film, they were skint, stressed, prone to blood-curdling bust-ups – and ping-ponging between lovers

December 2023

  • Julian Sands in 2004.

    The Observer's obituaries of 2023
    Julian Sands remembered by Alessandro Nivola

    The Hollywood star remembers his fellow actor, whose passions – from mountain climbing to antique rugs – made him a fascinating friend as well as a magnetic performer

July 2023

  • FILE: Actor Julian Sands Confirmed Dead<br>FILE - JUNE 27: Actor Julian Sands has been confirmed dead five month after disappearing while hiking Mount Baldy in California. He was 65. VENICE, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 03: Julian Sands attends "The Painted Bird" photocall during the 76th Venice Film Festival on September 03, 2019 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)

    Julian Sands’ cause of death undetermined due to condition of his body

  • Julian Sands in 2012

    ‘It can be chilling’: Julian Sands spoke of seeing human remains on climbs

June 2023

  • Byrne and Sands in Ken Russell’s 1986 film Gothic.

    Julian Sands had the heart of a child-man in which scorpions and bluebirds nested

    Gabriel Byrne
  • Mike Figgis and Julian Sands shooting The Loss of Sexual Innocence in 1998, credit to Clive Coote

    ‘Outrageous, magnetic and genuinely fearless’: Mike Figgis on Julian Sands

  • Charlotte Higgins

    Julian Sands in A Room With a View: the soulful heart of a brilliantly romantic film

    Charlotte Higgins
  • Peter Bradshaw

    Julian Sands: a hypnotically exotic actor full of style and extravagance

    Peter Bradshaw
  • Julian Sands – a life in pictures

  • Julian Sands obituary

  • Julian Sands confirmed dead after human remains identified

  • Julian Sands: body found in California mountains where actor disappeared

  • Search for missing actor Julian Sands scaled back

February 2023

  • John Malkovich and Julian Sands at the Edinburgh festival fringe in 2011, where Malkovich directed a play about Harold Pinter, featuring Sands.

    John Malkovich on best friend Julian Sands: ‘Jules was such a storyteller, and so, so funny’

    The actor reflects on the pair’s new film together, Seneca – On the Creation of Earthquakes, as ‘a pretty fitting tribute’ and shares memories of the ‘boy who grew up wild on the moors’
  • Julian Sands poses for a photograph at the Venice film festival

    Outcome of Julian Sands search ‘may not be what we would like’, police say

    California authorities ‘remain hopeful’ of finding British actor who was reported missing on Mount Baldy last month
  • View at summit of Mount San Antonio, (Mt. Baldy), San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, S. California, USA<br>C1MR40 View at summit of Mount San Antonio, (Mt. Baldy), San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, S. California, USA

    A mountain of trouble? The draw – and danger – of California’s Mount Baldy

    Deaths and disappearances, including actor Julian Sands, have plagued the popular spot as hikers underestimate its perils

January 2023

  • Jin Chung. The sheriff’s department launched the search after he didn’t return from a hike on Sunday.

    Rescuers find lost hiker on California mountain where Julian Sands is missing

    Jin Chung, 75, was taken to hospital with a leg injury while search continues for the actor, 65, who was reported missing 13 January
  • Julian Sands at the Venice film festival in 2019.

    Julian Sands’ brother speaks of fears actor will not be found

    Nick Sands, the brother of Julian Sands, who has been missing for 12 days in California, has said ‘I know in my heart that he has gone’
  • Julian Sands

    Family of Julian Sands thank ‘heroic’ efforts as search enters 11th day

    Statement thanks teams braving dangerous conditions around Mount Baldy in search for actor
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