- Started his wrestling career as Erik Tanberg, the blond from Sweden, until he took up the name of an absentee wrestler and became Leon Arras, the man from Paris. He was the son of a wrestler, Charlie Glover, whose own ring name was the Red Devil.
- Submitted a script for Doctor Who (1963) in the 1980s. The same decade, he played Griffiths in Attack of the Cybermen: Part One (1985).
- Despite often playing thugs and dimwitted characters on film and television, Brian was in fact a seasoned actor who had also played roles in Shakespeare and Chaucer (amongst others) on stage.
- He frequently fought in wrestling bouts in Barnsley in the early 1960s. He was a schoolmaster before turning to acting.
- He is interred at Brompton Cemetery in West Brompton, London, England.
- Considered for Dr. Armstrong, Lamson and the Fatherly Guard in Lifeforce (1985).
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