Treat Williams Filmography

Born:: December 1, 1951 in Rowayton, CT
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Richard Williams
Biography:: After attending Franklin and Marshall College, Treat Williams acted with the prestigious Fulton Repertory troupe. Williams made his Broadway debut in Grease (1976) eventually taking over the leading role of Danny Zuko. His later Broadway credits included the musicals Over Here and Pirates of...Read More

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What Happens in Vegas

Actors: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Rob Corddry, Lake Bell, Treat Williams

Synopsis: Two strangers (Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher) find themselves hitched after a wild night of Las Vegas shenanigans in this 20th Century Fox comedy. Jack Fuller (Kutcher) is a single Manhattanite who can never quite commit to a permanent, long-term relationship and repeatedly hears from his lovers Read More

5/9/08
The Staircase Murders

Actors: Treat Williams, Samaire Armstrong, Kevin Pollak

2007
Heartland [TV Series]

Actors: Treat Williams, Kari Matchett, Chris William Martin, Morena Baccarin, Rockmond Dunbar

2007
The Hideout

Actors: Laura Morante, Rita Tushingham, Burt Young, Treat Williams, Yvonne Scio

Synopsis: A woman making her way back to sanity finds herself living in a house with a history of madness in this thriller. Lei (Laura Morante) is a woman who has spent fifteen years in a mental hospital; eager to start her life over again, she's decided to put her life's savings into opening a restaurant. Read More

2007
Everwood: Season 05

Actors: Treat Williams, Gregory Smith, Emily VanCamp, Chris Pratt, Debra Mooney

2006
Moola

Actors: William Mapother, Daniel Baldwin, Curtis Armstrong, Efren Ramirez, Treat Williams, Charlotte Ross

Synopsis: Directed by former Happy Days cast member Don Most, the comedy Moola stars William Mapother and Daniel Baldwin as best friends who are working together at a business that is failing. When a new venture offers them the promise of success, the duo face a series of challenges that tests their loyalty Read More

2006
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Regina King, Enrique Murciano Jr., William Shatner, Ernie Hudson

Synopsis: FBI agent-turned-reluctant beauty queen Gracie Hart (played by Sandra Bullock) is taking on both bad guys and high glamour again in this sequel to the comedy smash Miss Congeniality. After her undercover mission at the Miss United States pageant becomes public knowledge, Gracie becomes something Read More

3/24/05
Everwood: Season 04

Actors: Treat Williams, Gregory Smith, Emily VanCamp, Chris Pratt, Debra Mooney

2005
Everwood: Season 03

Actors: Treat Williams, Gregory Smith, Emily VanCamp, Chris Pratt, Debra Mooney

2004
Everwood: Season 02

Actors: Treat Williams, Gregory Smith, Emily VanCamp, Chris Pratt, Debra Mooney

2003
Hollywood Ending

Actors: Woody Allen, Téa Leoni, Debra Messing, Mark Rydell, Treat Williams, George Hamilton

Synopsis: A down-on-his luck auteur gets one more chance at the big time -- provided his neuroses don't swallow him whole -- in Woody Allen's 33rd feature release, Hollywood Ending. Allen plays Val Waxman, a one-time cinematic genius who's resorted to taking advertisement work to pay the bills for himself Read More

5/3/02
Gale Force

Actors: Treat Williams

Synopsis: Renegade L.A. detective Sam (Treat Williams) takes a role as a cast member in a reality TV show where he leads a quartet trying to find ten million dollars in buried cash. But Jared (Michael Dudikoff) secretly lands his violent militia on the island in an effort to slay the cast and steal the Read More

2002
Everwood: Season 01

Actors: Treat Williams, Gregory Smith, Emily VanCamp, Chris Pratt, Debra Mooney

2002
Venomous

Actors: Treat Williams

Synopsis: At a secret laboratory in the Mojave Desert, a renegade scientific unit of the U.S. military is working on a top-secret project that involves breeding poisonous rattlesnakes that develop a highly contagious virus. But enemy terrorists, in a botched effort to steal the snakes, destroy the lab Read More

