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Treat Williams Net Worth & Bio/Wiki 2018: Facts Which You Must To Know!
Richard Treat Williams (born December 1, 1951) is a Screen Actors Guild Award–nominated American celebrity and children’s book writer that has appeared on film, stage and television. He first became well known for his starring role in the 1979 movie “Hair”. He’s also famous for starring in “The Substitute” franchise, beginning together with the 2nd film of the show “The Substitute 2”.
Williams continues to be cast in the CBS television pilot Peachtree Lines as mayor Lincoln Rylan. Adding to his long record of achievements, Williams has released a children’s book titled Air Show! (Exemplified by Robert Neubecker, and released in 2010 by Disney/Hyperion Books). The target audience being kids ages three to seven, the novel playfully documents the airshow encounter with straightforward text and bold illustrations of such aircraft as a Boeing B-17, a Pitts Special biplane, as well as the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angel F/A-18.
Franklin & Marshall College, Longview High School, University of Oklahoma
Nationality
United States of America
Spouse
Pam Van Sant (m. 1988)
Children
Elinor Williams, Gill Williams
Parents
Richard Norman Williams, Marian Andrew Williams
Nicknames
Richard Williams , Richard Treat Williams , Sweet Treat , Big Meat Treat , Treat
Nominations
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series, Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead, Golden Globe Awa...
Movies
Hair, Deep Rising, Once Upon a Time in America, The Phantom, The Congressman, Dead Heat, The Deep End of the Ocean, Prince of the City, 127 Hours, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Devil's Own, Barefoot, Front of the Class, Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, Deadfall, Age of Dinosaurs, W...
TV Shows
Against the Wall, Heartland, Everwood, Good Advice, Eddie Dodd
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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(2011, on filming Prince of the City) You know, I was very young, but it's an extraordinary journey into the dark side. I realized seeing it 30 years later, as difficult as it is to see myself learning my craft on film... It really was an American tragedy, watching this guy try and find his way back from being corrupt. But you can't go back. You cannot undo it. And by trying to undo it and control it, he brought down the entire Special Investigations unit, and the New York Police Department changed. It's really an extraordinary job on Sidney [Lumet's] part. It's a great study in the human condition. It's a big film. It's big emotionally. It's operatic. It's a great, great film, I think. I wish I'd had more experience and been a little older when I did it, but it's the best I could do at the time, and I'm very proud of it.
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(2011, on filming The Phantom) Fun! You can see my teeth marks all over the screen. I chewed it up. But I had a blast. I mean, I don't think the film quite works, but I love Simon Wincer, the director, and Billy Zane was a lot of fun. The thing that was fun about that was that I'm a fan of the '30s screwball comedies and '30s-style acting, which was that balls-to-the-wall, all-American acting. It reminds me of the guy who starred in the original King Kong, where everybody's, like, "Say! We're gonna do this! Hey, let's take this bar and turn it into a theater!" You know? I always thought that Xander Drax was kind of like Clark Gable on acid. So I had a lot of fun with that. Again, I was given a lot of leeway, and I just had a blast, saying stuff like, "The skulls of Touganda!" All that stuff was so much fun. If I'm not having fun, I don't really want to do it.
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(2011, on filming Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead) Probably one of the most iconic, interesting scripts. Scott [Rosenberg's] script, he created a new language that I just thought was amazing. And Gary Fleder, with whom I've remained very good friends, he's a wonderful director. Great guy. When I came in and said, "I think Critical Bill doesn't have a bathroom in the apartment, but he has to pee, so how about he pees in plastic bottles?" And someone said, "What if we have the plastic bottles lined up?" So everybody had these kind of weird, fun ideas, and then Andy [Garcia] started playing with the idea that the apartment smelled, so he's got the handkerchief through the whole scene. We just had a blast. It was a really fun, creative, open environment, and without Gary and Andy, I don't think Critical Bill would've come to life. But it really was one of my most fun roles. I'm really proud of that character. He was really fun to play. It's very difficult to make it work when someone's that far out on the edge of reality, but I think as a team we kind of pulled it off. And, I mean, look, you've got Andy, Christopher Walken, Jack Warden. Oh, man, Jack Warden. Who gets to work with Jack Warden? That was so cool. To have Jack Warden actually describing your character to the audience? That's one of the greatest honors I've ever had in film.
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(2011, on filming Hair) Probably the greatest film experience of my life. You know, throw on a pair of jeans and a vest and walk out of my apartment, walk into Central Park, and start shooting. It was so cool. I mean, a lot of prep, a lot of hard work on the singing and the dancing and all, but once we had that down, we started working in the park, and it was just really, really fun. I loved John Savage and Beverly D'Angelo, and Milos Forman is one of the great filmmakers of all time. That was really an honor to be a part of.
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(2011, on filming Deep Rising) Fun. Just fun. I loved that movie. Just six months of freezing cold water up in Vancouver, Canada. But a great cast, some of whom have become very big movie stars since then, and a wonderful director with a great mind, Stephen Sommers. Just a really terrific, great guy. Probably the most energetic director I've ever come across. I'm proud of that film! I think that film's fun. Unfortunately, it came out right on the heels of Titanic. Once you've seen one boat sink...
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Fact
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Is left-handed.
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Children: Son Gill Williams (b. 1992) and daughter Elinor Williams (b. 1998).
In 2003, completed two weeks of training to qualify for flying jet engine planes.
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Certified Flight Instructor, rated in single and multi-engine airplanes and helicopters.
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The nickname "Treat" comes from one of his maternal relatives (though not a direct ancestor), Robert Treat Paine, whose signature appears on the Declaration of Independence. Through his mother, Treat is also the great-great-great-grandson of William Henry Barnum, a Senator from Connecticut (who served from 1876 to 1879).
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Graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in 1973
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Was a professional pilot for a year in the early 1980s.
$4 Million
