‘Warlock’ Star Julian Sands Has Passed Away at 65

Six months after going missing in the Mount Baldy wilderness outside Los Angeles, it has been confirmed today that veteran actor Julian Sands has passed away at the age of 65.

The San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department said in an official statement today, “The identification process for the body located on Mt. Baldy on June 24, 2023, has been completed and was positively identified as 65-year-old Julian Sands of North Hollywood. The manner of death is still under investigation, pending further test results.

“We would like to extend our gratitude to all the volunteers that worked tirelessly to locate Mr. Sands,” this afternoon’s statement continued.

Here in the horror world, Julian Sands is best known for playing the titular Warlock in the 1989 horror movie Warlock, reprising his role in 1993’s Warlock: The Armageddon.

Sands played Dr. James Atherton in 1990’s Arachnophobia, also starring in Gothic (1986), Naked Lunch (1991), The Turn of the Screw (1992), Witch Hunt (1994), The Phantom of the Opera (1998), Rose Red (2002), The Haunted Airman (2006), “Dexter” and “Gotham.”

The British actor amassed over 150 film and television credits throughout his acting career, also appearing in The Killing Fields, The Sun Also Rises, After Darkness, The Doctor and the Devils, A Room with a View, Vibes, Murder by Moonlight, Tale of a Vampire, Boxing Helena, Leaving Las Vegas, Timecode, Ocean’s Thirteen, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

Sands will soon be seen in Glenn Danzig’s Death Rider in the House of Vampires.

THR reports, “Julian Sands is survived by his second wife, writer Evgenia Citkowitz, whom he married in 1990, and his three children, Henry, Natalya and Imogen.”