- A frequent gag in the "Carry On" movies was his character bumping into low hanging objects. He was seen hitting exit signs, chandeliers and light fixtures due to his height of 6' 7".
- He made great efforts to prepare for roles, for example learning genuine Swahili phrases for Carry on Up the Jungle (1970).
- Although officially starring in 14 Carry On films, Bresslaw did appear in one other: Carry on Nurse (1959). The legs of Terence Longdon were deemed to be too thin and scrawny looking, so Bresslaw's were used as stand-ins for the scene where Joan Sims gives him a bath.
- Despite appearing to be rather dumb in many of his films he was very well read.
- At 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m), he was the tallest of the Carry On cast, head and shoulders over fellow Carry On regular, Barbara Windsor, who was 4 ft 10 in (1.47 m).
- He recorded the single 'Mad Passionate Love'.
- Bresslaw, together with Miriam Margolyes, appeared with English comedienne Maureen Lipman in a series of British Telecom advertisements in the late 1980s. Bresslaw and Margoyles played Gerald and Dolly, a nervous couple who drop in unannounced on Lipman's character Beattie and her husband Harry.
- He featured as Varga, the lead villain in the 1967 Doctor Who (1963) story The Ice Warriors. Even though all the actors playing the aliens were over six feet tall, Bresslaw towered over them. Sonny Caldinez, who played an Ice Warrior in the story, stated in a 2004 interview that Bresslaw "was the only man that could make me feel small.".
- Bresslaw was the author of a privately published volume of poetry, Ode to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
- He was considered to play The Monster in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), but lost out to Christopher Lee.
- He was the father of James Bresslaw, who has been interviewed about him for documentaries on the Carry On series and Doctor Who (1963).
- He was offered the role of King Ferdinand of Spain in Carry on Columbus (1992), but turned it down. The role went to Leslie Phillips.
- In his fleeting appearance as an angry lorry driver in Spring and Port Wine (1970), his character was dubbed.
- His theatre work includes Jonathan Brewster in 'Arsenic and Old Lace' at Chichester, Prospero in 'Hamlet at Lulow, Det Sgt Porterhouse in 'Run For Your Wife' at The Criterion, London, Abanaza in 'Alladin at Richmond, Merlin in 'A Connecticutt Yankee in the Court of King Arthur' at Regents Park and Grumio in 'Taming of the Shrew' at Regents Park.
- He was in 153 episodes of The Army Game comedy series from 1957, as pvt 'Popeye' Popplewell.
- Died from a heart attack whilst playing grumio in an open air theatre production of 'the taming of the shrew' in Regent's Park in London.
- He was 17 stone in weight and had size 12 feet.
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