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.
Despite often playing thugs and dimwitted characters on film & television, Brian was in fact a seasoned actor who had also played roles in Shakespeare and Chaucer (amongst others) on stage.
He is interred at Brompton Cemetery in West Brompton, London, England.
The actor in question frequently fought in wrestling bouts in Barnsley
in the early 1960s. He was a schoolmaster before turning to acting.
Considered for Dr. Armstrong, Lamson and the Fatherly Guard in Lifeforce (1985).