DORSET, Vt. (AP) โ Actor Treat Williams, whose nearly 50-year career included starring roles in the TV series "Everwood" and the movie "Hair," died Monday after a motorcycle crash in Vermont, state police said. He was 71.
Shortly before 5 p.m., a Honda SUV was turning left into a parking lot when it collided with Williams' motorcycle in the town of Dorset, according to a statement from Vermont State Police.
"Williams was unable to avoid a collision and was thrown from his motorcycle. He suffered critical injuries and was airlifted to Albany Medical Center in Albany, New York, where he was pronounced dead," according to the statement.
Williams was wearing a helmet, police said.
FILE - Actor Treat Williams attends the world premiere of "Second Act" in New York on Dec. 12, 2018. Williams, whose nearly 50-year career included starring roles in the TV series โEverwoodโ and the movie โHair,โ died Monday, June 12, 2023, after a motorcycle crash in Vermont, state police said. He was 71. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
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The SUV's driver received minor injuries and wasn't hospitalized. He had signaled the turn and wasn't immediately detained although the crash investigation continued, police said.
Williams, whose full name was Richard Treat Williams, lived in Manchester Center in southern Vermont, police said.
FILE - Actor Treat Williams poses for a photo in Pasadena, Calif., on July 13, 2002. Williams, whose nearly 50-year career included starring roles in the TV series โEverwoodโ and the movie โHair,โ died Monday, June 12, 2023, after a motorcycle crash in Vermont, state police said. He was 71. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
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His agent, Barry McPherson, also confirmed the actor's death.
"I'm just devastated. He was the nicest guy. He was so talented," McPherson told People magazine.
"He was an actor's actor," McPherson said. "Filmmakers loved him. He's been the heart of the Hollywood since the late 1970s."
The Connecticut-born Williams made his movie debut in 1975 as a police officer in the movie "Deadly Hero" and went on to appear in more than 120 TV and film roles, including the movies "The Eagle Has Landed," "Prince of the City" and "Once Upon a Time in America."
He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role as hippie leader George Berger in the 1979 movie version of the hit musical "Hair."
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He appeared in dozens of television shows but was perhaps best known for his starring role from 2002 to 2006 in "Everwood" as Dr. Andrew Brown, a widowed brain surgeon from Manhattan who moves with his two children to the Colorado mountain town of that name.
Williams also had a recurring role as Lenny Ross on the TV show "Blue Bloods."
FILE - U.S. actors, from left, Don Dacus, Annie Golden, Treat Williams, Beverly d'Angelo, director Milos Forman, and Cheryl Barnes arrive for the presentation of "Hair" during the 32nd Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France May 10, 1979. Williams, whose nearly 50-year career included starring roles in the TV series โEverwoodโ and the movie โHair,โ died Monday, June 12, 2023, after a motorcycle crash in Vermont, state police said. He was 71. (AP Photo/Levy, File)
Levy
Williams' stage appearances included Broadway shows, including "Grease" and "Pirates of Penzance."
Colleagues and friends praised Williams as kind, generous and creative.
"Treat and I spent months in Rome filming "Once Upon a Time in America,'" actor James Woods tweeted. "It can be pretty lonely on the road during a long shoot, but his resilient good cheer and sense of humor was a Godsend. I really loved him and am devastated that he's gone."
"Working with Treat Williams in Mamet's "Speed the Plow" at Williamstown in '91 was the start of great friendship," tweeted writer, director and producer Justine Bateman. "Damn it, damn it. Treat, you were the best. Love you."
"Treat Williams was a passionate, adventurous, creative man," actor Wendell Pierce tweeted. "In a short period of time, he quickly befriended me & his adventurous spirit was infectious. We worked on just 1 film together but occasionally connected over the years. Kind and generous with advice and support. RIP."
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Dec 27, 2023
John Beasley , the veteran character actor who played a kindly school bus driver on the TV drama โEverwoodโ and appeared in dozens of films dating back to the 1980s, died May 30, 2023. He was 79. Beasley played an assistant coach in the 1993 football film โRudyโ and a retired preacher in 1997's โThe Apostle,โ co-starring and directed by Robert Duvall.
AP file, 2017
Cynthia Weil
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Dec 27, 2023
Cynthia Weil , a Grammy-winning lyricist of notable range and endurance who enjoyed a decades-long partnership with husband Barry Mann and helped write "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," "On Broadway," "Walking in the Rain" and dozens of other hits, died June 1, 2023, at age 82.
