Biography
Richard Treat Williams (December 1, 1951 – June 12, 2023) was an American actor, author, and aviator. Williams' accolades include nominations for two Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globes, a Primetime Emmy, two Satellite Awards, and an Independent Spirit Award. He appeared in over 75 films and several television series. Williams' career included numerous stage roles. On June 12, 2023, Williams was involved in a motorcycle crash on Vermont Route 30, near Dorset. According to the Vermon...
Known For
Complete Filmography

American Outlaws
2023
as Agent Jameison R. Donovan
Facing the possibility of prison - and in search of an idealized freedom - 3 siblings take matters in to their own hands with a cross country crime sp...

The Christmas House 2: Deck Those Halls
2021
as Bill Mitchell
The Mitchell brothers compete to see who can create the best Christmas House.

12 Mighty Orphans
2021
as Amon Carter
Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depres...

Run Hide Fight
2021
as Sheriff Tarsy
A 17-year-old girl uses her wits, survival skills, and compassion to fight for her life, and those of her fellow classmates, against a group of live-s...

The Christmas House
2020
as Bill Mitchell
Working through some difficult decisions, Mitchell family matriarch Phylis and patriarch Bill, have summoned their two grown sons – TV stars Mike Mitc...

Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square
2020
as Carl Pellam
A rich and nasty woman returns to her hometown to evict everyone but discovers the true meaning of Christmas thanks to the local townsfolk – and an ac...

The Great Alaskan Race
2019
as Dr. Welch
In 1925, a group of brave mushers travel 700 miles to save the small children of Nome, Alaska from a deadly epidemic.

Drunk Parents
2019
as Dan Henderson
Two drunk parents attempt to hide their ever increasing financial difficulties from their daughter and social circle through elaborate neighborhood sc...

Second Act
2018
as Anderson Clarke
Value Shop assistant manager Maya Vargas wants only one thing for her 43rd birthday -- a promotion. While her résumé may not scream upper management, ...

The Etruscan Smile
2018
as Frank Barron
Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman, reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island and travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. ...

Rocky Mountain Christmas
2017
as Roy
Sarah Davis heads to her uncle’s struggling ranch to escape New York and the spotlight from a recent breakup. Returning home for the first time since ...

Confirmation
2016
as Ted Kennedy
Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States' Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had...

The Congressman
2016
as Charlie Winship
Maine Congressman Charlie Winship has had a bad day. After being caught on video failing to stand and recite the pledge of allegiance, he knocks out a...

In the Blood
2014
as Robert Grant
When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.

Barefoot
2014
as Jason Wheeler
The "black sheep" son of a wealthy family meets a young psychiatric patient who's been raised in isolation her entire life. He takes the naive young w...

Operation Rogue
2014
as General Hank Wallace
Deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, a terrorist organization has stolen materials to create a dangerous chemical bomb. It is up to Captain Max Rand...

Age of Dinosaurs
2013
as Gabe
Using breakthrough flesh-regeneration technology, a biotech firm creates a set of living dinosaurs. But when the creatures escape their museum exhibit...

Reaching for the Moon
2013
as Robert Lowell
In 1951, New York poet Elizabeth Bishop travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit Mary, a college friend. The shy Elizabeth is overwhelmed by Brazilian sensu...

Deadfall
2012
as Becker
A thriller that follows two siblings who decide to fend for themselves in the wake of a botched casino heist, and their unlikely reunion during anothe...

Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader
2012
as Dr. Grey
Aspiring college cheerleader, Cassie Stratford consumes an experimental drug that grants her beauty and enough athletic ability to make the cheer squa...

Beyond the Blackboard
2011
as Dr. Warren
Inspired by a true story, “Beyond the Blackboard” is about a 24-year-old first-time teacher who makes a difference in the lives of the homeless childr...

Mask Maker
2011
as Mr. Tucker
A lucky couple hits the jackpot when they purchase a 19th century plantation home for pennies on the dollar. Determined to get rich quick, they invite...

Oba: The Last Samurai
2011
as Colonel Wessinger
In 1944, the American military lands on the shores of Saipan. Refusing to commit suicide with his superiors or be forced into camps for prisoners of w...

A Little Bit of Heaven
2011
as Jack Corbett
A guarded woman finds out she's dying of cancer but, when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death.

Martino's Summer
2010
as Captain Jeff Clark
The story takes place in the summer of 1980 in Brindisi, Italy. Martino is a young man whose father isn't giving him enough attention. His older broth...

127 Hours
2010
as Aron's Dad
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an i...

Howl
2010
as Mark Schorer
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the...

Safe Harbor
2009
as Doug
Doug and Robbie are about to set sail on a long trip when they unexpectedly find themselves foster parenting a group of troubled teenage boys. The exp...

Chasing a Dream
2009
as Gary Stiles
When high school football player Cam Stiles loses his best friend, he decides to drop football and focus on attaining his friend's goal of running a ...

