Julian Sands
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Birthplace:
Otley, Yorkshire, England, UK
Tall, blonde, and statuesque British actor Julian Sands is equally fit appearing in elegant historical dramas as he is in cult movies and horror films. A native of Yorkshire, he has a fine bone structure, striking blonde hair, and an eloquent speaking voice. Sands studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and joined the Forum Theatre Company. He made his film debut in Derek Jarman's Broken English but stayed working in the theater until his breakthrough film performance as photographer Jon Swain in Roland Joffé's The Killing Fields. He paid his dues with some routine U.K. films (Oxford Blues, After Darkness) until he landed the role of free-spirited George Emerson in the Merchant-Ivory production A Room With a View. He entered the realm of sexualized horror films as poet Percy Shelley in Ken Russell's Gothic. This role seemed to lead straightaway to his title role in Warlock, followed by Warlock: The Armageddon. Briefly returning to historical costume dramas to portray composer Franz Liszt in James Lapine's lavish Impromptu, Sands was back to creepy, sexual thrillers like Mary Lambert's Siesta and David Cronenberg's Naked 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 drama Boxing Helena, he made a quick recovery in Paul Schrader's made-for-TV detective film Witch Hunt. Back in the U.K., he formed a close working relationship with director Mike Figgis and found roles in The Browning Version, Leaving Las Vegas, One Night Stand, The Loss of Sexual Innocence, Timecode, and Hotel. Meanwhile, he made a few films in Italy, most notably 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 shy away from middle-brow genres, Sands can be also seen as the bad guy in the Jackie Chan movie The Medallion and as the voice of Valmont on the Jackie Chan Adventures animated series.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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82% | The Painted Bird |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | Yeh Ballet |
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— | 2020 |
No Score Yet | The Garden of Evening Mists |
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— | 2019 |
57% | Crooked House |
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— | 2017 |
63% | The Persian Connection |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | Borley Rectory |
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— | 2017 |
No Score Yet | We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story |
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— | 2015 |
58% | Extraordinary Tales |
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— | 2015 |
50% | Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks |
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$74.1k | 2014 |
No Score Yet | Me |
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— | 2014 |
No Score Yet | La piste (The Trail) |
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— | 2014 |
24% | All Things To All Men |
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— | 2013 |
87% | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
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$102.6M | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Golf In The Kingdom |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Hirokin |
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— | 2011 |
No Score Yet | Beyond Sherwood Forest |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | The Good Life |
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— | 2010 |
No Score Yet | Blood and Bone |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Bollywood Hero |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Beyond Sherwood |
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— | 2009 |
No Score Yet | Stargate: The Ark of Truth |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Heidi 4 Paws |
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— | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Cat City |
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— | 2008 |
70% | Ocean's Thirteen |
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$78.9M | 2007 |
No Score Yet | Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | The Haunted Airman |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King |
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— | 2006 |
No Score Yet | Romasanta (Werewolf Hunter - Legend of Romasanta) |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Her Name is Carla |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Easy Sex |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Easy Six |
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— | 2003 |
17% | The Medallion |
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$22M | 2003 |
41% | Hotel |
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— | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Hotel |
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— | 2003 |
20% | Long Time Since |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | The Scoundrel's Wife (The Home Front) |
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— | 2002 |
50% | Gothic |
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— | 2002 |
No Score Yet | Napoleon |
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— | 2002 |
31% | Vatel |
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— | 2000 |
68% | Timecode |
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— | 2000 |
25% | The Million Dollar Hotel |
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— | 2000 |
No Score Yet | Love Me |
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— | 2000 |
17% | Mercy |
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— | 2000 |
47% | The Loss of Sexual Innocence |
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— | 1999 |
13% | Il Fantasma dell'Opera (The Phantom of the Opera) |
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— | 1998 |
32% | One Night Stand |
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— | 1997 |
No Score Yet | End of Summer |
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— | 1997 |
91% | Leaving Las Vegas |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | The Great Elephant Escape |
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— | 1995 |
No Score Yet | Witch Hunt |
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— | 1994 |
78% | The Browning Version |
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— | 1994 |
No Score Yet | Mario And The Magician (Mario Und Der Zauberer) |
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— | 1994 |
17% | Boxing Helena |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Warlock: The Armageddon |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Crazy In Love |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Tale Of A Vampire |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Grand Isle |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Husbands And Lovers (la Villa Del Venerdì) |
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— | 1991 |
69% | Naked Lunch |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | Murder by Moonlight |
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— | 1991 |
76% | Impromptu |
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— | 1991 |
53% | Warlock |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | The Turn of the Screw |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Il Sole Anche di Notte (Night Sun) (The Sun Also Shines at Night) |
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— | 1990 |
92% | Arachnophobia |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Wicked |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Black Water |
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— | 1989 |
14% | Vibes |
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— | 1988 |
17% | Siesta |
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— | 1987 |
No Score Yet | Harem |
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— | 1986 |
100% | A Room With a View |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | Romance on the Orient Express |
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— | 1985 |
0% | The Doctor and the Devils |
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— | 1985 |
No Score Yet | After Darkness |
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— | 1985 |
93% | The Killing Fields |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Oxford Blues |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | A Married Man |
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— | 1984 |
No Score Yet | Privates on Parade |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Psychotic Connections |
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— | 1980 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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72% |
Into The Dark
2018
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No Score Yet |
Medici
2016-2019
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95% |
Elementary
2012-2019
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92% |
Man in an Orange Shirt
2017
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59% |
Crossbones
2014
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88% |
Wallander
2008-2016
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92% |
Person Of Interest
2011-2016
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87% |
24
2001-2014
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82% |
Castle
2009-2016
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78% |
Smallville
2001-2011
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19% |
Lipstick Jungle
2008-2009
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No Score Yet |
Blood Ties
2007
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No Score Yet |
Ghost Whisperer
2005-2010
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No Score Yet |
Miss Marple
2004-2013
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No Score Yet |
Mystery!
1980-2007
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No Score Yet |
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-2011
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78% |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999
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57% |
The L Word
2004-2009
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41% |
Stephen King's Rose Red
2002
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No Score Yet |
Jackie Chan Adventures
2000-2005
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No Score Yet |
Napoleón
2003
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Quotes from Julian Sands' Characters
Percy Bysshe Shelley: | But perhaps something alive can be created! |
Yves Cloquet: | I've seen you around, but I had no idea you were queer' |
Yves Cloquet: | I've seen you around, but I had no idea you were queer. |
William Lee: | Yes, the Lee's have always been perverts |
William Lee: | Yes, the Lee's have always been perverts. |