
Oliver Platt
Known for Acting · 116 credits
- Born
- 1960-01-12 (age 66)
- Place of birth
- Windsor, Ontario, Canada
- Also known as
- Oliver James Platt
Biography
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).
Known For
TV Shows (27)

Modern Family
2009
as Martin

Chicago Fire
2012
as Dr. Daniel Charles

Chicago P.D.
2014
as Dr. Daniel Charles

The Good Wife
2009
as R.D.

The Bear
2022
as Uncle Jimmy 'Cicero' Kalinowski

Chicago Med
2015
as Dr. Daniel Charles

The West Wing
1999
as Oliver Babish

NOVA
1974
as Narrator

Fargo
2014
as Stavros Milos

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
as Self

Nip/Tuck
2003
as Freddy Prune

American Experience
1988
as Narrator (voice)

Miami Vice
1984
as Speed Stiles

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
as Self

The Equalizer
1985
as Norm Jameson

Sofia the First
2013
as Everburn (voice)

Wiseguy
1987

The Big C
2010
as Paul Jamison

The Word
1990

Huff
2004
as Russell Tupper

The Bronx Is Burning
2007
as George Steinbrenner

Bored to Death
2009
as Richard Antrem

Deadline
2000
as Wallace Benton

Queens Supreme
2003
as Judge Jack Moran

Prohibition
2011
as Reader / Al Capone (voice)

The Great War
2017
as Self - Narrator (voice)

JFK
2013
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Movies (89)

2012
2009
as Carl Anheuser

Love & Other Drugs
2010
as Bruce Winston

Indecent Proposal
1993
as Jeremy

Doctor Dolittle
1998
as Dr. Mark Weller

Bicentennial Man
1999
as Rupert Burns

A Time to Kill
1996
as Harry Rex Vonner

Letters to Juliet
2010
as New Yorker Magazine Editor Bobby (uncredited)

Chef
2014
as Ramsey Michel

Chinese Zodiac
2012
as Lawrence Morgan

The Three Musketeers
1993
as Porthos

Babes
2024
as Bernie

I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2020
as The Voice (voice)

Lake Placid
1999
as Hector Cyr

Executive Decision
1996
as Cahill

Beethoven
1992
as Harvey

Casanova
2005
as Paprizzio

Working Girl
1988
as Lutz

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
2017
as M.C. Gaines

Flatliners
1990
as Randy Steckle

Year One
2009
as High Priest

Kill the Messenger
2014
as Jerry Ceppos

A Merry Friggin' Christmas
2014
as Hobo Santa

Married to the Mob
1988
as Ed Benitez

Don't Say a Word
2001
as Dr. Louis Sachs

Dangerous Beauty
1998
as Maffio Venier

Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
2014
as Wiser the Owl (voice)

Rules Don't Apply
2016
as Forester

Kinsey
2004
as Herman Wells

Cut Bank
2014
as Joe Barrett

Funny Bones
1995
as Tommy Fawkes

Frost/Nixon
2008
as Bob Zelnick

Benny & Joon
1993
as Eric

Rachel Carson
2017
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Gun Shy
2000
as Fulvio Nesstra

Postcards from the Edge
1990
as Neil Bleene

The Oranges
2011
as Terry Ostroff

Loverboy
2005
as Mr. Pomeroy

Shut In
2016
as Dr. Wilson

Bulworth
1998
as Dennis Murphy

Pieces of April
2003
as Jim Burns

Lucky Them
2013
as Giles

Ginger & Rosa
2012
as Mark Two

Hope Springs
2003
as Doug Reed

Simon Birch
1998
as Ben Goodrich

American Comandante
2015
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Liberty Stands Still
2002
as Victor Wallace

Martian Child
2007
as Jeff

Wonder Woman
2009
as Hades (voice)

Love, Marilyn
2013
as Self

Ready to Rumble
2000
as Jimmy King

The Infiltrator
1995
as Yaron Svoray

The 9th Life of Louis Drax
2016
as Dr. Perez

Three to Tango
1999
as Peter Steinberg

The Ice Harvest
2005
as Pete Van Heuten

Gods Behaving Badly
2013
as Apollo

Please Give
2010
as Alex

The Thick of It
2007
as Malcolm Tucker

The Ten
2007
as Marc Jacobson

The Temp
1993
as Jack Hartsell

Sofia the First: The Curse of Princess Ivy
2014
as Everburn (voice)

The Cleanse
2018
as Ken Roberts

The Ticket
2016
as Bob

Jake and Amir: Fired
2011
as Interviewer

Bessie
2015
as Carl Van Vechten

One More Time
2016
as Alan

The Impostors
1998
as Maurice

The Gilded Age
2018
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure
1995
as Paul Bunyan

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Diggstown
1992
as Fitz

Zig Zag
2002
as Mr. Walters / 'The Toad'

Frank and Cindy
2015
as Frank Garcia

The Great War
2017
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Ash Wednesday
2002
as Moran

The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010
as Self

JFK
2013
as Narrator (voice)

CinderElmo
1999
as Frank / Fairy Godperson

The Bombing of Wall Street
2018
as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Pilgrims
2015
as Self - Narrator (voice)

X-Men: First Class
2011
as Man in Black Suit

Crusoe
1989
as Mr. Newby

Into the Amazon
2018
as Self - Narrator (voice)

2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010
as Self

Klansville U.S.A.
2015
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Death and the Civil War
2012
as Narrator

The Big Burn
2015
as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Perfect Crime: Leopold & Loeb
2016
as Self - Narrator (voice)

1964
2014
as Narrator (voice)

Henry Ford
2013
as Narrator (voice)
About Oliver Platt
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… With 116 credits spanning from 1974 to 2024, Oliver Platt has appeared in 89 films and 27 TV shows.
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Most Popular Oliver Platt Movies
- 2012 (2009) — as Carl Anheuser
- Love & Other Drugs (2010) — as Bruce Winston
- Indecent Proposal (1993) — as Jeremy
- Doctor Dolittle (1998) — as Dr. Mark Weller
- Bicentennial Man (1999) — as Rupert Burns
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