Front of the Class
2008
as Norman Cohen
A boy with Tourette's syndrome overcomes criticism and discrimination to achieve his dream of becoming a teacher.

What Happens in Vegas
2008
as Jack Fuller Sr.
During a wild vacation in Las Vegas, career woman Joy McNally and playboy Jack Fuller come to the sober realization that they have married each other ...

The Hideout
2007
as Padre Amy
A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years rec...

Moola
2007
as Luis Gordon
Just as the business which Steve helped create, American Lightsticks, is on the brink of collapse, a huge 'deal' suddenly materializes, and he and his...

The Staircase Murders
2007
as Michael Peterson
After he calls 911 to report his wife's accident, successful novelist and aspiring politician Michael Peterson becomes the prime suspect in her allege...

Prince of the City: The Real Story
2007
as Self / Daniel Ciello
The true story behind the Prince of the City.

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
2005
as Walter Collins
After her triumph at the Miss United States pageant, FBI agent Gracie Hart becomes an overnight sensation -- and the new "face of the FBI". But it's t...

The Fraternity
2002
as Mr. Spencer Runcie
Some students at Runcie prep school form an elite club. The group is implicated in a cheating scandal and one of the club members dies mysteriously. A...

Hollywood Ending
2002
as Hal
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman fi...

Guilty Hearts
2002
as Stephen Carrow
Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the ...

Venomous
2002
as Dr. David Henning
Mutant snakes survived a terrorist attack on a government laboratory, and they now threaten the town of Santa Mira Springs, California. Seismic activi...

Gale Force
2002
as Sam Garrett
Renegade L.A. detective Sam (Williams) takes a role as a cast member in a reality TV show where he leads a quartet trying to find ten million dollars ...

Skeletons in the Closet
2001
as Will
A father suspects his son to be a murderer...or is he just paranoid and trying to cover up his own past which involves his wife being killed in a fire...

Critical Mass
2001
as Mike Jeffers
Jeffers works security at a nuclear power plant. The plant is being decommissioned, and a politician is touring the plant and videotaping his comments...

The Substitute: Failure Is Not an Option
2001
as Karl Thomasson
A former mercenary joins a military academy as a teacher. He soon discovers a neo-Nazi group, code-named Werewolves, formed among the cadets. He also ...

Crash Point Zero
2000
as Agent Jason Ross
A scientist recovers a powerful weapon created by inventor Nicola Tesla in the early twentieth century. Now, the plane carrying the device and a dispa...

The Directors: Milos Forman
2000
as Self
Documentary about the Chzech director, Milos Forman.

The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All
1999
as Karl Thomasson
At a college visit to a war buddy's professor daughter, mercenary Treat Williams finds her brutally beaten. He then poses as a teacher to teach a less...

36 Hours to Die
1999
as Noah Stone
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 busines...

The Deep End of the Ocean
1999
as Pat Cappadora
A three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has ...

The Substitute 2: School's Out
1998
as Karl Thomasson
When teacher Randall Thomasson is killed during a carjacking, an unexpected visitor shows up at his funeral - his estranged brother, Karl Thomasson. A...

Escape: Human Cargo
1998
as John McDonald
An American entrepreneur is closing a deal in Saudi Arabia in 1977. After a fallout with his influential Saudi partners, they have him arrested. Due t...

Deep Rising
1998
as John Finnegan
A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, t...

Cannes Man
1997
as Self
Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab d...

The Devil's Own
1997
as Billy Burke
Frankie McGuire, one of the IRA's deadliest assassins, draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. But when he is sent to the U.S. to bu...

The Phantom
1996
as Xander Drax
The 21st successor to the role of Bengalla's resident superhero must travel to New York to prevent a rich madman from obtaining three magic skulls tha...

Mulholland Falls
1996
as Fitzgerald
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.

The Late Shift
1996
as Michael Ovitz
David Letterman vies with Jay Leno and his manager to succeed Johnny Carson, retiring from "The Tonight Show."
The Phantom: The Man, the Myth, the Legend
1996
as Self
HBO First Look's episode on The Phantom

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
1995
as Critical Bill
Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

Johnny's Girl
1995
as Johnny Ross
A father gives his daughter an unorthodox upbringing on the fringes of the Alaskan underworld in the 1960's and 70's.

In the Shadow of Evil
1995
as Jack Brenner
Jack Brenner is a hot-shot cop on the trail of a serial killer known as The Roper. Just as he's getting close to catching the killer, he is injured an...
Texan
1994
Director
A retired pilot finds out his young wife is lying to him, hiding a meeting with a military man, withdrawing money from the bank...

Hand Gun
1994
as George McCallister
Jack is in the midst of a major robbery, which leaves him injured and his accomplices dead. Jack manages to hide the $500,000 from the robbery before ...

Parallel Lives
1994
as Peter Barnum
A college reunion turns into a tangled web of passion, romance and intrigue as old friends and enemies catch up with each other's lives. Includes a lo...

