Julian Sands played in 23 movies in the Drama, History, War, Music, Horror, Comedy, Romance, Mystery, Thriller, Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Biography, Crime, Adventure genres.
Julian Sands got succeed with average imdb rating 5.9.
Tall, blonde, and dignified British actor Julian Sands is equally eruption appearing in plush documented dramas as he is in cult movies and fright films. A native of Yorkshire, he has a mulct bone form, magnificent blonde whisker, and an striking speaking utterance. Sands studied at the Cardinal School of Fa‡on de parler and Drama in London and joined the Forum Theatre Callers.
He made his mistiness debut in Derek Jarman's Broken English but stayed working in the theater until
... his breakthrough film performance as photographer Jon Swain in Roland Joff??'s The Killing Fields. He paid his dues with some routine U.K. films (Oxford Blues, After Darkness) until he landed the character of enfranchise-spirited George Emerson in the Merchant-Ivory production A Stay With a View. He entered the duchy of sexualized horror films as minstrel Percy Shelley in Ken Russell's Gothic. This role seemed to introduce straightaway to his ownership role in Warlock, followed at hand Warlock: The Armageddon. Concisely returning to reliable uniform dramas to role of composer Franz Liszt in James Lapine's lavish Impromptu, Sands was back to creepy, sexual thrillers Mary Lambert's Siesta and David Cronenberg's Sheer Lunch. He also found time to play a few doctors in the Cyndi Lauper movie Vibes and in Steven Spielberg's Arachnophobia.
After playing the sexually submissive surgeon in the critically dismissed Thespian Boxing Helena, he made a quick gain in Paul Schrader's made-to-TV detective film Witch Pry into. In serious trouble in the U.K., he formed a close working relationship with kingpin Mike Figgis and build roles in The Browning Translation, Leaving Las Vegas, Ditty Night Stay, The Disadvantage of Sexual Innocence, Timecode, and Inn.
Meanwhile, he made a few films in Italy, most outstandingly as the Phantom in Dario Argento's The Phantom of the Opera. In 2002, he was cast in the epic miniseries Rose Red and Napoleon. Not one to suspicious away from mid-point-brow genres, Sands can be also seen as the miserable gazabo in the Jackie Chan silent picture The Medallion and as the present of Valmont on the Jackie Chan Adventures moving series.
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