Biography
Julian Sands, a renowned British actor, was born on January 4, 1958, in Otley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. He had a successful career in film, television, and stage, gaining recognition for his roles in various British films during the 1980s. Sands' breakthrough came with his captivating performance in the movie "A Room with a View" (1985), directed by James Ivory. This period drama not only showcased his acting skills but also earned him widespread acclaim. Following this success, Sands ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Last Breath
2024
as Levi
A group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside...

Body Odyssey
2023
as Kurt
Mona, a bodybuilder, looks like a woman obsessed by an unshapely ideal. The body is her inseparable container, her most faithful ally, her partner res...

The Piper
2023
as Gustafson
When a composer must finish her late mentor's concerto, she discovers that playing its music summons deadly consequences.

The Darkside of Society
2023
as Self
It’s one of the most controversial, influential and groundbreaking horror satires of the 1980s. Brian Yuzna’s SOCIETY told a terrifying, surreal story...

Double Soul
2023
as Orlandi
Twins, identical in appearance but different in soul. A double female point of view, narrated between Italy and the Middle East, between the affirmati...

Seneca
2023
as Rufus
Rome in 65 AD, Emperor Nero's tyrannical regime has reached its zenith, Nero's self-indulgence and excessiveness brings up the opposition against him,...

The Ghosts of Monday
2022
as Bruce
A group of US filmmakers travel to Cyprus to film a documentary in the tragically famous Hotel Gula - a once popular resort where more than 100 people...

Benediction
2021
as Chief Medical Officer
Poet Siegfried Sassoon survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but became a vocal critic of the gov...

The Survivalist
2021
as Heath
A year and a half after the fall of civilization from a virus outbreak, a former FBI agent is forced to protect a young woman, who is immune to the di...

The Ghosts of Borley Rectory
2021
as Lionel Foyster
Harry Price investigates the ghosts of Borley Rectory during his stay there.

Death Rider in the House of Vampires
2021
as Count Holliday
In the Wild West, the mysterious Death Rider enters a dangerous Vampire Sanctuary where the price of admission is a one female virgin.

Bobbleheads: The Movie
2020
as Purrbles McCat (voice)
Get ready for a big shake-up when misfit bobbleheads take on trashy humans and a slobbery dog who crash their home with plans to swap a new baseball p...

11 Colours of the Bird
2020
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the eleven-year process it took to make The Painted Bird. The narratives of director Václav Marhoul and actor Petr Kotlár ...

Yeh Ballet
2020
as Saul Aaron
Discovered by an eccentric ballet master, two gifted but underprivileged Mumbai teens face bigotry and disapproval as they pursue their dancing dreams...

A Nasty Piece of Work
2019
as Steven Essex
A mid-level corporate employee finds out he’s not getting the Christmas bonus he was expecting, but his boss invites him to earn a promotion by beatin...

The Garden of Evening Mists
2019
as 1980s Frederik Gemmell
A woman seeking a quiet life in post-World War II British Malaya finds love and a common interest in gardening with a mysterious Japanese man.

The Painted Bird
2019
as Garbos
After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.

Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm
2019
as King Jason (voice)
A young orphan bear named Bongee befriends Princess Katrina. When the witch Bandrilla casts a spell on the people of the Kingdom preventing them from ...

The Keeper
2018
as Tilson, Man City President
The story of a man whose love for football, for England and for the love of his life, Margaret, saw him rise from Nazi 'villain' to British hero. Bert...

Walk Like a Panther
2018
as Tony ‘Sweet Cheeks’ Smith
A group of 1980s wrestlers are forced to don the lycra once last time when their beloved local pub is threatened with closure.

Toy Gun
2018
as Officer Jonta
Ruggero, a meek young man, impulsively robs a bank to prove to his ex-wife that he is courageous and masculine. A police investigation engulfs everyon...

Crooked House
2017
as Philip Leonides
A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncrat...

