An American film, stage and television actor best known to have starred in the popular television series Everwood from 2002 to 2006.
Williams came to world attention when he starred in the Miloš Forman film Hair in 1979.
Since that time he has gone on to appear in over seventy-five films and several television series, including, most notably, 1941 and 1979, Once Upon A Time In America in 1984, Dead Heat in 1988, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead in 1995 and Deep Rising in 1998.
In 1996, he played bad guy Xander Drax in Paramount's big budget comic book adaptation, The Phantom, where he did his best to take over the world and kill Billy Zane's mysterious superhero.
Williams' acting career includes numerous stage roles. He won a Drama League Award for his work in the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Follies, and another for starring in the off-Broadway production of Captains Courageous . Other notable Broadway shows include Grease, the Sherman Brothers' Over Here!, Once in a Lifetime, Pirates of Penzance and Love Letters, and off-Broadway, he has appeared in David Mamet's Oleanna and Oh, Hell at Lincoln Center, Some Men Need Help, and Randy Newman's Maybe I'm Doing It Wrong. He premiered the Los Angeles production of Love Letters and appeared in War Letters at the Canon Theatre in Los Angeles.
Williams has recently made several guest appearances on the ABC drama Brothers & Sisters playing the role of David Morton, a friend and potential suitor of the Sally Field character.
Williams currently stars in a series on the TNT titled Heartland in which he plays, Nathaniel Grant, the head of a Pittsburgh organ transplant center.
He also starred in a Lifetime movie called the Staircase Murders, which aired April 15, 2007.
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