Treat Williams

Richard Treat Williams (born December 1, 1951 in Rowayton, Connecticut) is an American actor.

Biography

Early life

Williams was born in Rowayton, Connecticut to Richard Norman Williams, a prize-fighter, and his wife Marion Treat, a housewife, for whom he is named. Williams graduated from the Kent School in Connecticut and Franklin and Marshall College.

Career

Williams came to world attention when he starred in the Miloš Forman film Hair (1979). This film was based on the Broadway musical Hair. Since that time he has gone on to appear in over seventy-five films and several television series, including, most notably, 1941 (1979), Once Upon A Time In America (1984), Dead Heat (1988), Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) and Deep Rising (1998).

Expected to become a big star in the early '80s due to his talent and film exposure, he never quite did, though he did become a prolific character actor who remains active in films to this day. From 2002 to 2006 he was the star of the popular television series Everwood.

Williams was nominated for a Golden Globe award for his part in Hair. He got a second Golden Globe nomination for starring in Sydney Lumet's Prince of the City. He got a third nomination for his performance as Stanley Kowalski in the television presentation of A Streetcar Named Desire. In 1996, he was nominated Best Actor by the Emmy Awards for his work in The Late Shift, an HBO movie. Williams has also worked as a director, winning won two festival awards for directing Texan in Showtime's Chanticleer series.

In 1996, he played bad guy Xander Drax in Paramount's big budget comic book adaptation, The Phantom, where he did his best to take over the world and kill Billy Zane's mysterious superhero.

Williams' acting career includes numerous stage roles. He won a Drama League Award for his work in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies, and another for starring in the off-Broadway production of Captains Courageous .

Other notable Broadway shows include Grease, the Sherman Brothers' Over Here!, Once in a Lifetime, Pirates of Penzance and Love Letters, and off-Broadway, he has appeared in David Mamet's Oleanna and Oh, Hell (at Lincoln Center), Some Men Need Help, and Randy Newman's Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong.

He premiered the Los Angeles production of Love Letters and appeared in War Letters at the Canon Theatre in Los Angeles.

Williams is probably best known for his leading role as Dr. Andrew Brown in the former WB series Everwood, about a New York neurosurgeon who moves his family to the fictional Everwood, Colorado. Although the show's ratings were never spectacular, it won critical acclaim and had a devoted following. Williams received two SAG award nominations (2003 and 2004) for his role on the show.

Williams has recently made several guest appearances on the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters playing the role of David Morton, a friend and potential suitor of the Sally Field character.

As of recent news Williams is set to star in a new series on the TNT network titled "Heartland" in which he will be playing a surgeon. The show is scheduled to start in June 2007.

Personal life

Williams lives with his wife and two children in New York City, although they have a home in Utah where Everwood was shot. They also own a house in Manchester, Vermont.

Movie and Television Performances

• Brothers & Sisters (2006)
• Searching for Mickey Fish (2006) (post-production)
• Everwood (television series)(2002-06)
• Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005)
• Hollywood Ending (2002)
• Going to California (2002) television episode
• Guilty Hearts (2002) (television)
• Venomous (2002)
• Gale Force (2002) (V)
• UC: Undercover (2002) television episode
• Skeletons in the Closet (2001)
• The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option (2001) (V)
• The Fraternity (2001)
• Critical Mass (2000)
• Extreme Limits (2000)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999) (television)
• The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All (1999) (television)
• 36 Hours to Die (1999) (television)
• The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
• Every Mother's Worst Fear (1998) (television)
• The Substitute 2: School's Out (1998) (television)
• Escape: Human Cargo (1998) (television)
• Deep Rising (1998)
• The Devil's Own (1997)
• The Phantom (1996)
• Mulholland Falls (1996)
• The Late Shift (1996) (HBO)
• Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
• Johnny's Girl (1995) (television)
• In the Shadow of Evil (1995) (television)
• The Taming Power of the Small (1995)
• Mister Dog (1995)
• Texan (1994) (television)
• Parallel Lives (1994) (television)
• Where the Rivers Flow North (1994)
• Hand Gun (1994)
• Vault of Horror I (1994) (television)
• Good Advice (1993) (television series)
• Road to Avonlea (television)
• Bonds of Love (1993/I) (television)
• Deadly Matrimony (1992) (television)
• Batman (1992)
• The Water Engine (1992) (television)
• Tales from the Crypt (1992) (television)
• Till Death Us Do Part (1992) (television)
• Final Verdict (1991) (television)
• Eddie Dodd (1991) television series
• Max and Helen (1990) (television)
• Drug Wars: The Camarena Story (1990) television miniseries
• Oltre l'oceano (1990)
• Russicum - I giorni del diavolo (1989)
• Heart of Dixie (1989)
• Third Degree Burn (1989) (television)
• Dead Heat (1988)
• Sweet Lies (1988)
• Echoes in the Darkness (1987) (television)
• Faerie Tale Theatre (1987) (television)
• J. Edgar Hoover (1987) (television)
• Notte degli squali, La (1987)
• The Men's Club (1986)
• Smooth Talk (1985)
• Some Men Need Help (1985) (television)
• Flashpoint (1984)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1984) (television movie)
• Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
• Stangata napoletana (1983)
• Dempsey (1983) (television)
• The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper (1981)
• Prince of the City (1981)
• Why Would I Lie? (1980)
• Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
• 1941 (1979)
• Hair (1979)
• The Ritz (1976)
• The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
• Deadly Hero (1976)

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