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Oliver Platt
Born: 12th Jan 1960 Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Dept: Acting
Oliver Platt (born January 12, 1960) is a Canadian-born American actor. He is known for his starring roles in many films such as Flatliners (1990), Beethoven (1992), Indecent Proposal, The Three Musketeers (both 1993), Executive Decision, A Time to Kill (both 1996), Dangerous Beauty, Bulworth, The Impostors, Dr. Dolittle (all 1998), Ready to Rumble, Gun Shy (both 2000), Don't Say a Word (2001), Zig Zag (2002), Pieces of April (2003), The Ice Harvest (2005), Martian Child (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), Year One, 2012 (both 2009), Please Give, Love & Other Drugs (both 2010), X-Men: First Class, The Oranges (both 2011), Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2013), Frank and Cindy and One More Time (both 2015).
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 114
Film: 89 (78%)
Television: 25 (22%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Science Fiction, Animation, Horror, TV Movie, Music, Talk, Action & Adventure, Kids, Western
Filmography
2024
After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and mother of two to guide her through gestation and be ... view
Character:
Bernie
Jun 2022 (first aired)
Carmy, a young fine-dining chef, comes home to Chicago to run his family sandwich shop. As he fights to transform the shop and himself, he works along ... view
Character:
Uncle Jimmy 'Cicero' Kalinowski (19 ep.)
2020
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm. ... view
Character:
The Voice (voice)
2018
The story of a heartbroken man who attends a spiritual retreat, only to discover that the course releases more than everyday toxins and traumatic expe ... view
Character:
Ken Roberts
2018
On September 16, 1920, as hundreds of Wall Street workers headed out for lunch, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in front of Morgan Ba ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
2018
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, the population of the United States doubled in the s ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
2018
A documentary re-telling of the remarkable and dangerous journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondo ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
2017
The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped invent the modern lie detector test and co-created Wo ... view
Character:
M.C. Gaines
2017
Drawing on unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, The Great War tells the rich and complex story of World War I through the voices of nurses, journ ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
2017
An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world. When 'Silent Spring' was published ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
2016
The unconventional love story of an aspiring actress, her ambitious driver, and their eccentric boss, the legendary billionaire Howard Hughes. ... view
Character:
Forester
2016
A widowed child psychologist lives in an isolated existence in rural New England. When caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue ... view
Character:
Dr. Wilson
2016
A blind man who regains his vision finds himself becoming metaphorically blinded by his obsession for the superficial. ... view
Character:
Bob
2016
A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of ... view
Character:
Dr. Perez
2016
Beautiful aspiring rock star Jude is stuck in a rut - relegated to recording commercial jingles and lost in a series of one night stands. When she is ... view
Character:
Alan
2016
The shocking story of Richard Leopold and Nathan Loeb, two wealthy college students who murdered a 14-year-old boy in 1924 to prove they were smart en ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
2015
Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journey west across the Atlantic in the early 17th cent ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
Nov 2015 (first aired)
An emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors who hold it together. T ... view
Character:
Dr. Daniel Charles (219 ep.)
2015
U.S. citizen William Morgan rises to power in Cuba during the Cuban Revolution. ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
2015
G.J. Echternkamp tells the story of his relationship with his parents, his mother Cindy and his step-father, Frank. Frank used to be a member of OXO, ... view
Character:
Frank Garcia
2015
The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s. ... view
Character:
Carl Van Vechten
2015
The dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910. ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
2015
Investigates the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the cou ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
2014
The revelation of a spellbinding secret sets in motion the most thrilling adventure in the history of SOFIA THE FIRST! After learning that the Amulet ... view
Character:
Everburn (voice)
2014
Princess Ivy has turned the whole kingdom of Enchancia black and white! It's up to Sofia and Amber to save the day. ... view
Character:
Everburn (voice)
2014
Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hi ... view
Character:
Hobo Santa
2014
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra reb ... view
Character:
Jerry Ceppos
2014
25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But hi ... view
Character:
Joe Barrett
2014
When Chef Carl Casper suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to compromise his creative integrity for its control ... view
Character:
Ramsey Michel
2014
Dorothy wakes in post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends, the Scarecrow, the Lion, the Tin Man, and Glinda, ... view
Character:
Wiser the Owl (voice)
Apr 2014 (first aired)
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota. ... view
Character:
Stavros Milos (5 ep.)
2014
1964 was the year the Beatles came to America, Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali, and three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi. It was t ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Jan 2014 (first aired)
A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their c ... view
Character:
Dr. Daniel Charles (6 ep.)