2001
The Fraternity

Actors: Treat Williams, Robin Dunne

Synopsis: One of the most venerated institutions in higher learning also proves to be one of the most devious in this campus thriller, directed by veteran B-movie helmer Sidney J. Furie in the vein of 1999's The Skulls. The Fraternity stars Dawson's Creek and Skulls II alum Robin Dunne as Alex, a young Read More

2001
The Substitute 4: Failure Is Not an Option

Actors: Treat Williams, Angie Everhart, Patrick Kilpatrick

Synopsis: An undercover commando poses as a teacher to root out the neo-Nazis at a military academy in this fourth installment of the tough-love educational/action saga. At the behest of a friend, commando Karl Thomasson (Treat Williams) heads to an Atlanta academy so he can root out the racist skinheads Read More

2000
The Directors: Milos Forman

Synopsis: An acclaimed art house filmmaker in his native Czechoslovakia who found a second act in America, Milos Forman has brought such noted Hollywood fare as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, and Man on the Moon to the silver screen. This video profile highlights his long and winding career Read More

2000
Skeletons in the Closet

Actors: Gordon Clapp, Schuyler Fisk, Treat Williams, Linda Hamilton, Jonathan Jackson

Synopsis: Single father Will Reed (Treat Williams) and his teenaged son Seth (Jonathan Jackson) have increasingly uncomfortable conflicts that go beyond the usual coming-of-age difficulties. Seth has grown reclusive and mysterious as his father does his best to communicate with him. Seth's binge drinking Read More

2000
Critical Mass

2000
Extreme Limits

Actors: Treat Williams, John Beck, Susan Blakely

Synopsis: Renegade adventurer Hunter (John Beck) and his daughter Nadia (Julie St. Claire) discover, in a remote Siberian cave, inventor Nikola Tesla's deadliest device: A machine that can turn human brain waves into explosions, big and small. While returning the doomsday device to civilization by means of Read More

2000
The Deep End of the Ocean

Actors: Gabe Kaplan, Michelle Pfeiffer, Treat Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Jonathan Jackson, Ryan Merriman, John Kapelos

Synopsis: Beth Cappadora (Michelle Pfeiffer), a photographer, is married to Pat (Treat Williams), a restaurateur, and they would seem to have a perfect life in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1988, they have three small children that Beth takes along to her high school reunion in Chicago. While checking in at a Read More

3/12/99
36 Hours to Die

Actors: Treat Williams, Carroll O'Connor, Kim Cattrall

Synopsis: Treat Williams stars in this drama as the owner of a brewing company who refuses to knuckle under when gangsters make threats against him, his business, and his family. With the help of his wife and his uncle, he's able to outsmart and outmuscle the crooks. Carroll O'Connor and Kim Cattrall are Read More

1999
Journey to the Center of the Earth

Actors: Treat Williams, Tushka Bergen, Jeremy London, Bryan Brown, Hugh Keays-Byrne

Synopsis: Like the 1959 theatrical feature of the same name, the two-part cable movie Journey to the Center of the Earth was loosely adapted from the Jules Verne novel (also of the same name). The first part of the TV version faithfully follows the chronology of the earlier film, with famed Read More

1999
The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All

Actors: Treat Williams, Rebecca Staab, Claudia Christian

Synopsis: Treat Williams and Claudia Christian star in this action movie about a mercenary who pays a visit to an old Army buddy who is now a college professor. When the professor's daughter is brutally assaulted by a pack of amoral jocks from the school football team, the mercenary disguises himself as an Read More

1999
Deep Rising

Actors: Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Anthony Heald, Kevin J. O'Connor, Wes Studi

Synopsis: Stephen Somers wrote and directed this $50 million science-fiction action-thriller. Set in the South China Sea, the story has been described as a cross between The Poseidon Adventure, Alien, and Die Hard. On the maiden voyage of the luxury liner Argonautica, pickpocket Trillian (Famke Janssen) is Read More

1998
The Substitute 2: School's Out

Actors: Treat Williams, B.D. Wong, Lawrence Gilliard, Jr.

