As a background or character actor he played many small roles in both television and movies filmed for the most part on Canada's East Coast.
Brian Huggins later moved to London to pursue his career in journalism which he had started at the Leicester Evening Mail.
He married Catherine Costello (1943-1984), with whom he had two children, son Paul Charles (b.1967 Montréal) and daughter Piper Elizabeth (b.1969 Ottawa).
[citation needed] Brian Huggins was a member of the Ottawa Press Club, Canadian Union of Public Employees, Royal St George's Society of Halifax, Chester Yacht Club, Royal Over-Seas League, Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists, and the New Democratic Party.
Cause of death is unconfirmed by an autopsy report; clinical prognosis: rapid degenerative brain decease that presented first as Aphasia.