Magana da Williams

**Richard Treat Williams Jr.** (1 ga Disamba, 1951 - 12 ga Yuni, 2023) ɗan wasan kwaikwayo ne na Amurka, wanda aikinsa a kan mataki da fim da talabijin ya kai shekaru hamsin. Ya sami yabo da yawa saboda aikinsa, gami da gabatarwa ga Golden Globe Awards uku, Primetime Emmy Awards guda biyu, da Independent Spirit Award.

Williams ya fara aikinsa a Broadway, yana nuna Danny Zuko a cikin asalin Grease (1972). Bayan ya goyi bayan rawar da ya taka a fina-finai The Ritz da The Eagle Has Landed (duka 1976), ya zama sananne tare da rawar da ya fito a Fim din Miloš Forman na Gashi da kuma fim din Steven Spielberg na tarihi na 1941, dukansu an sake su a shekarar 1979. Ya Mai karin yabo saboda rawar da ya taka a wasan kwaikwayo na Sidney Lumet Prince of the City (1981).

Ya bayyana a wasu fina-finai da yawa a duk lokacin da yake aiki, a matsayin jagora da goyon baya, ciki har da Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Flashpoint (1984), Smooth Talk (1985), The Men's Club (1986), Dead Heat (1988), The Phantom (1996), The Devil's Own (1997), Deep Rising (1998), Substitute franchise (1998-2001), The Deep End of the Ocean (1999), *Miss Congeniality 2* (2005), 127 Hours (2010) da Daily Wire's Run Hide Fight (2020). Daga cikin rawar da ya taka a talabijin, ya fito a matsayin Dr. Andy Brown a cikin jerin wasan kwaikwayo na *Everwood* (2002-2006), wanda ya sami Kyautar Satellite don Mafi kyawun Actor. Ayyukan talabijin na gaba sun haɗa da White Collar (2012-2013), Chicago Fire (2013-2018), da *Blue Bloods* (2016-2023). Ya kuma fito a matsayin Mick O'Brien a cikin jerin Hallmark Chesapeake Shores (2016-2022) kuma a matsayin Bill Paley a cikin miniseries na FX Feud: Capote vs. The Swans (2024), wanda shine bayyanarsa ta ƙarshe a allon.

A duk lokacin da yake aiki, Williams ya koma filin *Wauta* na Broadway, yana fitowa a cikin shirye-shiryen Over Here!  (1974), *Sau ɗaya a Rayuwa* (1978), Pirates of Penzance (1981), Wasikun Ƙauna (1989), da kuma Follies (2001).

## Rayuwa ta farko da ilimi
An haifi Williams a Stamford, Connecticut,  a ranar 1 ga Disamba, 1951, ɗan Marian (née Andrew), dillalin kayan tarihi, da Richard Norman Williams, babban jami'in kamfanoni.  Ya koma tare da iyalinsa zuwa Rowayton, Connecticut, lokacin da yake dan shekara uku. Kakan mahaifiyarsa shi ne William Henry Barnum, Sanata na Amurka daga Connecticut kuma dan uwan na uku na mai wasan kwaikwayo P. T. Barnum .  Williams dangi ne mai nisa na Robert Treat Pain - wanda ya sanya hannu kan Sanarwar 'yancin kai - da Herbert Hoover, Shugaban Amurka na 31.

Williams ya buga kwallon kafa a makarantar sakandare  da kwaleji.  Ya kammala karatu daga Kent School a Connecticut da Franklin & Marshall College a Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Yayinda yake matashi, ya yi aiki a makarantar sakandare da wasan kwaikwayo na gida, kuma ya fara tunani sosai game da aikin wasan kwaikwayo a lokacin shekara ta farko ta kwaleji: "Ina son kwallon kafa sosai, amma ban tsammanin za ku iya zama dan wasa ba kuma ku kasance a cikin kamfanin wasan kwaikwayo a lokaci guda ... Na fara samun mahimmanci game da koyon yadda zai yiwu game da sana'ar wasan kwaikwayo a cikin shekara ta farko. " A wani lokaci, yana yin wasan kwaikwayo a kwaleji uku a lokaci guda: "a wasan kwaikwayo, Shakespeare da kiɗa".

## Ayyuka

### 1972-1979: Ayyukan mataki da ci gaban fim
Williams ya kaddamar da sana'arsa ta wasan kwaikwayo a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na kiɗa; Ya fito a matsayin Utah a cikin Sherman Brothers' musical Over Here!.   Daga nan sai ya fito a cikin Grease on Broadway a matsayin jagora na Danny Zuko na tsawon shekaru uku, daga baya ya ce game da kwarewar, "Na girma ina koyon dukkan waƙoƙin daga West Side Story, don haka *A nan!* abin da babban yarjejeniya 'Broadway' ya kasance. Lokacin da na *Mai* ƙaramin ɗaki na farko a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Royale, [Na] yi tunani, 'Na zo. Na zo nan. Wannan yana da kyau!' "

A shekara ta 1975, Williams ya fara fim dinsa na farko tare da rawar da ya taka a cikin fim din Deadly Hero . Ya sami sanarwa mai kyau a shekara mai zuwa don nuna Michael Brick - mai bincike mai zaman kansa mai murya - a cikin The *Ritz*,  wani wasan kwaikwayo mai ban dariya wanda ya danganci wasan kwaikwayon wannan sunan, kuma ya bayyana a wani karamin ɓangare a cikin fim din yaƙi na Burtaniya The Eagle Has Landed (1976). Williams ya zo ga hankalin duniya a shekara ta 1979 lokacin da ya fito a matsayin George Berger - babban memba na ƙungiyar yara masu furanni - a cikin fim din Miloš Forman Hair, wanda ya dogara da wasan kwaikwayo na 1967. A rubuce-rubuce don Sioux City Journal, mai sukar Bob Thomas ya kira shi "wani jirgin da ba a saba ** ba na tunanin kirkirar da ke fadada girman fim din" kuma ya yi imanin cewa aikin Williams "ba zai iya zama mafi kyau ba". A cikin bita mai ban sha'awa ga The New York Times, Janet Maslin ta rubuta, "Kamar yadda sunansa zai iya nunawa, Treat Williams yana daya daga cikin abubuwan da Hair ya bayar ...  ne kawai daga cikin 'yan wasan da ke nuna ruhun farin ciki wanda asalin [samarwa] ke nufin ya zama mai daraja". Ayyukan Williams sun ba shi gabatarwa don kyautar Golden Globe don New Star of the Year .  Fim dinsa na biyu na shekara ta 1979 shi ne fim din Steven Spielberg wanda ba a sake dubawa ba a shekara ta *1941*,  inda ya buga Corporal Chuck Sitarski .