Synopsis: In this action movie an ex-mercenary poses as a teacher and enters a tough urban school so he can exact revenge upon his brother's killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1998
The Devil's Own

Actors: Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin, Rubén Blades, Treat Williams

Synopsis: A policeman plays Good Samaritan to a visitor from Ireland, only to discover that he has a potentially deadly secret. Belfast-born Frankie McGuire (Brad Pitt) saw his father gunned down by enemy soldiers at the age of eight, and when he grew up he joined the Irish Republican Army, determined that Read More

1997
Human Cargo

Actors: Treat Williams, Stephen Lang, Larry Dane, Sasson Gabai, Ze'ev Revach

Synopsis: This taut made-for-television adventure is based on the true story of an American businessman who loses his passport and exit visa in Saudi Arabia. His dishonest clients exploit this fact and do all they can to hold him captive in their country, thereby forcing the American to take desperate Read More

1997
The Phantom

Actors: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Remar

Synopsis: The first superhero ever, created by Lee Falk in 1936, gets another shot at movie stardom 60 years after achieving fame in comics and serials. Billy Zane stars as Kit Walker, who discovers that he's the 21st in a line of purple-clad African superheroes known as "The Phantom" or, to superstitious Read More

1996
Mulholland Falls

Actors: Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn

Synopsis: Four men just barely on the right side of the law step into a web of danger and corruption in this drama. In the early 1950s, Max Hoover (Nick Nolte) is a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department who leads what's been dubbed "the hat squad," a group of sharp-dressed cops who are ordered to Read More

1996
Cannes Man

Actors: Seymour Cassel, Francesco Quinn, Rebecca Broussard

Synopsis: While at the Cannes Film Festival, producer Sy Learner (Seymour Cassel) makes a bet that he can turn any nobody into a star. A cabbie from New York named Frank (Francesco Quinn) becomes his test case as Sy tries to get Frank noticed amidst the stars and glitter of Cannes. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Read More

1996
The Late Shift

Actors: Kathy Bates, John Michael Higgins, Daniel Roebuck, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley, Jr.

Synopsis: Based on the non-fiction best-seller, The Late Shift is an irreverent, behind-the-scenes look at the conflict over who would succeed Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show, Jay Leno or David Letterman. Beginning with Carson's retirement, the made-for-cable film follows the backstage Read More

1996
In the Shadow of Evil

Synopsis: Hot on the trail of a serial killer known only as "The Roper", police detective Jack Brennan (Treat Williams) is seriously injured in an accident. When he awakens, Brennan can't remember what he has been doing, nor any of the clues he has been following up. As Brennan is nursed back to health by Read More

1995
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

Actors: Don Cheadle, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Jenny McCarthy, Andy Garcia, Christopher Lloyd, William Forsythe, Bill Nunn, Treat Williams

Synopsis: In the mode of Quentin Tarantino, this film, directed by Gary Fleder from a script by Scott Rosenberg, concerns itself with hip, smart gangsters. The film is set in Denver, and the title comes from a Warren Zevon song. A retired, good-hearted gangster named Jimmy the Saint (Andy Garcia) runs a Read More

1995
Johnny's Girl

Actors: Treat Williams, Mia Kirshner, Gloria Reuben

Synopsis: Needing to escape Los Angeles and start a new life fast, petty gangster Johnny Rich moves his family to Alaska and opens a nightclub. Meanwhile his teenage daughter secretly wishes for a more normal family life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1995
Parallel Lives

Synopsis: Directed by Linda Yellen, this made-for-cable movie originally aired on the Showtime network and featured a star-studded cast including Dudley Moore, Liza Minelli, and James Belushi. The plot centers around several fraternity and sorority graduates who have decided to regroup at their alma mater. Read More

1994
Hand Gun

Actors: Treat Williams, Seymour Cassel, Paul Schulze, Toby Huss, Angel Caban

Synopsis: Two estranged brothers discover that family secrets can have a high value on the wrong side of the law in this crime drama. Jack McCallister (Seymour Cassel) is an aging career criminal whose luck is about to give out; Jack and his henchmen are ambushed by police in the midst of a major robbery Read More

1994
Where the Rivers Flow North

Actors: Rip Torn, Tantoo Cardinal, Bill Raymond, Michael J. Fox, John Griesemer

Synopsis: Jay Craven and Don Bredes adapted Howard Frank Mosher's novel about a 1920s Vermont logger who is being pressured to sell his land to a power company so the region can enjoy its first hydroelectric dam. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Tales From the Crypt: None But the Lonely Heart

