TREAT WILLIAMS (1951-2023)

MY MOST INDELIBLE memory of Treat Williams occurred in 2017 during a cast reunion of the tear-jerking WB soap Everwood (2002–06) in Beverly Hills.

- Matt Roush

He gave a paternal hug to Vivien Cardone, who played his TV daughter Delia, when she recalled how he had volunteered to be her “temporary father” on location in Utah, where he was missing his own family. “Of all the things I’ve done…this is right there at the top,” he said of Everwood.

There was plenty of competition. The actor, who died at 71 on June 12 in a motorcycle accident near his Vermont home, enjoyed a prolific career that began in Broadway musicals (a replacement Danny Zuko in Grease). He soon began starring in movies, including the 1979 film version of