AP file, 2010
Astrud Gilberto
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Dec 27, 2023
Astrud Gilberto , the Brazilian singer, songwriter and entertainer whose off-hand, English-language cameo on โThe Girl from Ipanemaโ made her a worldwide voice of bossa nova, died June 5, 2023, at age 83.
AP file, 1981
The Iron Sheik
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Dec 27, 2023
The Iron Sheik , a former pro wrestler who relished playing a burly, bombastic villain in 1980s battles with some of the sport's biggest stars and later became a popular Twitter personality, died June 7, 2023. He was 81. During his pro wrestling career, he donned curled boots and used the โCamel Clutchโ as his finishing move during individual and tag team clashes in which he played the role of an anti-American heel for the WWF, which later became the WWE.
AP file, 2009
Pat Robertson
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Dec 27, 2023
Pat Robertson , a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, died June 8, 2023. He was 93. For more than a half-century, Robertson was a familiar presence in American living rooms, known for his โ700 Clubโ television show, and in later years, his televised pronouncements of Godโs judgment, blaming natural disasters on everything from homosexuality to the teaching of evolution.
AP file, 2015
Tori Bowie
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Dec 27, 2023
U.S. Olympic champion sprinter Tori Bowie died May 2, 2023, from complications of childbirth, according to an autopsy report. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Bowie won silver in the 100 and bronze in the 200. She then ran the anchor leg on a 4x100 team with Tianna Bartoletta, Allyson Felix and English Gardner to take gold.
AP file, 2017
Ted Kaczynski
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Dec 27, 2023
Theodore โTedโ Kaczynski , the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died June 10, 2023. He was 81. Branded the โUnabomberโ by the FBI, Kaczynski died by suicide at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina.
AP file, 1996
Treat Williams
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Dec 27, 2023
Actor Treat Williams , whose nearly 50-year career included starring roles in the TV series โEverwoodโ and the movie โHair,โ died June 12, 2023, after a motorcycle crash in Vermont. He was 71. He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role as hippie leader George Berger in the 1979 movie version of the hit musical โHair.โ
AP file, 2018
Silvio Berlusconi
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Dec 27, 2023
Silvio Berlusconi , the boastful billionaire media mogul who was Italy's longest-serving premier despite scandals over his sex-fueled parties and allegations of corruption, died June 12, 2023. He was 86. A onetime cruise ship crooner, Berlusconi used his television networks and immense wealth to launch his long political career, inspiring both loyalty and loathing.
AP file, 2021
Daniel Ellsberg
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Dec 27, 2023
Daniel Ellsberg , the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliation by President Richard Nixon that helped lead to his resignation, died June 16, 2023. He was 92.
AP file, 1973
Sheldon Harnick
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Dec 27, 2023
Tony- and Grammy Award-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick , who with composer Jerry Bock made up the premier musical-theater songwriting duos of the 1950s and 1960s with shows such as "Fiddler on the Roof," "Fiorello!" and "The Apple Tree," died June 23, 2023. He was 99.
AP file, 2016
John Goodenough
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Dec 27, 2023
John Goodenough , who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work developing the lithium-ion battery that transformed technology with rechargeable power for devices ranging from cellphones, computers, and pacemakers to electric cars, died June 25, 2023, at age 100.
AP file, 2019
Christine King Farris
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Dec 27, 2023
Christine King Farris , the last living sibling of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died June 29, 2023. She was 95. For decades after her brother's assassination in 1968, Farris worked along with his widow, Coretta Scott King, to preserve and promote his legacy. But unlike her high-profile sister-in-law, Farris' activism โ and grief โ was often behind the scenes.
AP file, 2015
Julian Sands
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Dec 27, 2023
Actor Julian Sands , who starred in several Oscar-nominated films in the late 1980s and '90s including โA Room With a Viewโ and โLeaving Las Vegas,โ was found dead on a Southern California mountain in June 2023, five months after he disappeared while hiking. He was 65. Sands, who was born, raised and began acting in England, worked constantly in film and television, amassing more than 150 credits in a 40-year career. During a 10-year span from 1985 to 1995, he played major roles in a series of acclaimed films.
AP file, 2019
Alan Arkin
Updated
Dec 27, 2023
Alan Arkin , the wry character actor who demonstrated his versatility in everything from farcical comedy to chilling drama as he received four Academy Award nominations and won an Oscar in 2007 for "Little Miss Sunshine," has died. He was 89. A member of Chicago's famed Second City comedy troupe, Arkin was an immediate success in movies with the Cold War spoof "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming" and peaked late in life with his win as best supporting actor for the surprise 2006 hit "Little Miss Sunshine.โ
AP file, 2011