Actors: Treat Williams, Tom Hanks

Synopsis: Tom Hanks directs Treat Williams, Frances Sternhagen, and Henry Gibson in this darkly humorous Tales from the Crypt episode concerning a cut throat Casanova who weds and murders a succession of wealthy old widows. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
The Water Engine

Synopsis: A Depression-era inventor finds a way of revolutionizing manufacturing technology and then discovers that this invention has its dark side as well. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Till Death Us Do Part

Actors: Arliss Howard, Treat Williams

Synopsis: This made-for-TV drama, adapted from a book by Vincent Bugliosi, is based on a true story about an ex-cop who deceives and murders a number of women for their life insurance benefits. The video release includes scenes not shown in the original. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Deadly Matrimony

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Lisa Eilbacher, Treat Williams, Embeth Davidtz, John M. Jackson

Synopsis: Brian Dennehy makes one of his many TV-movie appearances as Chicago homicide cop John Reed in the two-part Deadly Matrimony. Reed's quarry this time is mob lawyer Treat Williams, who murders his wife and then effectively covers his tracks. The closer Reed comes to the truth, the more he's in Read More

1992
Bonds of Love

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Hal Holbrook, Grace Zabriskie, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: The Bonds of Love in this made-for-TV drama are those forged between divorcee Kelly McGillis and mentally disabled Treat Williams. What begins as a friendship between two lost souls blossoms into a deep and genuine romance. Their wedding plans are challenged by his mother (Grace Zabriskie) and Read More

1992
Final Verdict

Actors: Treat Williams, Glenn Ford, Olivia Burnette, Gretchen Corbett, Ashley Crow

Synopsis: A crucial chapter in the life of famed defense attorney Earl Rogers is re-created in the made-for-TV Final Verdict. Treat Williams stars as Rogers, who matriculates from small-claims court to the judicial Big Time in 1919. Defending a client whom he knows to be guilty, Rogers foments a crisis in Read More

1991
Beyond the Ocean

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Treat Williams, Peter Riegert, Jill Clayburgh, Rebecca Glenn

Synopsis: As nearly as anyone can figure, this first-time directorial effort by the American actor Ben Gazzara was never released in the United States. It was produced in Italy, shot in England, and uses a large cast of big-name American actors. However, reviewers have said that its style owed a bit too Read More

1990
Max and Helen

Actors: Alice Krige, Martin Landau, Treat Williams

Synopsis: Martin Landau plays legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal in this made-for-cable offering from director Philip Saville. Based on Wiesenthal's book, Treat Williams plays Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor relating his story to Simon, who has tracked down the Nazi commandant in charge of the camp Read More

1990
Drug Wars: The Camarena Story

Synopsis: Directed by Brian Gibson, this television mini-series stars Steven Bauer as an undercover DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, whose kidnapping and subsequent murder lead to an intensive investigation. The shocking findings all pointed towards a disturbing connection between the Mexican government Read More

1990
The Third Solution

Actors: Treat Williams, F. Murray Abraham, Danny Aiello, Rita Rusic

Synopsis: In this spooky political thriller, the world seems on the brink of a nuclear holocaust when an old agreement between the Kremlin and the Vatican comes to light. It is an American tourist (at least he seems like a tourist) who exposes the potentially deadly "Third Solution," and now only one Read More

11/3/89
The Heart of Dixie

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen, Phoebe Cates, Treat Williams, Don Michael Paul

Synopsis: Set at a Southern college during the 1950s, three co-eds (Ally Sheedy, Virginia Madsen and Phoebe Cates) re-assess their values in light of the burgeoning civil rights movement. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

8/25/89
Third Degree Burn

Actors: Treat Williams, Virginia Madsen, Richard Masur, CCH Pounder, Michael Chapman

Synopsis: Third Degree Burn, from concept to title, is an HBO-produced Body Heat clone. Treat Williams stars as a tough private eye involved in murder and cuckoldry. Virginia Madsen is the smouldering femme fatale. Here's what the ads for Third Degree Burn promised: "Passion in the third degree. Murder in Read More

1989
Dead Heat

Actors: Treat Williams, Joe Piscopo, Lindsay Frost, Darren McGavin, Vincent Price