Borley Rectory
2017
as Narrator (voice)
An animated documentary chronicling famed paranormal investigator Harry Price’s research at Borley Rectory, renowned as the ‘most haunted house in Eng...

The Escape
2017
as Lambert
A man is offered the chance to escape to his perfect dream world - all he has to do is hand over everything he owns. Will he really abandon his family...

The Chosen
2016
as Kotov
Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret m...

The Loner
2016
as Evgeny
Haunted by memories as a child soldier in 1980s Iran, Behrouz finds himself in bustling, neon-soaked Los Angeles, working to become a real estate agen...

We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story
2015
as John Le Mesurier
Comedy drama about the beginnings of Jimmy Perry and David Croft's writing partnership and their struggles to get Dad's Army on the screen in 1968.

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
2014
as Winslow Cunard
A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per week for six weeks. What begins as an antagonistic r...

Me
2014
as Sam Citkowitz
A down and out actress secretly sells a reality show about her friend, a delusional eccentric, a once famous creator of reality shows, who now believe...

GHB: To Be or Not to Be
2014
as Le client
A reflection on love and pleasure experienced by three women, set in France, New York, and Shanghai.

Castle Chronicle
2014
as Anthony
Dramatized series that shows a mosaic of stories, which run in parallel and sometimes intertwine, around Tepito and its identity as a neighborhood, re...

Cesar Chavez
2014
as Victore Representative
A biography of the civil-rights activist and labor organizer Cesar Chavez. Chronicling the birth of a modern American labour movement, Cesar Chavez t...

All Things To All Men
2013
as Cutter
A thief is caught up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a maverick cop and London crime boss.

Extraordinary Tales
2013
as Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar')
Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.

The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars
2012
as Mark
Matteo and Sonia meet in a hospital on the eve of their respective open heart surgeries. They share a common passion for mountaineering and make a vow...

Suspension of Disbelief
2012
as Hackett
Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in the Thames and no one really knows, what has happe...

Hirokin: The Last Samurai
2012
as Griffin
In a planet where humans must scavenge the post-apocalyptic barren wasteland, Hirokin – a reluctant warrior with a dark past – sets off on mission to ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
as Young Henrik Vanger
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tatto...

Golf in the Kingdom
2011
as Peter McNaughton
In 1956, American philosophy student Michael Murphy is on his way to an ashram in India when he stops off in Scotland for one last game of golf. He me...

The Maiden and the Princess
2011
as Bernard
During a game of catch-the-boy-and-kiss-him, Emmy, a precocious ten-year-old, kisses another little girl, Alice.

The Good Life
2010
as Robert
A romantic mood is unexpectedly ruined when Robert - a fastidious man of the near-future - dines with his lover Melissa.

Beyond Sherwood Forest
2009
as Malcolm
King Richard is away fighting the Crusade, his brother Prince John has been left in charge. In order to further international diplomatic relations wit...

Blood and Bone
2009
as Franklin McVeigh
In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.

Heidi 4 Paws
2008
as Peter the Goatherder
"Heidi 4 Paws" is a live-action re-telling of Johanna Spyri's 1880 children's classic, "HEIDI", but with fully mouth-articulated dogs in all of the ro...

Cat City
2008
as Nick Compton
A tale of infidelity, deceit, greed, and murder. Nick Compton, a Palm Springs real estate developer...

Stargate: The Ark of Truth
2008
as Doci
SG-1 searches for an ancient weapon which could help them defeat the Ori, and discover it may be in the Ori's own home galaxy. As the Ori prepare to s...

Ocean's Thirteen
2007
as Greco Montgomery
Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tish...

The Haunted Airman
2006
as Dr. Hal Burns
An injured RAF pilot, confined to a wheelchair is committed to an eerie hospital where he starts to lose his mind.

The Trail
2006
as Gary
After her mothers death, Grace, 14, decides to go back to Africa to find her father whom she hasn't seen since her parents divorced. After his plane c...

