Julian Sands

Joined the cast of the FOX drama 24 in season five as billionaire bad guy, Vladamir Bierko

Co-starred in the romantic drama The Scoundrel s Wife

Acted in Figgis experimental Timecode , a presentation of four fully improvised movies filmed in a single take and exhibited on a quadruple split screen

Appeared in the sex-themed suspense thriller Mercy , aired on HBO

Played King Louis XIV in Roland Joffe s Vatel , the story of a chef and entertainer hired to fete the monarch

Reteamed with Figgis, starring in the episodic The Loss of Sexual Innocence

Starred as The Phantom of the Opera in Dario Argento s reworking of the classic tale

Appeared in the Mike Figgis drama One Night Stand

Had a guest starring role on an episode of Chicago Hope (CBS)

Acted in the ABC TV-movie The Great Elephant Escape

Had a supporting role in Figgis Leaving Las Vegas

Co-starred in Mike Figgis The Browning Version , the first of several collaborations with the director

Played a leftist German author encountering the rise of facism in 1920s Italy in Klaus Maria Bransauer s Mario and the Magician

Reprised titular role in Warlock: The Armageddon

Starred in Jennifer Chambers Lynch s notorious directorial debut Boxing Helena

Acted in TNT s Grand Isle , a TV-movie drama based on Kate Chopin s The Awakening

Had a supporting role in David Cronenberg s ambitious Naked Lunch

Played Franz Liszt in James Lapine s Impromptu and Gustav Jung in Carlo Lizzani s Cattiva

Featured in the thriller Arachnophobia

Had a starring role in Il Sole anche di notte , a Italian-French co-production helmed by the Taviani brothers

Starred as a 17th-century Warlock in Steve Miner s time travel adventure

Featured in the quirky psychic comedy Vibes

Starred in the Robert Altman-directed ABC TV-movie presentation The Room , based on Harold Pinter s one-act play

Had a memorable featured role in the Merchant-Ivory production A Room With a View

Played Percy Bysshe Shelley in Gothic , a Ken Russell film based loosely upon the memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Featured in the NBC TV-movie Romance on the Orient Express

Appeared in the comedy Oxford Blues

Had a featured role in Roland Joffe s The Killing Fields

First appearance in feature film, Privates on Parade ; had one-line part

TV debut in A Married Man on England s Channel Four (syndicated in 1984)

First film appearance in Derek Jarman short, Broken English

Founded small theater company that performed in schools and youth clubs