2013
Greek gods living in modern-day New York intervene in the lives of a young couple. ... view
Character:
Apollo
2013
Forever enshrined in myth by an assassin's bullet, Kennedy's presidency long defied objective appraisal. Recent assessments have revealed an administr ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Nov 2013 (first aired)
Forever enshrined in myth by an assassin's bullet, Kennedy's presidency long defied objective appraisal. Recent assessments have revealed an administr ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice) (2 ep.)
2013
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to ... view
Character:
Giles
2013
Revisits President John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy through 21 of the more than 800,000 condolence letters written to Jackie Kennedy after JFK's ... view
Character:
Self - Narrator (voice)
2013
Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote ... view
Character:
Self
2013
HENRY FORD paints a fascinating portrait of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century. ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice)
Jan 2013 (first aired)
Set in the storybook world of Enchancia, this is the story of Princess Sofia, an adventurous little girl who is learning how to adjust to royal life a ... view
Character:
Everburn (voice) (2 ep.)
Original title: 十二生肖
2012
Asian Hawk leads a mercenary team to recover several lost artifacts from the Old Summer Palace, the bronze heads of the twelve Chinese Zodiac animals ... view
Character:
Lawrence Morgan
2012
A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and th ... view
Character:
Mark Two
Oct 2012 (first aired)
An edge-of-your-seat view into the lives of everyday heroes committed to one of America's noblest professions. For the firefighters, rescue squad and ... view
Character:
Dr. Daniel Charles (9 ep.)
2011
When a new CEO arrives at CollegeHumour, he makes Jake an offer he can't refuse: fire Amir and get a promotion, but Jake soon realizes life without Am ... view
Character:
Interviewer
Oct 2011 (first aired)
The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the entire era it encompassed (1920-33). Afte ... view
Character:
Reader / Al Capone (voice) (3 ep.)
2011
A man's affair with his friend's much-younger daughter throws two neighboring families into turmoil. ... view
Character:
Terry Ostroff
2011
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. B ... view
Character:
Man in Black Suit
2010
Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly ... view
Character:
Bruce Winston
Aug 2010 (first aired)
A suburban mother faces her cancer diagnosis while trying to find humor and happiness as well. ... view
Character:
Paul Jamison (40 ep.)
2010
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona cour ... view
Character:
New Yorker Magazine Editor Bobby (uncredited)
2010
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns. ... view
Character:
Alex
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
Documentary, Action, Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction, Adventure
2010
This documentary features the 2012 film's cast and crew praising the work, vision, and style of the famed Disaster movie director (i.e. Roland Emmeric ... view
Character:
Self
2010
A short piece that looks at the 2012 film's ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the project. ... view
Character:
Self
2009
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns t ... view
Character:
Carl Anheuser
Sep 2009 (first aired)
The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, s ... view
Character:
Martin (2 ep.)
Sep 2009 (first aired)
Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corrup ... view
Character:
R.D. (3 ep.)
Sep 2009 (first aired)
Jonathan Ames, a young Brooklyn writer, is feeling lost. He's just gone through a painful break-up, thanks in part to his drinking, can't write his se ... view
Character:
Richard Antrem (3 ep.)
2009
When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world. ... view
Character:
High Priest
2009
On the mystical island of Themyscira, a proud and fierce warrior race of Amazons have raised a daughter of untold beauty, grace and strength: Princess ... view
Character:
Hades (voice)
2008
For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit ... view
Character:
Bob Zelnick
2007
A put-upon member of Congress is harassed by inept politicians. Based on the BBC series, "The Thick of It." ... view
Character:
Malcolm Tucker
2007
A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's ... view
Character:
Jeff
Character:
Marc Jacobson
Jul 2007 (first aired)
In the summer of 1977, New York was a city in crisis. Paralyzed by a citywide blackout, political strife, and the Son of Sam killing spree, the Big Ap ... view
Character:
George Steinbrenner (8 ep.)
2005
With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a notorious womanizer discovers a beauty who seems imp ... view
Character:
Paprizzio
2005
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have diff ... view
Character:
Pete Van Heuten
2005
A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much. ... view
Character:
Mr. Pomeroy
Nov 2004 (first aired)
Dr. Craig Huffstodt, a family man and a successful psychiatrist, gets a wake-up call after a tragedy occurs with one of his patients. ... view
Character:
Russell Tupper (26 ep.)