Her Name Is Carla
2005
as Bill
Two strangers refuse to leave the seaside home of a couple, which leads to sexual tension and crime.

Kenneth Tynan: In Praise of Hardcore
2005
as Laurence Olivier
In 1963, flamboyant, eccentric English theatre critic Kenneth Tynan is made 'literary manager' of London's National Theatre. His views on censorship (...

Ring of the Nibelungs
2004
as Hagen
In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried after two malevolent kings murder his father. But a...

Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt
2004
as Manuel Romasanta
A terror is stalking the land: people are disappearing daily, their bodies appearing covered in savage gashes coupled with precise surgical cuts. The ...

Easy Sex
2003
as Packard Schmidt
Packard Schmidt is a burnt-out, middle-aged college English professor. In a desperate attempt to restore some sense of vitality to his lonely existenc...

The Medallion
2003
as Snakehead
A Hong Kong detective suffers a fatal accident involving a mysterious medallion and is transformed into an immortal warrior with superhuman powers.

The Scoundrel's Wife
2002
as Doctor Lenz
Already an outcast for crimes she did not commit, a woman struggling to raise her two children in a small village during World War II is suspected of ...

Hotel
2001
as Tour Guide
A sex worker, a hired killer, and a movie crew cross paths in a Venice hotel where human meat is on the menu.

Vatel
2000
as Louis XIV
In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants ...

Timecode
2000
as Quentin
A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tries to manipulate her filmmaker boyfriend, Alex, i...

Love Me
2000
as The sailor
Laetita Masson directs this hallucinatory dream-like work about dancing on the beach, Elvis impersonators, and sailors longing to live and work in Tai...

Mercy
2000
as Dr. Dominik Broussard
Detective Catherine Palmer is on the trail of an elusive serial killer. During her investigation she meets Vickie Kittrie, who belongs to an exclusive...

The Million Dollar Hotel
2000
as Terence Scopey
A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.

The Loss of Sexual Innocence
1999
as Adult Nic
The story of the sexual development of a filmmaker through three stages of his life.

The Phantom of the Opera
1998
as The Phantom
A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leave a bloody trail into the subterranean caverns of an Opera house. Below the theatre stalks a m...

Long Time Since
1998
as Michael James
A beautiful woman has spent a lifetime obsessing about a hit-and-run she caused years ago. She knows she struck something, but left the scene before d...

One Night Stand
1997
as Nurse Chris
In Los Angeles, Max Carlyle makes a good living directing commercials and has a happy home life with his wife, Mimi, and two children. When Carlyle tr...

Never Ever
1997
as Roderick
Thomas Murray and Amanda have just moved to Paris. He works for a bank owned by Amanda's father Arthur Trevane. Amanda decides that she does not like ...

End of Summer
1997
as Rev. Basil March
An unmarried aristocrat (Jacqueline Bisset) resists the advances of the adventurous man (Peter Weller) whom she actually desires, causing him to turn ...

The Tomorrow Man
1996
as Ken
The android Kent is programmed to travel back in time and save humanity from its future. His way leads to earth, which is going to be destroyed by a g...

Leaving Las Vegas
1995
as Yuri
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There,...

The Great Elephant Escape
1995
as Clive Potter
Two young boys help an elephant escape from an African animal orphanage when he is bought by a wealthy American. The trio dodge poachers, the police a...

Legends in Light: The Photography of George Hurrell
1995
as Self
The life and career of legendary Hollywood glamour portrait photographer George Hurrell is profiled by his contemporaries including other photographer...
America
1995
as Padre Tiziano

Mario and the Magician
1994
as Professor Fuhrmann
The Twenties: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmann's have to re...

Witch Hunt
1994
as Finn Macha
Magic and murder connect an actress, a private eye, a senator and a witch in 1950s Hollywood.

The Browning Version
1994
as Tom Gilbert
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being...

Warlock: The Armageddon
1993
as Warlock
Every six hundred years, a great evil has the opportunity to escape and unleash Armageddon. A group of five stones has the power to either free the ev...

