The search for missing English actor Julian Sands continues, more than five months after he disappeared during a walk.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department issued a press release on Monday announcing an ongoing search Saturday in the Mount Baldy wilderness area for the 65-year-old actor who went missing while on a snow hike in January.
The search involved more than 80 search and rescue volunteers, deputies and staff, but Sands was not located, the release said.
Two helicopters and drone crews also supported the search.
Search teams were deployed from aviation sources over Mount Baldy and drone crews searched areas inaccessible to ground crews.
Ongoing search: The search for missing English actor Julian Sands, screened in March 2022 in Beverly Hills, California, has continued more than five months after his disappearance on a walk
The sheriff’s department has conducted eight ground and air searches since January in a search for Sands with volunteers searching for more than 500 hours.
Despite the recent warmer weather, parts of the mountain remain inaccessible due to extreme mountain conditions. Multiple areas include steep terrain and canyons, which still have more than 10 feet of ice and snow,” the release said.
The actor’s missing person case remains active and search efforts will continue to a limited extent.
The Sheriff’s Department also shared videos on Twitter Monday of volunteers flying helicopters on Saturday as part of the search for Sands.
Known for his roles in Oscar-nominated films, including 1985’s A Room With A View, Sands was reported missing by his family on Jan. 13 after disappearing while hiking in the Mount Baldy area of the San Gabriel Mountains in California.
A car believed to belong to the Killing Fields star has been found near Mount Baldy, considered one of the most dangerous climbs in the US.
The father of three, an avid outdoorsman who has climbed mountains around the world, starred in the 1985 period drama A Room with a View alongside Helena Bonham Carter, and also appeared in The Killing Fields, Arachnophobia, and Leaving Las Vegas. His TV credits include 24 and superhero show Smallville.
Sands has two daughters with American journalist Evgenia Citkowitz, whom he married in 1990, and a son, Henry, with his first wife Sarah Sands, the former editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
His brother Nick said in January that he still hoped his brother would prove his growing fears wrong and make it home alive.
Search helicopter: The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department issued a press release on Monday announcing that continued searches were being conducted in the Mount Baldy wilderness area on Saturday
Long-term couple: Sands has two daughters with American journalist Evgenia Citkowitz, shown in November 2015 in Los Angeles, whom he married in 1990
Hit movie: Sands is featured alongside Helena Bonham Carter in the 1985 historical drama A Room with a View
Sands was born in 1958 in Yorkshire, Northern England to mother Brenda who raised him and his four brothers alone after her divorce.
He was privately educated at Lord Wandsworth College, a boarding school in rural Hampshire, before making the leap into acting.
The star initially landed small roles, co-starring with Anthony Hopkins in the 1983 TV movie A Married Man and appearing in Privates on Parade, about a military entertainment group in Malaysia in the late 1940s.
His first major production was 1984’s The Killing Fields, the critically acclaimed historical drama about the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Sands played the role of journalist Jon Swain in the three-time Oscar-winning film.
But the following year it was his turn in the adaptation of the classic EM Forster novel A Room With A View that propelled Sands to stardom.
Playing the philosophical and free-thinking George Emerson, he falls in love with Helena Bonham Carter’s Lucy Honeychurch with a Florentine pensioner in the classic historical drama.
The pair locked lips in a poppy field in what is considered to be one of the most romantic kisses of all time on screen.
Social media: The Sheriff’s Department also shared videos on Twitter of volunteers flying helicopters on Saturday as part of the search for Sands
Multiple searches: The Sheriff’s Department has conducted eight ground and air searches since January in a search for Sands with volunteers searching for more than 500 hours
English actor: Screened in September 2019 in Italy, Sands was born in 1958 in Yorkshire, Northern England, to mother Brenda who raised him and his four brothers alone after her divorce
However, Bonham Carter later revealed that the moment was impromptu as they failed to find cornflowers for the scene.
She recalled, “Because of the sunset, we had waited days, I think, if I remember correctly, to try and get this kiss, it had to be at the magic moment, whatever that means.” And suddenly it was like, ‘Okay, you’re busy, just do the kiss. Julian, you stand there; Helena, just walk!’
“It’s very hard to walk across a plowed field in high heels, and oh my God, it was hard work. I just knew I had to get to him without falling.
And then don’t laugh when he kisses me. And it’s really hard to kiss someone when you’re only eighteen and you haven’t done it that often. So it was hard, that was hard.’
The three-time Oscar-winning production featured a host of British acting greats, including Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Simon Callow and Denholm Elliott.