2010 began well for Julian with a juicy cameo role as the East End gangster Sam Slash in Blacklands, a taut low budget thriller, written, directed by and starring Nicholas Beveney for Foughtnight Productions.Filmed on location in Deptford, the sequence reduced Sam Slash to a pulp and his team of goons to dead men.

Next up came another cameo role, this time in a music video called The Surf featuring 50 dancers giving it their all at the Café de Paris. Julian’s part was droll indeed, as one of four elderly semi-synchronised swimmers. Filmed around and in the huge pool at Tottenham Green Leisure Centre, the video stars the singer-songwriter Tug a War and was directed by Teddy Nygh for Fully Focused Productions.

Julian then played The Father in Nightsongs, a play by the Norwegian writer John Fosse, directed by Hamish McDougall, at The Cock Tavern, Kilburn. The play was generally well reviewed and Julian got a good little mention for it in The Stage.

The February Film Challenge was to make a B Movie, 70 minutes in length, in a month. Andrew Blackburn and Andrew Harmer took on this challenge. On Day One they were given the title “Attack of the Invisible People” and a month later they delivered the finished film. In it Julian played Van Doren, Chief Villain and head of the pharmaceutical company producing the Invisibility Serum. There was no time to write a full script so much of the dialogue and action were improvised on the day. A wonderful, fast paced shoot and a cracking film at the end of it.

Julian was then cast as Jacques Fournier in a medical film for Branding Science. Jacques Fournier, not his real name, was a cancer sufferer whose life was saved by advanced medical treatments. He tells his story with great stoicism and wit. Julian had to play this part in French; an intense experience.

In Open City, written and directed by Marcus McSweeney for Threefold Productions, Julian played the Landlord of The Carpenters Arms in Shoreditch. This film is a poetic meditation on the nature of our gloriously rich and varied metropolis, over the course of a day, seen through the eyes of a variegated mix of Londoners.

“If Only” is another medical film, this time dramatized in a ward of Guys Hospital and directed by Jamie Riordan for Propeller Media. In it Julian took the lead role of an Acutely Ill Patient, whose case becomes critical due to various oversights by hospital staff. It is used for teaching purposes.

Julian played a Judge in The Argument of the Broken Window Pane. This film lies somewhere between documentary and Art Installation and was written and directed by Olivia Plender and filmed in The Women’s Library in Whitechapel. It examines the trial of suffragettes, early in the 20th Century, through the medium of actors auditioning for parts in a play on that subject.

Rosanna Johnson and Amelia Marchant of Tukan Theatre organized a charity event called Ego War for ongoing support of Haitian earthquake victims. It was a cabaret-style event at The Rag Factory and featured comedy sketches, clowns, musicians, poets and others, among them Julian performing a semi-staged version of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven to gruesome effect. A healthy chunk of dosh was raised for Haiti.

“Smile” is a short film, made by Chris Roberts of The Brothers Fam, for entry into the Virgin Media Shorts competition. In it Julian played an old misery-guts (how did he win that role?), who sits in the reception of a clinic, waiting to be cured of his endemic gloom. This is achieved by a Smile Transplant from a vivacious young Donor.

Next Julian played a Rich Man, a would-be Sugar Daddy to the beautiful young Leading Lady, in “Quizas”, a promotional film for the Westbury Hotel directed by Martha Fiennes.

In June Julian travelled to Aragon to perform in the third and final Kuiperfest. As in the previous two festivals, Julian’s monologue was self-penned and a World Premiere. “Oscar and The Shrink” tells the story of an old, out of work, B Movie actor visiting his psychiatrist – and the psychiatrist’s receptionist – in an effort to get a grasp on his roller-coaster mental condition.

Back from Spain, Julian found himself cast as a Film Producer (vintage 1920s to judge from his costume) in a music video, directed by Diamond Dogs at HSI, for Olly Murs, a young singer who was runner-up in The X Factor and signed by Sony Music. Shot in and around a beautiful country house with tennis courts and swimming pool, the scenario was that of a party for the glitterati in which Olly finds the girl of his dreams. As a Film Producer, Julian was obliged to spend all his time chatting up one beautiful woman after another. It’s a hard life but someone has to do it.

Then Andrew Mackay of AMR Entertainment asked Julian to voice the trailer for his forthcoming feature film The Scared of Death Society, a dark and mysterious work, which will premiere within the next few weeks.

Julian’s last work in July was the lead role of Sir Edward Humphrey in a short film called “Birding With Humphrey” directed by Barry Ferns of The Leisure Virus. Julian has worked with Barry and his Leisure Virus cohort Chris Head off and on for many years, at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Comedy Store and other venues but hitherto always in live shows. It was a privilege and pleasure to work with them in a film.