The statement said the cause of death is not yet known, but Sands was an experienced hiker who loved the outdoors.
The positive identification comes less than a week after Sands' family (pictured) issued their initial statement on the case, saying they are "deeply grateful to the search teams and coordinators who worked tirelessly to find Julian."
About the actor himself - known for his roles in The Killing Fields, A Room with a View, Leaving Las Vegas, Warlock, Arachnophobia, Boxing Helena and the television series 24, Smallville and Banshee, among others - the family statement said: " We will always carry Julian in our hearts, with fond memories of him as a wonderful father, husband, explorer, lover of nature and the arts, and as an original and collaborative artist."
Sands was born on January 4, 1958 in West Yorkshire. He began his film career in 1984, starring in Oxford Blues and Best Picture Oscar nominee The Killing Fields. His breakthrough role was the role of the romantic lead in 1985's A Room with a View, playing the charming George Sands alongside Helena Bonham Carter. That was his springboard to Hollywood, where he started looking for bigger roles.
Sands was the title character in the 1989 film Warlock and its 1993 sequel, Warlock: The Armageddon. He also starred in Arachnophobia (1990), Boxing Helena (1993) and Leaving Las Vegas (1995), opposite Nicolas Cage, which won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Sands also played the ghost in the 1998 horror film The Phantom of the Opera, then switched to star opposite Jackie Chan in the 2003 action comedy The Medallion.
On television, his roles include the voice of Valmont in the animated series Jackie Chan Adventures in the first two seasons, the Doci of the Ori in two episodes of Stargate SG-1 - a role he reprised in the movie Stargate: The Ark of Truth - and appeared in the fifth season of 24 (pictured) as the terrorist Vladimir Bierko, and as Superboy's Kryptonian father, Jor-el, in Smallville. In addition, Sands guest starred in numerous other television series, including The Blacklist, Elementary, Gotham, Dexter, Person of Interest, Castle, and Ghost Whisperer.
Sands starred in a number of smaller films in 2021, two of which were direct-to-video.
His next of kin are his wife, journalist Evgenia Citkowitz, whom he married in 1990, their daughters Imogen Morley Sands and Natalya Morley Sands, and a son, Henry Sands, whom he had with his ex-wife journalist Sarah Sands.