Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Robert Hays, Renowned Actor, Producer & Director.
Robert Hays is a highly popular actor, producer and director who has brought us a number of iconic performances over the years in movies and on television.
He made his feature-film debut in the landmark 1980 comedy “Airplane!”, playing “Ted Striker”, the traumatized former pilot who must land the plane when the flight crew gets struck by food poisoning. Two years later, he reprised his role as “Ted Striker” in “Airplane II: The Sequel”.
On television, we remember him as “Brad Benson” on “Angie”, and “Paul Forrester” – better known as “Starman” – on the TV series, “Starman”. And of course, he was the voice of “Tony Stark” – better known as “Iron Man” – in THREE different TV series: “Iron Man”, “Spider-Man: The Animated Series” and in an episode in Season 1 of “The Incredible Hulk” called “Helping Hands, Iron Fist”.
In addition to those shows, Robert Hays has appeared in many great movies including “Take This Job and Shove It”, “Scandalous”, “Cat’s Eye”, “Fifty/Fifty”, “Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey”, “Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco”, “Dr. T & the Women”, and “Alex in Wonder” and “Nicky’s Birthday Camera”, both of which he also produced. He’s guest starred in dozens of TV shows including “Marcus Welby”, “The Blue Knight”, “Wonder Woman”, “Laverne & Shirley”, “Touched by an Angel”, “That ’70s Show”, “Spin City” and many more. And he’s starred in a whole slew of great TV movies including “The Initiation of Sarah”, “Mister Roberts”, “Murder by the Book”, “Running Against Time”, “Vanished”, “The Abduction”, “30 Years to Life”, and many more.
Harvey Brownstone is a retired judge of the Ontario Court of Justice and was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He is also the bestselling author of “Tug of War: A Judge’s Verdict on Separation, Custody Battles and the Bitter Realities of Family Court” and hosted “Family Matters with Justice Harvey Brownstone,” a television talk show on matters involving the family justice system.
After a distinguished legal career, Harvey was appointed a judge at the age of 38 in 1995. He has presided in family and criminal courts. He has been a trailblazer in several ways. He was the first openly gay judge in Canada. He was the first sitting judge in the world to write a national best seller and to host a TV talk show.
Harvey has been a role model and icon in the LGBTQ community. When same-sex marriage was legalized in Canada in 2003, he was the only judge to make himself publicly available to officiate at weddings for lesbian and gay couples travelling to Toronto from all over the world to get married. In 2007, he officiated at the wedding of Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer, the American couple whose marriage triggered the 2013 United States Supreme Court decision overturning the definition of “spouse” in the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
In February 2021, Harvey launched his online talk show “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” on his own YouTube channel. He saw this as an interesting hobby. Within several months, the show attracted hundreds of thousands – and then eventually, millions – of viewers. Because of the overwhelming success of the show, Harvey decided to retire from the judiciary on December 31, 2021 after having presided as a full-time judge for 26 1/2 years. Free from the constraints imposed upon judges regarding the expression of opinions and the endorsement of private enterprise, Harvey now happily devotes his full-time attention to hosting “Harvey Brownstone Interviews” as a regular member of the public – albeit one with a rather illustrious and unique career history.
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