Actor Treat Williams dies

Actor Treat Williams, who starred in the film musical Hair and the US television series Everwood, has died in a road accident aged 71, reports BBC.

Williams was thrown from his motorbike in Vermont on Monday after being hit by an SUV turning left, police said.

He was airlifted to hospital with critical injuries, but pronounced dead on arrival.

The actor recorded over 130 screen credits in a career that spanned almost 50 years.

Following his 1979 breakthrough in Hair as hippie George Berger, Williams appeared in Steven Spielberg’s 1941 (1979), Once Upon A Time In America (1984), Dead Heat (1988), Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead (1995) and Deep Rising (1998).