The

Treat Williams

Fan Page

Hi, I'm Patrick J. Kane and I made this site in tribute to my favorite actor Treat Williams. Unfortuneatly he's not that well known, I've talked to many many people about him and only a few know who the man is. Treat Williams is one of the best preformers out there. The man has done everything you could imagine, he's sung and danced in muscicals, voiced animated charectors, starred in drama, action, adventure, and comedy movies, he's done all this in both TV, the movies and Broadway. As of late he has even directed an award winning short film. I think after all this the man deserves a web-page.

VITAL STATISTICS:

Birth Name: Richard Treat Williams

Birthdate: December 1, 1951

Birthplace: Stamford, CT

FILMOGRAPHY:

The Deep End of the Ocean(1998)

Substitute II, The (1998)

Deep Rising (1997)

The Devil's Own (1997)

The Late Shift (1996)

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1996)

Mulholland Falls (1996)

The Phantom (1996)

Johnny's Girl (1995)

In The Shadow Of Evil (1995)

Hand Gun (1994)

Texan (1994) -Director

The Parallel Lives (1994)

Good Advice (1993)

Bonds Of Love (1993)

Where the Rivers Flow North (1993)

Batman The Animated Series - Moon Of The Wolf (1992)

Batman The Animated Series - Catscratch Fever (1992)

Deadly Matrimony (1992)

Till Death Us Do Part (1992)

The Water Engine (1992)

Eddie Dodd (1991)

Final Verdict (1991)

Johnny's Girl (1991)

Till Death Do Us Part (1991)

Max and Helen (1990)

Drug Wars: The Camarena Story (1990)

Beyond The Ocean (1990)

Road to Avonlea (1990)

3rd Degree Burn (1989)

Heart of Dixie (1989)

Night of the Sharks (1989)

Burro (1989)

The Third Solution (1989)

Dead Heat (1988)

J. Edgar Hoover (1988)

La Notte Degli Squali (1987)

Echoes in the Darkness (1987)

Sweet Lies (1987)

The Men's Club (1986)

Smooth Talk (1985)

The Faerie Tale Theatre - Little Mermaid (1984)

Once Upon A Time In America (1984)

Flashpoint (1984)

Dempsey (1983)

Stangata Napoletana---La Trastola (1983)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1983)

James Cagney - That Yankee Doodle Dandy (1981)

Prince of the City (1981)

Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)

Why Would I Lie? (1980)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

1941 (1979)

Hair (1979)

The Eagle Has Landed (1977)

The Ritz (1976)

Deadly Hero (1975)

Stage Credits Include but not limited to: The Pirates of Penzance, Oleanna , and Grease

AWARDS:

Treat was Nomiated for a Gold Globe for Best Dramatic Actor for "Prince Of The City"

He was Also Nominated For A Golden Globe for Best New Male Star of the Year For His Role In "Hair"

The Short Film "Texan" which Treat directed won best short film at the Ft. Lauderdale Film Festival

Treat won the New Director's Award for his film "Texan" at the Aspen Short Film Festival

More recently he was nominated for an emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Mini-Series or Special for his role in "The Late Shift"

The Movie "Prince Of The City" in which Treat starred was nominated for Best Screen Play(based on previously written material)

The Eipsode of Batman The Animated Series "Catscratch Fever" In Which Treat guest starred was nominated for an Emmy for Achievement in Music Direction

Treat's movie "Max & Helen" has the special honor of being played on a tv in the Holocaust Muesum in Wasington D.C

Special Interview/Artical:

'Phantom' a rare Treat

Villain role gives Williams last laugh on Hollywood

By Larry Ratliff, Express-News Movie Critic

Deep down, Treat Williams must be feeling a certain satisfaction by playing the gleefully sinister bad guy opposite Billy Zane's square-jawed hero in ''The Phantom.'' Playing power-hungry businessman Xander Drax somehow gives Williams, 44, a chance to send a Bronx cheer to the industry that has only occasionally recognized his talents.

Williams' career dawned in earnest with the Age of Aquarius of the rock-musical ''Hair'' in 1979 and peaked too soon with ''Prince of the City'' two years later. He's worked steadily since, but no role has really matched his considerable talent until the last year with the darkly humorous crime-drama, ''Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead.''

''I worked very hard to make him (Drax) sort of a compilation of 1930s heroic leading men and then take that character that looks like Clark Gable, that looks a little like Howard Hughes, and make him behave like a madman,'' Williams told a group of film journalists gathered around a table in a New York hotel. ''That was fun of the job - to look like Gable and act like Atilla the Hun,'' he said.

Maybe it's because he got his start in big-time New York theater as John Travolta's understudy in ''Grease,'' but much has been made of the fact that Williams, like Travolta, was gone from the Hollywood limelight for a while and now he's back. A major difference, however, is that Travolta's return was at the center of Quentin Tarantino's ''Pulp Fiction.'' Williams came back as Critical Bill, an ex-con boxer who works out by punching corpses at the local funeral parlor, in ''Denver,'' another critically acclaimed dark crime-comedy.

Like fellow ''Denver'' cast member William Forsythe, who plays the FBI agent-in-charge in ''The Rock,'' Williams was deeply saddened when ''Denver'' failed to find an audience. ''It was very disappointing. I would much prefer 'Denver' to be successful than to get an Oscar nomination,'' he said.

The fickle nature of Hollywood helped cause Williams to back away from his film career (partially by choice) when the really good roles began to dry up. ''It's a very unforgiving industry these days,'' he said. ''It's a very difficult thing for an actor to have longevity. You have to be a business person as well as an artist. You have to learn how to find people who will help guide you through the jungles of the Hollywood system. Younger actors who have early success need a lot of guidance because they can crash and burn. I see it consistently. The names of people starring in films this year are going to be different three years from now. And they were different three years ago,'' Williams said.

The dark-browed actor from Connecticut who chose to use his middle name in Hollywood instead of his first (Richard) is back in the Tinseltown loop. He co-starred with Nick Nolte and Chazz Palminteri in ''Mulholland Falls'' and is about to begin work on a sci-fi adventure, ''Deep Rising.''

In retrospect, his time out of the limelight didn't turn out so badly. ''I started my own company,'' he said. ''I met my wife. We had a child. I had the time to build a personal life. I did a lot of settling down, too.''

COMING SOON: A PICTURE GALLERY & TREAT WILLIAMS' COOL QUOTES.

One thing I've noticed in the movies I've seen him in Treat was giving the coolest and most rememberal lines in the movies. In the Phantom I walked away using such lines he uttered like "UN-BELIEV-ABLE" and "Where's your spirit of adventure?", In Things To Do In Denver When Your Dead if you remember anything about the movie it's Treat Williams and his lines like "I AM GODZILLA!! YOU ARE JAPAN!" and "Your Reputation FAR exceeds your skills". In Mulholand Falls he says the most rememberable line where Nick Nolte says "We Go Where the Case Takes Us" and Treat responds "NOT if it takes you here you don't". Even as far back as Prince of the City he got the good lines for example an Internal Affairs cop asks Treat "are you threating me?" Treat's response "absolutely". So look for the new section where I list just some of the cool lines Treat has giving over the years coming soon.

If you have any questions, comments, additions, corrections, pictures for my gallery, additional productions he's been in(Tv, Movies, Broadway, off broadway) or if you have Treat's snail mail or e-mail address please e-mail me at CriticalPat@Geocities.com

Special thanks: Lisa "Bum" Mckee for the Idea, Casey Parker for tolerating my Treat Williams obsession, Loretta for informing me that Max and Helen is playing in the Holocaust muesum, and of course Treat Williams for kicking ass

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