Julian Sands – a life in pictures
The British actor best known for his roles in The Killing Fields, A Room With a View and Boxing Helena has died aged 65 – we look back over his life and work
Main image: Julian Sands in ABC's Castle. Photograph: Eric McCandless/Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty ImagesTue 27 Jun 2023 16.43 EDT
Julian Sands, left, as Jon Swain with John Malkovich as Al Rockoff in The Killing Fields, 1984 Photograph: Snap Stills/Rex
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSands, right, with Helena Bonham Carter in A Room With a View, 1985 Photograph: Goldcrest Films/Allstar
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSands, left, with Brigitte Nielsen in 1989 in London as they were co-starring in the TV movie Murder on the Moon Photograph: Georges De Keerle/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSands in Arachnophobia (1990) Photograph: Buena Vista/Allstar
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSands, left, and Peter Weller in Naked Lunch, 1991 Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSands, left, with Giuliana De Sio in The Wicked, 1991 Photograph: Mondadori Portfolio/Mondadori/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSands, right, with Grace Jones at Le Palace Club in Paris in the 1990s Photograph: Foc Kan/WireImage
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSands, left, as Franz Liszt with Hugh Grant (as Frédéric Chopin) in Impromptu, 1991 Photograph: The Ronald Grant Archive
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSands, left, with Elizabeth Shue in Leaving Las Vegas, 1992 Photograph: Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSands, right, with Sherilyn Fenn in Boxing Helena, 1993 Photograph: Cinetext Collection/Sportsphoto/Allstar
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSands, right, with Asia Argento in The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Dario Argento, 1998 Photograph: Photos 12/Alamy
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSands and Saffron Burrows in The Loss Of Sexual Innocence, 1999 Photograph: Cinematic Collection/Alamy
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSands at the Cannes film festival in 2000 Photograph: Toni Anne Barson Archive/WireImage
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSands bowls at the Westfield Hollywood Ashes Australia v Britain celebrity cricket match in 2009 Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterJohn Malkovich with Sands at the Edinburgh festival fringe in 2011, at which Malkovich directed Sands in a celebration of Harold Pinter Photograph: Murdo Macleod/the Guardian
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSands in Los Angeles, California in 2018 Photograph: Dan Tuffs/the Guardian
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSands in Czech film The Painted Bird, 2019 Photograph: Dobrovsky/AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterSands in the TV show Castle Photograph: Eric McCandless/Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter(Left to right) Tacita Dean, Julian Sands and Tilda Swinton in film-maker Derek Jarman’s former studio space at Slade School of Art in London, to launch the Art Fund campaign to save Jarman’s home in 2020 Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian
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