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The Golden Globe-nominated actor has appeared in a number of films, including Hair, and has a starring role in the television series Everwood.
Treat Williams, who has appeared in a number of films during his 50-year acting career, including Hair, Prince of the City, Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead, and Deep Rising, is in Died aged 71 after a motorcycle accident in Vermont.
In a statement released to Deadline, Williams’ family confirmed the cause of death, saying, “It is with great sadness that we report that our beloved Treat Williams passed away tonight in Dorset, Vermont after a fatal motorcycle accident.” As you can imagine, we are shocked and saddened at this time.”
A Vermont State Police report said the accident was being investigated, but initial investigations indicated that an SUV swerved left across Williams’ path, causing him to be unable to avoid a collision and sustaining serious injuries after being thrown from his motorcycle had been.
Williams lived regularly in rural Vermont Posting messages on social media about his love for the area.
Born Richard Treat Williams in 1951, he found work in the Broadway stage show Grease in the 1970s, initially as an understudy but also in the lead role of Danny Zuko. His early film roles included the role of a detective in the Richard Lester-directed comedy The Ritz and a US ranger in the war film The Eagle Has Landed. In 1979 he had his breakthrough as George Berger in the film adaptation of the hippie musical “Hair”. he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.
Williams then went on to star as the idealistic detective Danny Ciello in Sidney Lumet’s 1981 police corruption drama Prince of the City (for which he received another Golden Globe nomination) and played the stalker/creep Arnold Friend in Smooth Talk, opposite Laura Dern. an adaptation of “Smooth Talk” from 1985, a short story by Joyce Carol Oates. In 1988 he co-starred with Joe Piscopo in the zombie cop comedy Dead Heat.
Later roles have included ship’s captain John Finnegan in the seaward horror film Deep Rising, Critical Bill in the neo-noir thriller Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead, alongside Michelle Pfeiffer in the family drama The Deep End of the Ocean” and as a film producer in “The Deep End of the Ocean”. Woody Allen’s 2002 comedy Hollywood Ending.
Williams then landed a long-running lead role on the television series Everwood from 2002 to 2006, playing a doctor who moves his family to small town Colorado. This led to a string of guest appearances on shows ranging from The Simpsons to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
Williams married Pam Van Sant in 1988 and had two children.
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