Also, if you're in a TV show that does turn out to be very successful, you then can do whatever you want to do in theater for a very long time.
And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.
Bambi can't act. Bambi had major attitude.
Basically that was the moment when I thought I'd like to do this forever. I never changed my mind.
But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.
Everwood is a place. And what it is about is a neurosurgeon, a famous and successful New York neurosurgeon, loses his wife in a tragic car accident and decides to move his two children to a small town in Colorado.
For the first time in a while, I must be honest, I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day.
Honestly, I didn't know I was a role model.
I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.
I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.
I couldn't imagine my life being any more successful than it is now.
I define success as being comfortable with yourself and your life. And that is about as good as it gets, really.
I don't think of myself as a role model.
I don't usually experience that because there are few people who intimidate me, but Woody was one of them.
I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful children, and every day I am paid to do what I love.
I just love working with actors in general.
I think families find a dynamic that works for them.
I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey.
I'm starting a new television series called Everwood for the WB but, hopefully, the hiatus will afford me the opportunity to do more theater.
It is easy to do a straight drama.
It is very easy when the writing is so good to find the emotional truth, but that is what I have spent years training to do.
It's exciting to do something like this because usually what happens in theater is that, after the first or second reading of a play, it falls apart completely and the rehearsal process is such that you begin to pick up the pieces and put it back together again.
Most characters for actors like me are not very compelling because they're totally together and they don't have complicated lives.
My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.
My wife, children and I live in New York City, and that's going to be a learning process. I'm going to commute the first season.
Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.
The biggest challenge for me was getting through my first day. I had to get over working with an icon like Woody.
The day my son was born my life changed completely.
The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.
This is the kind of work I've aspired to my whole career.
Well, I've got two small children and this is a very important time for me to be around them.
Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot.
Yes, I love working with young actors.
You can't imagine how exciting it was to know you are going to go to work and do a comic scene with Woody Allen.
Treat Williams' parents are Richard Norman Williams, and Marion Williams.
Treat Williams appeared in: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, in 1980, as Jess Allashane (Echo Base trooper) / Jerrol Blendin (Cloud City trooper). His roles were uncredited.
Treat Williams is a TV, cinema and theater well known actor: He starred in theater since 1976, in cinema since 1971 and on TV since 1987.
Ever since 1979, when Treat Williams first starred in the movie Hair, he participated in more than 40 films.
Treat Williams earned his third Golden Globe nomination for his performance as Stanley Kowalski in the television presentation of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Treat Williams directed Showtime's Texan for the Prestigious Chanticleer series. He won two festival awards fot that task: Best New Director at the Aspen Short Film Festival, and Best Short Film at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival.
Treat Williams also starred as Berger in Milos Forman's screen version of the Broadway musical Hair.
Treat Williams and planes: He is a certified Flight Instructor, rated in single and multi-engine airplanes and helicopters. Moreover, in 2003, he completed two weeks of training to qualify for flying jet engine planes.
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Treat Williams is married to Pamela Van Sant since 1988. They have two children: Elinor and Gil Williams.
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