Treat Williams Biography

Birthday: 1951-12-01
Place of Birth: Rowayton, Connecticut USA
Height: 5' 10" (1.78 m)
Wiki Biography: 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 Here," 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 starred as a pair of maverick border patrolmen who come upon a large cache of stolen money; Sergio Leone'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."
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Filmography
TV Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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Howl | Mark Schorer | Action | |
Eddie Dodd | Eddie Dodd | 1991 | Drama |
Everwood | Dr. Andrew ''Andy'' Brown | 2005 - 2006 | Drama |
Eve of Destruction | Max Salinger | 2013 | Action |
Movies Title | Appeared As | Year | Genre |
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Phantom | Xander Drax | 1922 | |
The Eagle Has Landed | 1976 | 0, 0, Game Show | |
The Ritz | 1976 | Comedy | |
Hair | George Berger | 1979 | 0, 0, 0 |
Prince of the City | 1981 | 0 | |
The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper | D.B. Cooper | 1981 | Adventure, Crime, Thriller |
Once Upon a Time in America | James Conway O'Donnell | 1984 | 0 |
Smooth Talk | 1985 | Drama, Romance, Thriller | |
The Men's Club | Terry | 1986 | Drama |
Dead Heat | Roger Mortis | 1988 | |
La notte degli squali | David Ziegler | 1988 | Action |
Heart of Dixie | Hoyt Cunningham | 1989 | Drama |
The Third Solution | Mark Hendrix | 1989 | Crime, Thriller |
Sweet Lies | Peter | 1989 | Comedy, Romance |
The Water Engine | 1992 | Drama | |
Where the Rivers Flow North | Champ's Manager | 1994 | Drama |
Hand Gun | George McCallister | 1994 | Action, Crime, Thriller |
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead | Critical Bill Dooley | 1995 | 0, Comedy |
The Phantom | Xander Drax | 1996 | |
Mulholland Falls | Colonel Nathan Fitzgerald | 1996 | Game Show, Comedy |
The Late Shift | Michael Ovitz | 1996 | Comedy, Drama, Talk Show |
Deep Rising | John Finnegan | 1998 | Action, Horror, Sci Fi |
The Deep End of the Ocean | Pat Cappadora | 1999 | 0 |
Critical Mass | 2000 | ||
Crash Point Zero | Agent Jason Ross | 2001 | Action, Adventure |
Hollywood Ending | Hal | 2002 | 0 |
The Circle | Mr. Spencer Runcie | 2002 | Thriller |
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous | 2005 | Biography, Game Show, 0, 0 | |
Moola | Luis Gordon | 2007 | Comedy, Drama |
Il nascondiglio | Father Amy | 2007 | Mystery, Thriller |
What Happens in Vegas | Jack Fuller Sr. | 2008 | Biography |
What Happens in Vegas... | Jack Fuller Sr. | 2008 | Comedy, Romance |
Mask Maker | Mr. Tucker | 2010 | Horror |
Martino's Summer | Capitano Jeff Clark | 2010 | Drama |
127 Hours | Aron's Dad | 2011 | Adventure, Biography, Drama |
Oba: The Last Samurai | Colonel Wessinger | 2011 | Drama |
Attack of the 50ft Cheerleader | Dr. Grey | 2012 | Comedy |
A Little Bit of Heaven | Jack Corbett | 2012 | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy |
Deadfall | Sheriff Marshall T. Becker | 2012 | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
Age of Dinosaurs | Gabe Jacobs | 2013 | Action |
Flores Raras | Roberrt Lowell | 2013 | Biography, Drama, Romance |
In the Blood | Robert Grant | 2014 | Comedy, Game Show |
The Congressman | Charlie Winship | 2016 |