“Everwood” actor Treat Williams has died at the age of 71, following his involvement in a motorcycle crash.

Williams’ agent Barry McPherson confirmed the tragic news to People Magazine on Monday, telling the outlet, “He was killed this afternoon. He was making a left or a right [and] a car cut him off. I’m just devastated. He was the nicest guy. He was so talented.”

Treat Williams, the star of Everwood and Hair, has died after being involved in a motorcycle accident. He was 71. The actor's death was confirmed to PEOPLE on Monday evening by his agent of 15 years, Barry McPherson. Read the full story: https://t.co/Jm5ixI2jIO pic.twitter.com/PpKa1rkNSq

— People (@people) June 13, 2023

“He was an actor’s actor. Filmmakers loved him. He’s been the heart of the Hollywood since the late 1970s. He was really proud of his performance this year,” McPherson continued. “He’s been so happy with the work that I got him. He’s had a balanced career.”

Williams has been appearing in movies and on television since the mid-1970s, beginning with 1975’s “Deadly Hero.” His turn as George Berger in the 1979 film version of the Broadway musical “Hair” earned him a Golden Globe nomination.

He also made recent appearances in several of Hallmark Channel’s holiday films — such as “The Christmas House” — as well as the network’s series “Chesapeake Shores.”

“So expressive (one of the great eyebrow actors of all time), so charismatic, so consistently good. RIP,” Rolling Stone’s chief television critic Alan Sepinwall said of Williams.

So expressive (one of the great eyebrow actors of all time), so charismatic, so consistently good. RIP https://t.co/VH8gNntkEw pic.twitter.com/Yy6BDoyxAn

— Alan Sepinwall (@sepinwall) June 13, 2023

“In the cesspool of twitter, you could just tell Treat Williams was a decent human being. And a reliably great actor to boot. Very sad to see this,” podcast host Josh Horowitz added.

“Treat Williams was such a vital, effervescent screen presence. Last summer, I really enjoyed revisiting HAIR, which he’s incredible in & the reason why that ending hits as hard as it does is because of Williams. This is a true loss. Condolences to those who knew & loved him. #RIP,” film critic Jen Johans tweeted. 

“Always a friend of genre cinema, Treat Williams was great in everything he did. From THE PHANTOM to DEAD HEAT, and the SUBSTITUTE sequels to my personal favorite, DEEP RISING, he was always a joy to watch. I’ll miss seeing him. RIP, good sir,” writer Ted Geoghegan said.

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— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) June 13, 2023

A columnist for USA Today compared Republican investigations into alleged misconduct by Hunter Biden to stigmatizing and abusing an addict.

The column opens with an emotional description of a teary intervention held by the Biden family to help their son Hunter, who at the time was addicted to crack cocaine – Hunter reportedly spent thousands of dollars on the drug in a matter of weeks and was discharged from the Navy after testing positive for cocaine in 2014.

“My son – like a lot of people, like a lot of people you know at home – had a drug problem,” then-candidate Biden said during the 2020 campaign. “He’s overtaken it, he’s fixed it, he’s worked on it. And I’m proud of him.”

“For most Americans addiction is a private family affair,” USA Today columnist Michael Collins opined. “Hunter Biden’s struggles have played out in public and in the political sphere inhabited by his father. Further complicating matters: Republicans have repeatedly sought to use the federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s private affairs, and at times even his drug addiction, as part of their campaign to portray the Biden family as corrupt.”

The column was published in the wake of revelations that a highly credible source had testified to the FBI that Hunter and Joe Biden were involved in an alleged international bribery scheme where they were each funneled millions of dollars through at least 20 shell companies. Of particular note was the allegation that $5 million was transferred to the Bidens from Ukrainian energy company Burisma, around the same time that then-Vice President Biden used his influence to get a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Burisma fired.

“‘You’re not getting the billion dollars,’” Biden said, recounting a threat he made to withhold U.S. aid if the Ukrainian government did not comply with his demand. “‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor’s not fired, you’re not getting the money.’… Well, son of a b****, he got fired.”

In a speech on the Senate floor today, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said that the continued investigation into the Biden family had uncovered evidence, recorded on a 1023 form provided by a confidential human source, that foreign nationals had compromising material on both Joe and Hunter Biden related to their alleged overseas dealings.

“The 1023 produced to that House committee redacted reference that the foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden allegedly has audio recordings of his conversation with them. Seventeen such recordings,” Grassley said.

The column characterized the investigations as political mudslinging, and, in the words of one recovering addict, “probably the most despicable thing I’ve seen in my life.”

“If some Republican’s child had these issues and a Democrat did the same thing, I’d say the same thing,” said Brandon Swinehart, a former addict who lived on the streets of San Francisco for two years. “This has nothing to do with competency or being president. This is someone’s family. It’s a family affair. Please stay out of it.”

The column focused on how Hunter Biden’s drug addiction has often been brought up by Republicans in conjunction with and as supporting evidence for allegations of corruption – and insinuated that such tactics were politically motivated smears. The column even included praise for Hunter Biden’s openness about his experience, noting that his public addiction and recovery could lessen the stigma surrounding a common social ill.

“There’s really no one who is immune to this,” said Alexis Pleus, whose son Jeff Dugon died of a heroin overdose. “It doesn’t matter – race, class, gender, what your income is, in the public eye, out of the public eye. Anyone can be affected. No one should be judged for this. Absolutely no one.”

Biden himself has reiterated such arguments.

“I’ll bet you there’s not a family you know that didn’t have somebody in the family who had a drug problem, or an alcohol problem,” the president said in an interview with CBS in early 2021.