British actor Julian Sands was reported missing after hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains on Friday, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.

The 65-year-old actor, known for his roles in A room with a viewThe Killing Fields and Naked Lunch, lives in North Hollywood.

Rescue teams have been searching for a lost hiker in the Baldy Bowl area of ​​Mount Baldy, a popular area for hikers and skiers, since a hiker was reported missing at 7 p.m. Friday evening, the spokesperson said. from the sheriff’s department, Nathan Campos. Officials identified the lost hiker by name Wednesday afternoon.

The rigors of winter through California interfered with the search around Mount Baldy: Ground rescue teams were “withdrawn from the mount on Saturday evening for their safety”, with the search continuing “by drone and helicopter when weather permitted”, Campos said.

There is a serious avalanche hazard in the area and authorities are advising the public to stay away from the area. “It’s extremely dangerous and experienced hikers have a hard time getting there,” Campos said. As the weather clears up, rescue teams plan to resume ground searches, he said.

Authorities are also looking for another missing hiker, Bob Gregory of Hawthorne, Calif., who was reported missing Monday in the San Gabriel Mountains, ABC News reported.

Sands, who grew up in Yorkshire, had a multi-decade eclectic career in the film industry, appearing in dozens of film and television roles, and has lived in the Los Angeles area for years with his wife, writer Evgenia Citkowitz. He has three children. In a 2018 interview with the Guardian, Sands opened up about her fixation with mountain climbing and the importance of continuing to experience new adventures as you age. In other interview 2020he described himself as being at his happiest “near a mountaintop on a glorious cold morning”.

According to Sands in 2020, the closest to his death was “in the early 90s, in the Andes, caught in an excruciating storm above 20,000 feet with three others. We were all in very bad shape. Guys close to us have perished; we were lucky.