Brian Protheroe was born on 16 June 1944 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Superman (1978), Nord et Sud (2004) and MI-5 (2002). He is married to Gilly Nash.
He starred in the Bertolt Brecht play, "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter, England with Bob Hoskins, Roy Marsden, Rhys McConnochie, Nick Brimble, Janet Dale, Robert Lindsay, Janette Legge, Diana Raworth, directed by Jane Howell.