Boxing Helena
1993
as Dr. Nick Cavanaugh
A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once rebuffed him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that t...

Tale of a Vampire
1993
as Alex
Condemned to life without end, and to an undying passion for a lost love he can never find, a vampire stalks a beautiful young woman.

Crazy in Love
1992
as Mark Constable
Three generations of women live on a small island off the coast of Washington state with their men with whom they have no end of problems.

The Turn of the Screw
1992
as Mr. Cooper
A young woman is hired by a wealthy but sinister man to tutor his two children at the family's isolated estate. When the woman gets there, she finds t...

Naked Lunch
1991
as Yves Cloquet
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meetin...

The Wicked
1991
as Gustav
At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient, a young Italian woman who has mysteriously devel...

Husbands and Lovers
1991
as Stefan
Stefan finds that he can no longer tolerate the arrangement of his cheating wife ... he, the husband, gets her during the week and her lover gets her ...

Grand Isle
1991
as Alcee Arobin
A married woman in 1890s Louisiana meets a handsome Creole, reawakening her sexual desires, and is tempted into an affair with the man.

The Linguini Incident
1991
Thanks
A waitress, a barman and an underwear designer try to rob the New York restaurant where two of them work.

Impromptu
1991
as Franz Liszt
In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.

Arachnophobia
1990
as Dr. James Atherton
A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider...

Night Sun
1990
as Sergio Giuramondo
Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel, Father Sergius, Night Sun stars Julian Sands as Sergio, a nobleman in 18th-century Italy who is expected to marry a duch...

Tennessee Nights
1989
as Wolfgang Leighton
When entertainment lawyer Wolfgang Leighton decides to take a break from business for some fishing in Tennessee's backwoods, he ends up embroiled in a...

Warlock
1989
as Warlock
In 17th century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne captures an evil warlock, but the conjurer eludes death with supernatural help. Flung into th...

Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice
1989
as Father Daniel Mahoney
In this unusual feature, Manika is a girl born in a Catholic family in a south Indian fishing village is convinced that she has recently had a former ...

Murder on the Moon
1989
as Maj. Stepan Gregorivitj Kirilenko
After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the moon. When a murder occurs on the outpost, both U.S. and So...
Wherever You Are...
1988
as Julian
An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.

Vibes
1988
as Dr. Harrison Steele
Medium Sylvia Pickel and psychometrist Nick Deezy meet at a psychic research facility in New York. Not long after, they're contacted by Harry Buscafus...

Siesta
1987
as Kit
American Claire wakes up blood-soaked and bruised at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state, she has flashbacks from the ...

Basements
1987
as Mr. Sands (segment "The Room")
Basements is the title for the omnibus film that brings together two plays by Harold Pinter – The Dumb Waiter and The Room – each, once again, set in ...

Gothic
1987
as Percy Shelley
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and a...

A Room with a View
1986
as George Emerson
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George st...

Harem
1986
as Charles
A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly ge...

The Doctor and the Devils
1985
as Dr. Murray
In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to look for a more simple wa...

Romance on the Orient Express
1985
as Sandy
Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, who me...

After Darkness
1985
as Laurence Hunningford
To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to b...

The Killing Fields
1984
as Jon Swain
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American ...

Oxford Blues
1984
as Colin Gilchrist Fisher
A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Smitten, he pursues her to England, where his only chance of getting together with he...

Privates on Parade
1983
as Climbing Sailor
It is 1947, the year of the communist rebellion in Malaya and the British army's SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) are called to the Malay...

Soft Targets
1982
as Groom
Stephen Poliakoff's parody of the spy-thriller genre. A Russian diplomat becomes convinced that he is at the centre of a Foreign Office plot.
Mother Tongue
N/A
The story of a high-profile relationship between an Academy Award-winning actress (Josie Ho) and her much-younger partner, who has yet to find his tru...