Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with renowned director, producer, screenwriter & author, Fred Olen Ray.
Fred Olen Ray is a renowned director, producer, screenwriter and author whose body of work includes over 200 feature films in many genres including horror, sci-fi, action-adventure, erotic thrillers, crime dramas, rom-coms and holiday films.
Some of his most popular movies are “Scalps”, “The Tomb”, “Terminal Force”, “Beverly Hills Vamp”, “Haunting Fear”, “Evil Toons”, “The Shooter”, “Deadly Shores”, “Stage Fright”, to name only a few. And I have to mention the brilliant short film, “Spidora”, for which he won FOUR prestigious film festival awards.
He’s worked with everyone from Buster Crabbe, Roddy McDowall, Cliff Robertson, John and David Carradine and Martin Landau, to Chevy Chase, George Hamilton, Peter Fonda, Stella Stevens, Troy Donahue, Russ Tamblyn, Steven Segal and many more. Our guest has also produced and directed dozens of Christmas movies including some favorites, “A Prince for Christmas”, “A Christmas in Vermont”, “One Fine Christmas”, and “A Royal Christmas Holiday”.
On television, he produced “Dante’s Cove”, he wrote, produced and directed 28 episodes of “The Lair”, and he won an Emmy award and received 2 more Emmy nominations for his work on “The Bay”.
In addition, Fred Olen Ray has written 5 books: “Grind Show: Weirdness as Entertainment”, “The New Poverty Row: Independent Filmmakers as Distributors”, “Writing the Perfect Christmas TV Movie”, “Deep Red”, and his latest release, a fascinating, uninhibited and insightful memoir entitled “Hell-Bent for Hollywood: A Director’s Journey”, in which he takes the reader on his colorful and sometimes turbulent journey from fringe, low-budget filmmaking to a long-running, successful career as a highly respected writer, producer and director.
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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