Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Acclaimed Actor, Producer & Director, Jonathan Silverman.
Jonathan Silverman is a popular actor, producer and director who has brought us many great performances on the stage, as well as in movies and on television.
On Broadway, he starred in three classic Neil Simon plays: “Brighton Beach Memoirs”, “Biloxi Blues” and “Broadway Bound”. And he reprised his starring role as “Eugene Jerome” in the movie version of “Brighton Beach Memoirs”. He also played “Stanley Jerome” in the TV movie version of “Broadway Bound”.
His feature film credits include “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”, “Caddyshack 2”, “Stealing Home”, “Weekend at Bernie’s One and Two”, “Class Action”, “Death Becomes Her”, “Breaking the Rules”, “Swinging with the Finkels”, and “Andover”, for which he won the Audience Choice Award at the Orlando Film Festival. And for his performance in “Snatched”, he was named Best Supporting Actor at the Hoboken International Film Festival.
And on television, we remember him as “Jonathan Maxwell” on “Gimme a Break”, “Jonathan Eliot” on “The Single Guy”, “Harry Kennison” on “In Case of Emergency”, “Harrison Marlowe” on “Significant Mother”, “Dave” on “Good Girls”, and “Daniel Bennett” on “Moonshine”, in addition to a whole slew of guest appearances on many other great TV shows like “ER”, “Friends”, “CSI Miami”, “Medium”, “Hot in Cleveland”, “Law & Order: SVU” and “Scandal”, to name only a few.
He’s also appeared in numerous TV movies including “Challenge of a Lifetime”, “For Richer, For Poorer”, “12:01”, “The Inspectors 1 and 2”, “These Old Broads”, “Bobbie’s Girl”, “Jack’s Family Adventure” and many more. And among the movies he’s directed, he was named Best Director at the L.A. Comedy Film Festival for his 2013 feature film, “Another Dirty Movie”.
And now Jonathan Silverman is co-starring in a new movie called “Feeling Randy”, in which he plays the father of a teenager struggling to come to terms with his sexuality.
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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