Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Tim Matheson, Acclaimed Actor, Author, “Damn Glad to Meet You”.
Tim Matheson is a highly popular and respected actor, director and producer whose portrayal of the smooth talking “Eric Stratton” – better known as “Otter” – in the blockbuster movie, “National Lampoon’s Animal House”, made him a household name.
Some of his other movie credits include “Divorce American Style”, “Yours, Mine and Ours”, “How to Commit Marriage”, “Magnum Force”, “Almost Summer”, “1941”, “To Be or Not to Be”, “Fletch”, “A Very Brady Sequel”, “Van Wilder”, and “The Etruscan Smile”, for which he and his fellow cast members were named Best Ensemble Cast at the Boston Film Festival.
On television, he’s brought us numerous memorable characters, including “Jim Horn” on “The Virginian”, “Griff King” on “Bonanza”, “Quentin Beaudine” in “The Quest”, “Dr. Brick Breeland” in “Hart of Dixie”, “Doc Mullins” in “Virgin River”, and of course, “Vice President John Hoynes” on the highly acclaimed TV series, “The West Wing”, for which he received 2 Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series.
He’s appeared in hundreds of TV shows going all the way back to “Leave it to Beaver”, “My Three Sons”, “Here’s Lucy” and “Ironside”, as well as “Rhoda”, “Hawaii Five-O”, “Cybill”, “Without a Trace”, “Entourage”, “Burn Notice”, “CSI”, “Madam Secretary”, “This is Us”, and dozens more. You’ve seen him in a whole slew of TV movies and miniseries. Some favorites are “Blind Justice”, “The Littlest Victims”, “Little White Lies”, “Buried Alive”, “The Legend of Calamity Jane”, “Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis”, “Martha Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart”, “Judas”, and “Killing Reagan”, for which he was nominated for Best Actor at the Critics Choice Television Awards.
Over the years, Tim Matheson has also directed many TV shows and TV movies. In fact, he directed the pilot episodes for “The Good Guys” and “Covert Affairs.” AND NOW, he’s released a highly compelling and insightful memoir entitled, “Damn Glad to Meet You: My Seven Decades in the Hollywood Trenches”, in which he shares his remarkable life journey, taking us behind the scenes of his iconic career.
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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