Treat Williams

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Treat Williams
Born	December 1, 1951 (1951-12-01) (age 58) Rowayton, Connecticut, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Spouse(s)	Pam Van Sant (1988-Present) 2 children

Treat Williams (born December 1, 1951) is an American actor who has appeared on film, stage and television over the course of his career.^[1] From 2002 to 2006, he was the star of the television series Everwood.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Career 1.3 Personal life 2 Filmography 2.1 Films 2.2 Television 2.3 Theater 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Williams was born Richard Treat Williams in Norwalk, Connecticut, the son of Marion (née Andrew), an antiques dealer, and Richard Norman Williams, a corporate executive.^[2] He was named after his ancestor, Richard Treat, (1584 - 1669) an early New England settler and a Patentee of the Royal Charter of Connecticut, 1662. Williams graduated from the Kent School in Connecticut and Franklin and Marshall College.

[edit] 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).

Williams was nominated for a Golden Globe award for his part in Hair as George Berger. He got a second Golden Globe nomination for starring in Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City (1981) and a third for his performance as Stanley Kowalski in the television presentation of A Streetcar Named Desire. In 1996, Williams was nominated for a Best Actor Emmy Award by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for his work in The Late Shift, an HBO movie, in which he portrayed agent Michael Ovitz.

Williams has also worked as a director, winning 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' 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 may be 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 David Morton, a friend and potential suitor of the Sally Field character. Williams starred in the short lived series Heartland on the TNT as Nathaniel Grant, the head of a Pittsburgh organ transplant center, before it was canceled due to low ratings. He also starred in a Lifetime movie called the Staircase Murders, which aired April 15, 2007.

[edit] Personal life

Williams lives with his wife and two children in Utah where Everwood was shot. The family also has homes in New York City and Manchester, Vermont.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1976	The Ritz	Michael Brick
	Marathon Man	Central Park Jogger (uncredited)
	Deadly Hero	Billings
	The Eagle Has Landed	Capt. Harry Clark
1979	Hair	George Berger
	1941	Cpl. Chuck 'Stretch' Sitarski
1980	Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back	Jess Allashane / Jerrol Blendin (uncredited)
	Why Would I Lie?	Cletus
1981	Prince of the City	Daniel Ciello
	The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper	D.B. Cooper
1983	Stangata napoletana	Ferdinando detto Giugiù
	Dempsey	Dempsey	TV movie.
1984	Once Upon a Time in America	James Conway O'Donnell
	A Streetcar Named Desire	Stanley Kowalski	TV movie.
	Flashpoint	Ernie Wyatt
1985	Some Men Need Help	Hudley T. Singleton III	TV movie.
	Smooth Talk	Arnold Friend
1986	The Men's Club	Terry
1987	J. Edgar Hoover	J. Edgar Hoover	TV movie.
	Echoes in the Darkness	Rick Guida	TV movie.
1988	Sweet Lies	Peter Nicholl
	Russicum - l giorni del diavolo	Mark Hendrix
	La notte degli squali	David Ziegler
	Dead Heat	Det. Roger Morris
1989	Third Degree Burn	Scott Weston	TV movie.
	Heart of Dixie	Hoyt Cunningham
1990	Oltre l'oceano
	Max and Helen	Max Rosenberg	TV movie.
1991	Final Verdict	Earl Rogers	TV movie.
1992	Till Death Us Do Part	Alan Palliko	TV movie.
	The Water Engine	Dave Murray	TV movie.
	Deadly Matrimony	Alan Masters	TV movie.
1993	Bonds of Love	Robby Smith	TV movie.
	Where the Rivers Flow North	Champ's Manager
1994	Vault of Horror I		TV movie.
	Hand Gun	George McCallister
	Parallel Lives	Peter Barnum	TV movie.
	Texan	Man in Chinos	TV movie.
1995	The Taming Power of the Small
	Mister Dog
	In the Shadow of Evil	Jack Brenner	TV movie.
	Johnny's Girl	Johnny	TV movie.
	Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead	Critical Bill
1996	Mulholland Falls	Colonel Nathan Fitzgerald
	The Late Shift	Michael Ovitz	TV movie.
	The Phantom	Xander Drax
1997	The Devil's Own	Billy Burke
1998	Deep Rising	Finnegan
	Escape: Human Cargo	John McDonald	TV movie.
	The Substitute 2: School's Out	Karl Thomasson	TV movie.
	Every Mother's Worst Fear	Mitch Carson (uncredited)	TV movie.
1999	The Deep End of the Ocean	Pat Cappadora
	36 Hours to Die	Noah Stone	TV movie.
	The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All	Karl Thomasson	TV movie.
	Journey to the Center of the Earth	Theodore Lytton	TV movie.
2000	Critical Mass	Mike Jeffers
	Crash Point Zero	Agent Jason Ross
	Hopewell		TV movie.
2001	The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option	Karl Thomasson	Video.
	Skeletons in the Closet	Will	Video.
	Venomous	Dr. David Henning	Video.
2002	Gale Force	Sam Garrett	TV movie.
	Guilty Hearts	Stephen Carrow	TV movie.
	Hollywood Ending	Hal
	The Circle	Mr. Spencer Runcie
2005	Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous	FBI Asst. Director Walter Collins
2007	The Staircase Murders	Michael Peterson	TV movie.
	Moola	Luis Gordon
	Il nascondiglio	Father Amy
2008	Good Behavior	Burt Valencia	TV movie.
	What Happens in Vegas	Jack Fuller Sr.
2009	Chasing a Dream	Gary Stiles	TV movie.
	Safe Harbor	Doug	TV movie.
2010	Howl	Mark Schorer	Completed.

[edit] Television

Year	Title	Role
1984	Great Performances Ep: The Music Lives On
1987	Faerie Tale Theatre Ep: The Little Mermaid	Prince Andrew
1990	Drug Wars: The Camarena Story TV miniseries.	Ray Carson
1991	Eddie Dodd	Eddie Dodd
1992	Tales from the Crypt Ep: None But the Lonely Heart	Howard Prince
	Batman Ep:Cat Scratch Fever Ep: Moon of the Wolf	Professor Milo
1993	Road to Avonlea Ep: Moving On	Zak Morgan
	Good Advice 1993-1994	Jack Harold
2002	UC: Undercover Ep: Teddy C	Teddy Collins
	Going to California Ep: The West Texas Round-up and Other Assorted Misdemeanors	Officer Terrence 'Terry' Miller
	Everwood 2002-2006	Dr. Andrew 'Andy' Brown
2006	Brothers & Sisters 4 episodes.	David Morton
2007	Heartland 9 episodes.	Dr. Nathaniel 'Nate' Grant
2008	Hallmark Hall of Fame Ep: Front of the Class	Norman Cohen
2009	The Storm Ep: The Storm, Part 1 Ep: The Storm, Part 2	Robert Terrel

[edit] Theater

Year	Title	Role
1972-1980	Grease	Danny Zuko
1974-1975	Over Here!	Utah
1978	Once in a Lifetime	Jerry Hyland
1981-1982	The Pirates of Penzance	The Pirate King
1982	Some Men Need Help	Hudley T. Singleton III
1989	Bobby Gould in Hell	Bobby Gould
1989-1990	Love Letters	Andrew Makepiece Ladd III
1992-1994	Oleanna	John
1999	Captains Courageous, The Musical	Manuel
2001	Follies	Buddy Plummer

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Treat Williams cast bio on The WB
• Treat Williams at the Internet Movie Database
• Treat Williams at the Internet Broadway Database
• Treat Williams at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Remarkably Good - TFL.org Approved Fanlisting for Treat Williams