Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Nicholas Hammond, Renowned Actor, who plays Friedrich in “The Sound of Music”.
Nicholas Hammond is a highly popular and beloved actor, writer and director whom we first fell in love with in 1965 when he played “Friedrich von Trapp”, the eldest son of the von Trapp children, in the classic movie, “The Sound of Music”.
And of course, we remember him as the very first live action “Peter Parker” – better known as “Spider-Man” – in the 1977 movie “Spider-Man” and the 2 sequels, “Spider-Man Strikes Back” and “Spider-Man: The Dragon’s Challenge”, as well as on the iconic TV show, “The Amazing Spider-Man”.
But beyond those iconic roles, our guest has brought us many other great performances. On Broadway, at the age of 11, he played Sir Michael Redgrave’s son in “The Complaisant Lover”, and in 1970 he returned to Broadway to star in “Conduct Unbecoming”.
On the big screen, he appeared in “Lord of the Flies”, “Skyjacked”, “Superdad”, “Emerald City”, “The Black Cobra 2”, “Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles”, “Stealth”, “Turkey Shoot”, “Ladies in Black”, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, “Art of Eight Limbs” and many more. And on TV, he’s appeared in dozens of shows including “The Brady Bunch”, “The Waltons”, “Gunsmoke”, “Falcon Crest”, “Dallas”, “General Hospital”, “Murder She Wrote”, “Mirror, Mirror”, “BackBerner”, “MDA”, just to name a few.
And you’ve seen him in a whole slew of TV movies and miniseries including “Catch-22”, “Rich Man, Poor Man”, “The Martian Chronicles”, “Cyclone Tracy”, “The Challenge”, “Trouble in Paradise”, “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, “On the Beach”, “Gallipoli” and many more. Nicholas Hammond is also a very gifted writer. He co-wrote the TV miniseries “A Difficult Woman” and the TV movie, “Secret Men’s Business”.
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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