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Mourning for US actor Treat Williams ("Hair," "Chesapeake Shores")! The 71-year-old died on Monday afternoon in a motorcycle accident in the US state of Vermont.

Treat Williams in 1981

According to police, an SUV turned left into the driveway of a parking lot and collided with the actor's bike. "Williams was unable to avoid the collision and was thrown from his motorcycle," a police statement said. "He suffered serious injuries and was airlifted to Albany Medical Center in Albany, New York, where he was pronounced dead."

Williams' longtime manager, Barry McPherson, confirmed the actor's death. "I'm just devastated. He was a very nice guy. He was so talented," he told People magazine. He added: "Filmmakers loved him. He was the heart of Hollywood since the late 1970s."

Williams had been married to actress Pam Van Sant, 68, with whom he had two children, since 1988.

Williams' career

Williams had his breakthrough in Hollywood in 1979 when he starred as charismatic hippie George Berger in Milos Forman's musical adaptation "Hair." He was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Young Actor.

The stars of the musical adaptation "Hair" at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival: Don Dacus, Annie Golden, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, director Milos Forman and Cheryl Barnes (from left).

Steven Spielberg got him in front of the camera for the comedy "1941 - Which Way to Hollywood" (1979), and Sidney Lumet for the crime thriller "Prince of the City" (1981). Williams also starred alongside Robert De Niro in the gangster drama "Once Upon a Time in America" (1984), director Sergio Leone's last film. He had other roles in the action comedy "Miss Undercover 2 - Fabulous and Armed" (2005) and the survival drama "127 Hours" (2010).

Williams has appeared in many TV productions. From 2002 to 2006, he played a widowed doctor who moves with his children from New York to a small town in Colorado in the family series "Everwood." Netflix customers know him from the drama series "Chesapeake Shores," in which he embodied workaholic Mick O'Brien.