A new start after 60: 'I almost died of cancer. Then I became an actor " at 63!'
Julian Bird was a psychiatrist when he was diagnosed with bladder cancer " and began daydreaming about being an actor. Seventeen years later, he is playing the lead at a London theatre When Julian Bird was 60, he was diagnosed with cancer of the bladder. He had a series of operations, "all very unpleasant", and learned that he "was likely to die pretty soon". After 34 years as a psychiatrist, in that intense state of…