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his career never worked out


sorry

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Harsh. He had his moments. He gave an absolute career best performance in Prince Of The City.

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DEEP RISING AND REPLACING BERENGER IN THE SUBSTITUTE SEQUELS...THOSE ARE MY THOUGHTS...OOH AND HAIR.🙂

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You must've not seen The Substitute 2, 3 and 4. Lol

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Why isn't Treat Williams a more famous actor than he is now?

https://www.quora.com/Why-isnt-Treat-Williams-a-more-famous-actor-than-he-is-now/answer/Jon-Mixon-1

1. He didn’t hit at the box office - His two biggest roles in the 1980s (Prince of the City and The Pursuit of D. B. Cooper) both bombed at the box office and Williams seemed to retreat back to the stage and character roles instead of slugging it out in Hollywood.

2. He got a late start - Williams was born in 1951 and so according to Hollywood “norms” he should have been cast in leading roles in his mid-20s which would have been in mid-1970s. Unfortunately for Williams, he didn’t get leading roles until the 1980s and that seems to have been too late for him to become a major star.

3. The Billy Zane Syndrome - Some male actors are so handsome that it seems likely that they are unlikely to be cast as doing so might overshadow the lead. Williams, like actor Billy Zane, is a strikingly handsome man and in the insecure hellscape that is Hollywood that likely prevented him from receiving a number of roles that he might have normally.

4. Bad career choices - Williams’ career after the mid-1980s is littered with some pretty crappy films. While some weren’t too bad (Deep Rising being one of them) the majority were not only critical bombs, but they were also bombs at the box office. Since we have to assume that Williams had choices, he seems to have made a staggering of bad ones.

4. His only franchise is shitless - Williams took over the role of a former mercenary turned educator in The Substitute franchise from Tom Berenger (who in retrospect probably should have kept it as his other franchise Sniper, which co-starred Billy Zane, turned out to be a dead-end) and then managed to drive it into the ground. Had Williams been able to land another franchise (Deep Rising seemed to be primed to be one before it bombed) he would be more famous now than he is.

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He probably believed in Jesus and not raping kids. Stupid sonnavbitch.

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Sure it did.

He was excellent in a lot of great movies.
He has left a legacy of fine performances.

Maybe he never made the money guys like Burt Reynolds or Mel Gibson or Johnny Depp etc did.
But I would argue he was just as good or better than those guys.

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