2004
Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a nation. What begins for Kinsey as a scientific endea ... view
Character:
Herman Wells
2003
Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But w ... view
Character:
Jim Burns
Sep 2003 (first aired)
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres. ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Jul 2003 (first aired)
Hotshot plastic surgeons Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy experience full-blown midlife crises as they confront career, family and romance pro ... view
Character:
Freddy Prune (4 ep.)
2003
British artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man. Distraught and despondent, he gets on a plane for America ... view
Character:
Doug Reed
Jan 2003 (first aired)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! is an American late-night talk show, created and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and broadcast on ABC. ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Jan 2003 (first aired)
Queens Supreme is an American courtroom dramedy television series which aired on CBS in January 2003. The series starred Oliver Platt in his first maj ... view
Character:
Judge Jack Moran (13 ep.)
2002
In early 1980s Manhattan, a pair of Irish-American brothers become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob. ... view
Character:
Moran
2002
An autistic 15-year-old boy steals money from his boss to provide rent for his abusive father, who uses the money to repay a loan shark. ... view
Character:
Mr. Walters / 'The Toad'
2002
As the heir and current marketing director for one of the nation's biggest gun manufacturers, Liberty Wallace is indifferent to the atrocities made po ... view
Character:
Victor Wallace
2001
When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he is horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a young woman, su ... view
Character:
Dr. Louis Sachs
Oct 2000 (first aired)
Deadline is a television series which was shown on NBC in the 2000–2001 season. It starred Oliver Platt as Wallace Benton, who worked for the fictio ... view
Character:
Wallace Benton (13 ep.)
2000
Two slacker wrestling fans are devastated by the ousting of their favorite character by an unscrupulous promoter. ... view
Character:
Jimmy King
2000
Legendary undercover DEA agent Charlie Mayough has suddenly lost his nerves of steel. On the verge of a career-induced mental breakdown, and in comple ... view
Character:
Fulvio Nesstra
1999
Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the ... view
Character:
Rupert Burns
1999
Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for the design of a cultural center. The tycoon mistake ... view
Character:
Peter Steinberg
Sep 1999 (first aired)
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential ... view
Character:
Oliver Babish (8 ep.)
1999
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix ... view
Character:
Hector Cyr
1999
Our favorite little red monster is the star of this delightful film that playfully skews the story of Cinderella. Originally aired on Fox television i ... view
Character:
Frank / Fairy Godperson
1998
Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find themselves pursued by the law aboard a cruise ship. ... view
Character:
Maurice
1998
Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his father, and his mother, Rebecca, is keeping her l ... view
Character:
Ben Goodrich
1998
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a chi ... view
Character:
Dr. Mark Weller
1998
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecti ... view
Character:
Dennis Murphy
1998
Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, cannot marry her because she is penniless and of que ... view
Character:
Maffio Venier
1996
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK. ... view
Character:
Harry Rex Vonner
1996
Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant suspects another ... view
Character:
Cahill
1995
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—s ... view
Character:
Tommy Fawkes
1995
In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pervasive underground Neo-Nazi faction intent on bri ... view
Character:
Yaron Svoray
1995
A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to ste ... view
Character:
Paul Bunyan
1993
D'Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to become a musketeer, one of the French king's elite bodyguards, only to discover that the corps has been disbande ... view
Character:
Porthos
1993
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton. ... view
Character:
Eric
1993
John Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife. ... view
Character:
Jeremy
1993
A series of mysterious accidents at a food company lead a manager to suspect his impressive new temporary secretary. ... view
Character:
Jack Hartsell
1992
Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns most of Diggstown, a boxing-mad town. The bet is t ... view
Character:
Fitz
1992
The Newton family live in their comfortable home, but there seems to something missing. This "hole" is filled by a small puppy, who walks into their h ... view
Character:
Harvey
1990
A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment. ... view
Character:
Neil Bleene
1990
Five medical students experiment with "near death" experiences, until the dark consequences of past tragedies begin to jeopardize their lives. ... view
Character:
Randy Steckle
1989
Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to lea ... view
Character:
Mr. Newby
1988
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job. ... view
Character:
Lutz
Oct 1988 (first aired)
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today. ... view
Character:
Narrator (voice) (12 ep.)
1988
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affa ... view
Character:
Ed Benitez
Sep 1987 (first aired)
Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United S ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1985 (first aired)
Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as ... view
Character:
Norm Jameson (1 ep.)
Sep 1984 (first aired)
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership o ... view
Character:
Speed Stiles (1 ep.)
Mar 1974 (first aired)
PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology ... view
Character:
Narrator (2 ep.)