British actor Julian Sands reported lacking in California mountains

AFP

British-born movie actor Julian Sands, recognized for his starring roles in such movies as “A Room with a View” and “Warlock,” has gone lacking within the mountains of Southern California, media retailers reported.

The 65-year-old performer was reported lacking by his spouse on Friday night, January 13, after he had gone mountain climbing within the Baldy Bowl space of the San Gabriel Mountains, in accordance with Los Angeles tv station KABC-TV and the Hollywood commerce publication Variety.

“From what I understand, he left sometime that day for a hike and when he did not return, his family reported him missing,” KABC-TV quoted Gloria Huerta, a spokesperson for the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department, as telling the news outlet.

Ground groups instantly launched a seek for the actor however the effort was known as off about 24 hours later resulting from avalanche dangers and poor path situations, in accordance with Variety, which additionally cited the sheriff’s division.

Intermittent aerial searches by helicopter and drone plane have continued, nonetheless, and authorities deliberate to renew a floor search as soon as situations enable, Variety stated.

The Baldy Bowl, about 50 miles northeast of Los Angeles just under the Mount Baldy ski space, is a well-liked vacation spot for skiers, climbers and hikers.

But the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department issued an advisory on Thursday warning that extreme winter climate, following weeks of storms that dumped torrential rain and heavy snow throughout California, has made the world harmful for outside recreation.

Over the previous 4 weeks, the sheriff’s search groups have been dispatched on 14 rescue missions on Mount Baldy and surrounding areas for misplaced or stranded hikers, two of whom perished after falling or injuring themselves, the advisory stated.

The sheriff’s division, which made no point out of the actor in its advisory, didn’t instantly reply to Reuters’ request for additional info. Sands’ Los Angeles-based consultant couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.

Born in England, Sands moved to California within the Nineteen Eighties to pursue a Hollywood profession after the success of the 1985 movie A Room with a View, a interval romance wherein he was forged because the main man reverse Helena Bonham Carter.

He additionally starred because the son of Satan within the 1989 supernatural thriller Warlock and its sequel Warlock: The Armageddon. Other movie credit embody supporting roles in The Killing Fields, Arachnophobia and Leaving Las Vegas.