24 Facts About Treat Williams

Richard Treat Williams was born on December 1,1951 and is an American actor, writer and aviator who has appeared on film, stage and television in over 120 credits.

Treat Williams first became well known for his starring role in the 1979 musical film Hair, and later starred in the films Prince of the City, Once Upon a Time in America, The Late Shift and 127 Hours.

Treat Williams has additionally been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, two Satellite Awards and an Independent Spirit Award.

Williams is a distant relative of Robert Treat Paine, who was a signatory to the Declaration of Independence.

Treat Williams graduated from the Kent School in Connecticut and Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania.

Treat Williams made his film debut in the 1975 thriller film Deadly Hero.

Treat Williams came to world attention in 1979, when he starred as George Berger in the Milos Forman film Hair, which was based on the 1967 Broadway musical.

Treat Williams was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role in the film.

Treat Williams was featured in the February 1980 edition of Playgirl magazine.

Treat Williams has gone on to appear in over 75 films and several television series.

In 1996, he played villain Xander Drax in Paramount's big budget comic book adaptation The Phantom, in which Treat Williams' character did his best to take over the world and kill Billy Zane's mysterious superhero.

Treat Williams 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.

Treat Williams premiered the Los Angeles production of Love Letters and appeared in War Letters at the Canon Theatre in Los Angeles.

Treat Williams played leading role as Dr Andrew Brown in the WB television series Everwood, about a New York City neurosurgeon who moves his family to Colorado.

Treat Williams received two SAG Award nominations for his role on the show.

Treat Williams starred in the short-lived series Heartland on TNT as Nathaniel Grant, but the series was canceled due to low ratings.

Treat Williams starred in a Lifetime movie, Staircase Murders, which aired April 15,2007.

Treat Williams starred in a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, Beyond the Blackboard, with his former Everwood co-star, Emily VanCamp.

Treat Williams has worked as a director, winning two festival awards for directing Texan in Showtime's Chanticleer Films series.

Treat Williams currently plays a role as Mick O' Brien in a Hallmark Channel television series called Chesapeake Shores originally airing August 2016 till current.

Treat Williams had a recurring role in Chicago Fire as Kelly Severide's father, Benny Severide until his character's death in season 7.

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

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

Treat Williams has owned a Piper Clipped-wing Cub, Piper Cherokee 180, Piper Seneca II and a Piper Navajo Chieftain which is used for family travel between homes.