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Treat WilliamsAdd to My CelebsAge 60 Birthday Dec. 1st, 1951 Born in Rowayton, Connecticut, USA Height 5' 10" |
Treat Williams' Main TV Roles
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Main Movie Roles2010 - 127 Hours2008 - What Happens in Vegas... 2007 - Il nascondiglio 2007 - Moola 2002 - Hollywood Ending 1999 - The Deep End of the Ocean 1998 - Deep Rising 1997 - The Devil's Own 1996 - Cannes Man 1996 - The Phantom 1996 - Mulholland Falls 1995 - Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead 1984 - Once Upon a Time in America 1984 - Flashpoint 1981 - Prince of the City 1981 - The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper 1980 - Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back 1979 - 1941 1979 - Hair 1976 - Marathon Man 1976 - The Eagle Has Landed |
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB
Treat Williams is the Connecticut-born, prep-school-educated actor who first made a serious commitment to his craft during his days at Pennsylvania's Franklin and Marshall College. Working summers with the nearby Fulton Repertory Theatre at Lancaster in the heart of Amish country, Williams performed the classics as well as contemporary dramas and musicals. After graduating, Williams--whose first name, incidentally, is a family surname on his mother's side--headed for Manhattan where he understudied the Danny Zuko role in "Grease." After working in the The Andrews Sisters musical "Over There," he made his film debut as a cop in Deadly Hero (1976), then returned to "Grease," this time in the starring role. While he took leaves for two small film roles, in The Ritz (1976) and The Eagle Has Landed (1976), it was his stage work in "Grease" that led to his cinematic breakthrough in Hair (1979). Spotted by director Milos Forman, Williams was asked to read for the role of Berger, the hippie. It took 13 auditions to land the part, but the film's release catapulted Williams into stardom. He then portrayed a GI on the make in Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979) and starred in the romantic comedy Why Would I Lie? (1980) before tackling the role of Danny Ciello, the disillusioned New York City cop who blew the whistle on his corrupt colleagues in Sidney Lumet's Prince of the City (1981). He followed that with The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981), in which he played the legendary plane hijacker who successfully eluded capture (by Robert Duvall); Flashpoint (1984), in which he and Kris Kristofferson (I) starred as a pair of maverick border patrolmen who come upon a large cache of stolen money; Sergio Leone (I)'s Once Upon a Time in America (1984), in which he played a Jimmy Hoffa-like labor organizer; and Smooth Talk (1985), a screen adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' short story, "Where Are You Going?" Television viewers have seen Williams in a prestigious pair of dramas, Dempsey (1983) (TV), a three-hour story of the hard-living heavyweight champ, and John Erman's adaptation of Tennessee Williams' classic "A Streetcar Named Desire," which pitted Williams' Stanley Kowalski against Ann-Margret's Blanche Dubois. Williams has also returned to Broadway sporadically -- first to appear in "Once in a Lifetime" while filming "Hair," and in 1981 to play the role of the pirate king in "The Pirates of Penzance."
TRIVIA:
- Was a professional pilot for a year in the early 1980s.
- Children: Son Gill Williams (b. 1992) and daughter Elinor Williams (b. 1998).
- Certified Flight Instructor, rated in single and multi-engine airplanes and helicopters.
- Graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in 1973
- The nickname "Treat" comes from one of his maternal ancestors, Robert Treat Paine, whose signature appears on the Declaration of Independence.
- Was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in June 2004.
- Graduated from Kent School, the same high school that 'Ted Danson' (qv), 'Peter Farrelly' (qv) and 'Seth MacFarlane' (qv) attended.
- Andy Brown, Williams' character on _"Everwood" (2002)_ (qv), was ranked #43 in TV Guide's list of the "50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time" [20 June 2004 issue].
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