British actor Julian Sands, who vanished while out hiking in January, has been positively identified from human remains discovered in California mountains.
The remains were discovered on Saturday by walkers, according to police, and have since been officially identified.
Sands, 65, was best known for his work in the TV dramas Smallville and 24, as well as the Oscar-winning film A Room With A View.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), in which he costarred with Daniel Craig, was one of his other acting roles.
On January 13th, sands vanished during bad weather in the Baldy Bowl region of the San Gabriel Mountains.
California was being pummeled by deadly storms, icy conditions, and an avalanche threat, which made air and ground searches difficult.
Police reported that some areas of the region with steep terrain and ravines were still inaccessible due to "extreme alpine conditions," including more than 10ft (3m) of remaining ice and snow, earlier this month after conducting new searches.
Sands' family expressed gratitude to the Californian authorities for their efforts in trying to find him after the star went missing.
Nick Sands, who resides in North Yorkshire and grew up there with Julian and their three other brothers, stated at the end of January that he had already said his "goodbyes.".
"I have accepted the fact that he is no longer with us, and for me, that is how I have dealt with it," he said.
Born in Otley, Yorkshire, and educated at Lord Wandsworth College in Hampshire, Sands began his acting career with parts in movies like The Killing Fields.
James Ivory, who directed the 1985 film adaptation of EM Forster's novel A Room With a View, saw him as a result and cast him instead of actors like Rupert Everett.
The movie, which was based in Edwardian-era Italy and England, centered on Lucy Honeychurch, played by Helena Bonham Carter, and her growing affection for George Emerson, played by Daniel Sands.
The movie, which also starred Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, and Daniel Day-Lewis, was a box office success and took home Oscar, Bafta, and Golden Globe awards. It was ranked among the top 100 British movies by the British Film Institute.
Before relocating to Hollywood, Sands first appeared in Gothic, a psychological thriller directed by Ken Russell, where he played English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
His other notable roles on the big screen were in Arachnophobia, Boxing Helena, Leaving Las Vegas, and he co-starred with Jackie Chan in the action-comedy movie The Medallion in 2003. He played the title role in the 1989 horror film Warlock and its sequel.
He played a Russian terrorist in the Kiefer Sutherland TV drama 24 in 2006, and he played Jor-El, Superman's biological father, in the Smallville TV series in 2009.
Sands met his wife, author Evgenia Citkowitz, through friend and fellow actor John Malkovich. The two-parent family resided in North Hollywood.
Prior to his current marriage, Sands was married to Sarah Sands, a former editor of the Today program on BBC Radio 4. They had a son together.