Vault of Horror I
1994
as Howard Prince
A compilation of three episodes from the Tales from the Crypt series ("Carrion Death", "None but the lonely heart" and "Abra Cadaver") with some famou...

Where the Rivers Flow North
1993
as Champ's Manager
Sleeper with a top notch cast in the story of a lone wolf logger who fights developers, bankers and the modern world to maintain his way of life.

Bonds of Love
1993
as Robby Smith
A divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relationship.

Bonds of Love
1993
Executive Producer
A divorced woman falls in love with a mentally-disabled man, but his family objects to their relationship.

Deadly Matrimony
1992
as Alan Masters
Alan Masters is a despicable businessman with his hands in organized crime. He marries Diane, a kind and gentle woman, and abuses and batters her vici...

The Water Engine
1992
as Dave Murray
In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to get it patented, he is first offered a ridiculously ...

Till Death Us Do Part
1992
as Alan Palliko
This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put Ch...

Final Verdict
1991
as Earl Rogers
A trial lawyer risks losing his family and career when he defends a client who he knows to be guilty as charged.

Beyond the Ocean
1990
as Robert Laidlow
A big-time businessman throws in the towel on his company and high-tails it out to Bali just as its stock is about to be publicly offered. There, he t...

Max and Helen
1990
as Max Rosenberg
In trying to bring a former concentration camp commandant to justice, Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal uncovers the tragic story of two lovers separated b...

Heart of Dixie
1989
as Hoyt Cunningham
In the 1950s, three young sorority women re-assess their values in light of the burgeoning civil rights movement.

Third Degree Burn
1989
as Scott Weston
A down-and-out private eye (Treat Williams) gets too close to the wife (Virginia Madsen) of a rich man (Richard Masur) soon found dead.

Dead Heat
1988
as Det. Roger Mortis
Detective Roger Mortis is killed in action while investigating a string of mysterious robberies: until he's brought back from the dead with a chemical...

The Third Solution
1988
as Mark Hendrix
The Roman Catholic Pope is planning a reconciliatory meeting with the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, an event awaited for many generations. Bu...

The Night of the Sharks
1988
as David Ziegler
David must fight for his life against the gangsters who killed his brother for a CD filled with proof of their illegal activities. When David gets pos...

Sweet Lies
1987
as Peter
An insurance investigator is visiting Paris on assignment. He is soon made the object of a seduction bet amongst three ladies. Problems arise when the...

Echoes in the Darkness
1987
as Rick Guida
Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Townshi...

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.

The Little Mermaid
1987
as Prince Andrew
A mermaid princess is willing to sacrifice anything for love.

J. Edgar Hoover
1987
as J. Edgar Hoover
He battled the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, encouraged McCarthy and single-handedly changed the course of history. Hired by F.D.R. to be the direc...

The Men's Club
1986
as Terry
Seven men have a group session and share their feelings on women, love, life and work.

Smooth Talk
1985
as Arnold Friend
Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered b...

Night of 100 Stars II
1985
as Self
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was t...

Once Upon a Time in America
1984
as James Conway O'Donnell
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the gh...

Flashpoint
1984
as Ernie Wyatt
Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. Before they decide whether...

A Streetcar Named Desire
1984
as Stanley Kowalski
As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unfo...

Dempsey
1983
as Jack Dempsey
Nominated for two primetime Emmy Awards in 1984, this made-for-TV movie follows the true story of American boxer Jack Dempsey, who became a media sens...

Neapolitan Story
1983
as Ferdinando detto Giugiù
The last wish of Vito Fonseca dying is to be buried in his native Naples. And so it is. When the young and beautiful wife Fanny arrives in Naples, she...

Night of 100 Stars
1982
as Self
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City ...
James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy
1981
as Narrator
During the filming of Ragtime, the 81-year old Cagney talks about his career. Cagney tells us about becoming a dancer and meeting his wife, his route ...

The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper
1981
as D.B. Cooper
A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains. Has Cooper succeeded in following a ...

Prince of the City
1981
as Daniel Ciello
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as lo...
Why Would I Lie?
1980
as Cletus
Cletus is a compulsive liar. He prefers the term 'fabrication' to lie though. When Cletus becomes a social worker he's assigned the case of a boy call...

The Empire Strikes Back
1980
as Echo Base Trooper (uncredited)
The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Dar...

1941
1979
as Cpl. Chuck 'Stretch' Sitarski
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

Hair
1979
as George Berger
Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his...

The Eagle Has Landed
1976
as Captain Clark
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious sc...

Marathon Man
1976
as Central Park Jogger (uncredited)
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.

The Ritz
1976
as Michael Brick
To escape from a mobster, businessman Gaetano Proclo orders a cab driver to take him to a place where he can't be found. Unfortunately for Gaetano, th...

Deadly Hero
1975
as Billings
Officer Lacy is an 18-year veteran of the New York Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent tend...