31 Facts About Treat Williams

Treat Williams received many accolades for his work, including nominations for three Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and an Independent Spirit Award.

Treat Williams received further acclaim for his performance in the Sidney Lumet crime drama Prince of the City.

Treat Williams appeared in many other films throughout his career, both in leading and supporting roles, including Once Upon a Time in America, Flashpoint, Smooth Talk, The Men's Club, Dead Heat, The Phantom, The Devil's Own, Deep Rising, the Substitute franchise, The Deep End of the Ocean, Miss Congeniality 2, and 127 Hours.

Treat Williams starred as Mick O'Brien on the Hallmark series Chesapeake Shores and as Bill Paley in the FX miniseries Feud: Capote vs The Swans, the latter being his final appearance on screen.

Treat Williams was born in Stamford, Connecticut, on December 1,1951, the son of Marian, an antiques dealer, and Richard Norman Treat Williams, a corporate executive.

Treat Williams moved with his family to Rowayton, Connecticut, when he was three.

Treat Williams launched his professional acting career in musical theatre; first as an understudy to several of the male leads in the 1972 Broadway production of Grease, and then in a touring production of that musical.

In 1975, Treat Williams made his feature film debut with a supporting role in the thriller Deadly Hero.

Treat Williams' performance earned him a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.

Treat Williams starred as Stanley Kowalski in the 1984 television adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire, earning his third Golden Globe nomination, and was nominated for the 1985 Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead for his portrayal of Arnold Friend in that year's Smooth Talk.

Between 1993 and 1994, Treat Williams starred as cynical divorce attorney Jack Harold on the CBS sitcom Good Advice, which ran for two seasons and was unfavorably reviewed by critics, though some were complimentary of Treat Williams' performance.

In 1998, Treat Williams starred as Karl Thomasson, an ally of the previous film's protagonist, in the straight-to-video action film The Substitute 2: School's Out.

Treat Williams continued the role with The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All and The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option.

Treat Williams returned to the stage in 1999, earning critical acclaim for his work as Portuguese fisherman Manuel in the off-Broadway production of Captains Courageous, the Musical.

Between 2002 and 2006, Treat Williams played the lead role of Dr Andrew Brown on the WB's Everwood, a drama series about a widowed neurosurgeon moving from New York City to Colorado with his two children.

In 2007, Treat Williams starred as Nathaniel Grant in the short-lived TNT series Heartland, which was cancelled during its first-season run, and played real-life convicted murderer Michael Peterson in the Lifetime movie The Staircase Murders.

Treat Williams appeared in various television films during this period, such as the acclaimed political thriller Confirmation, playing US senator Ted Kennedy; Hallmark's The Christmas House, which drew attention for being the channel's first Christmas film to feature a same-sex couple; and the award-winning Netflix musical comedy Christmas on the Square.

Treat Williams played the principal role of Mick O'Brien on the Hallmark series Chesapeake Shores from 2016 until its final episode, which aired in October 2022.

In July 2024, it was revealed that Treat Williams had received a posthumous Emmy Award nomination for the role.

Treat Williams received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a TV Film for his portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and two nominations for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor for playing Michael Ovitz in The Late Shift and Bill Paley in Feud: Capote vs The Swans.

In 1969, Treat Williams' high school football coach, who was a flight instructor, offered to train him in a Piper PA-18 Super Cub.

Treat Williams later became an FAA instrument-rated commercial pilot with ratings in both single engine and multi-engine airplanes, as well as rotorcraft.

Treat Williams held a type rating for Cessna Citation jets.

Treat Williams learned to scuba dive in 1982 along with then-girlfriend Dana Delany while they spent time on Martha's Vineyard.

Treat Williams was open about his struggles with drug addiction during the 1980s, which he believed hampered his career at a time when he was being called an "up-and-coming Pacino or De Niro".

On June 12,2023, Treat Williams was involved in a motorcycle crash on Route 30, in Dorset, VT.

Treat Williams was airlifted to Albany Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at the age of 71.

Treat Williams was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident.

On March 8,2024,35-year-old Ryan Koss, the driver of the car that hit Treat Williams, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of negligent driving resulting in death.

Koss knew Treat Williams and had called his wife after the crash.

In September 2023, Treat Williams received a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award at the Boston Film Festival during recognition of the film American Outlaws, in which he appeared.