Synopsis: Although many genre filmmakers have managed to blend horror and humor with great success, movies employing this formula often run the risk of both elements canceling each other out, resulting in a horror comedy that is neither scary nor funny. Alas, Dead Heat is a textbook example of this kind of Read More

5/6/88
Night of the Sharks

Synopsis: This convoluted actioner is set in beautiful Cancun, Mexico and centers upon a voracious gigantic one-eyed shark, stolen diamonds, a sunken ship, a murdered brother and corporate villains. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

4/1/88
Sweet Lies

Actors: Treat Williams, Joanna Pacula, Julianne Phillips, Laura Manszky, Norbert Weisser

Synopsis: In this comedy, an American insurance investigator goes to Paris to prove that a crippled client's claim is utterly bogus. While there, the detective finds himself seduced by a pair of beautiful women. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Echoes in the Darkness

Synopsis: Based on a best-selling book by Joseph Wambaugh, this is the story of the investigation of the murder of a Philadelphia school teacher and the search for her missing children, which eventually leads the police to two rather eccentric colleagues involved in the dead woman's life. ~ Tana Hobart, All Read More

1987
J. Edgar Hoover

Actors: Treat Williams

Synopsis: Based on the book My 30 Years in Hoover's FBI by William G. Sullivan and William S. Brown, this made-for-cable biopic stars Treat Williams as the infamous Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
The Men's Club

Actors: Roy Scheider, Frank Langella, Harvey Keitel, Treat Williams, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: Based on a 1981 book by Leonard Michaels, focuses on a lawyer (Richard Jordan) who brings together a singularly dysfunctional group of men in a kind of venting, loquacious therapy session. All that talk brings out the worst in everyone. Cavanaugh (Roy Scheider) is a retired baseball star whose Read More

9/19/86
Smooth Talk

Actors: Treat Williams, Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place, Levon Helm, Sarah Inglis, Elizabeth Berridge

Synopsis: Produced for PBS' American Playhouse series, Smooth Talk was given a brief theatrical release before its "official" February 9, 1987 TV debut. Laura Dern plays a teenager anxious to experience the pleasures of sexual contact. Left alone in the family summer cottage when her mother (Mary Kay Read More

1985
Faerie Tale Theatre: The Little Mermaid

Synopsis: Mork and Mindy's Pam Dawber plays the title role in this hour-long adaptation of The Little Mermaid. This is the tale of a beautiful young mermaid with an exquisite singing voice, who falls in love with a human being. To gain "human-hood" herself, she must give up all that she holds dear-including Read More

1984
Flashpoint

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams, Rip Torn, Kevin Conway, Kurtwood Smith, Tess Harper

Synopsis: Bob Logan (Kris Kristofferson) and Ernie Wyatt (Treat Williams) are freewheeling U.S. border patrol officers in a tiny Texas town. Though they're "oil and water" in terms of personality, they're a dynamite team on the job. Coming across a million dollars in stolen money, their relationship Read More

1984
Once Upon a Time in America

Actors: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Though some viewers might be put off by its length, graphic violence, and absence of likable characters, Sergio Leone's final film is also a cinematic masterpiece. Spanning four decades, the film tells the story of David "Noodles" Aaronson (Robert De Niro) and his Jewish pals, chronicling their Read More

1984
A Streetcar Named Desire

Actors: Ann-Margret, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo

Synopsis: Ann Margret looks too healthy to portray Blanche DuBois, the physically and mentally fragile Southern-belle protagonist of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, but we forget this discrepancy five minutes into her marvelous performance. This TV-movie version of Streetcar costars Treat Williams Read More

1984
Dempsey

Actors: Sally Kellerman, Victoria Tennant, Treat Williams

Synopsis: Dempsey is the TV biopic of boxer William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey, a.k.a. Manassa Mauler. The film opens in Utah in 1911, where the teenage Dempsey works out in hopes of cracking the big time. Eight years later, Dempsey enters into his famous bout with reigning champ Jess Willard. From 1919 Read More

1983
Prince of the City

Actors: Treat Williams, Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett, Kenny Marino, James Tolkan

Synopsis: Inspired by a true story, Prince of the City stars Treat Williams as a Manhattan detective who agrees to help the US Department of Justice weed out corruption in the NYPD. Williams agrees on the assurance that he'll never have to turn in a close friend. Wired for sound,