Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
January 12, 1960
Place of Birth:
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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Oliver 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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Babes | Bernie |
| 2020 | I'm Thinking of Ending Things | The Voice (voice) |
| 2018 | The Cleanse | Ken Roberts |
| 2018 | The Bombing of Wall Street | Narrator |
| 2018 | Into the Amazon | Narrator |
| 2018 | The Gilded Age | narrator |
| 2017 | Professor Marston and the Wonder Women | M.C. Gaines |
| 2017 | Rachel Carson | Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | The Great War | Narrator (voice) |
| 2016 | Rules Don't Apply | Forester |
| 2016 | One More Time | Alan |
| 2016 | The Ticket | Bob |
| 2016 | Shut In | Dr. Wilson |
| 2016 | The 9th Life of Louis Drax | Dr. Perez |
| 2016 | The Perfect Crime: Leopold & Loeb | Narrator |
| 2015 | The Pilgrims | Narrator |
| 2015 | Bessie | Carl Van Vechten |
| 2015 | Klansville U.S.A. | Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Frank and Cindy | Frank Garcia |
| 2015 | The Big Burn | Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | American Comandante | Narrator (Voice) |
| 2014 | Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return | Wiser the Owl (voice) |
| 2014 | Chef | Ramsey Michel |
| 2014 | A Merry Friggin' Christmas | Hobo Santa |
| 2014 | Kill the Messenger | Jerry Ceppos |
| 2014 | 1964 | Narrator (voice) |
| 2014 | Cut Bank | Joe Barrett |
| 2014 | Sofia the First: The Curse of Princess Ivy | Everburn (voice) |
| 2013 | Love, Marilyn | Self |
| 2013 | Lucky Them | Giles |
| 2013 | Gods Behaving Badly | Apollo |
| 2013 | Henry Ford | Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | JFK | Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy | Narrator (voice) |
| 2012 | Chinese Zodiac | Lawrence Morgan |
| 2012 | Ginger & Rosa | Mark Two |
| 2011 | X-Men: First Class | Man in Black Suit |
| 2011 | The Oranges | Terry Ostroff |
| 2010 | Please Give | Alex |
| 2010 | Love & Other Drugs | Bruce Winston |
| 2010 | 2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic | Self |
| 2010 | The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective | Self |
| 2010 | Letters to Juliet | New Yorker Magazine Editor Bobby (uncredited) |
| 2009 | 2012 | Carl Anheuser |
| 2009 | Wonder Woman | Hades (voice) |
| 2009 | Year One | High Priest |
| 2008 | Frost/Nixon | Bob Zelnick |
| 2007 | Martian Child | Jeff |
| 2007 | The Ten | Marc Jacobson |
| 2007 | The Thick Of It | Malcolm Tucker |
| 2005 | Casanova | Paprizzio |
| 2005 | Loverboy | M. Pomeroy |
| 2005 | The Ice Harvest | Pete Van Heuten |
| 2004 | Kinsey | Herman Wells |
| 2003 | Pieces of April | Jim Burns |
| 2003 | Hope Springs | Doug Reed |
| 2002 | Zig Zag | Mr. Walters / 'The Toad' |
| 2002 | Liberty Stands Still | Victor Wallace |
| 2002 | Ash Wednesday | Moran |
| 2001 | Don't Say a Word | Dr. Louis Sachs |
| 2000 | Ready to Rumble | Jimmy King |
| 2000 | Gun Shy | Fulvio Nesstra |
| 1999 | Bicentennial Man | Rupert Burns |
| 1999 | Three to Tango | Peter Steinberg |
| 1999 | Lake Placid | Hector Cyr |
| 1999 | CinderElmo | Frank / Fairy Godperson |
| 1998 | Doctor Dolittle | Dr. Mark Weller |
| 1998 | Simon Birch | Ben Goodrich |
| 1998 | Dangerous Beauty | Maffio Venier |
| 1998 | Bulworth | Dennis Murphy |
| 1998 | The Impostors | Maurice |
| 1996 | A Time to Kill | Harry Rex Vonner |
| 1996 | Executive Decision | Cahill |
| 1995 | Funny Bones | Tommy Fawkes |
| 1995 | Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure | Paul Bunyan |
| 1995 | The Infiltrator | Yaron Svoray |
| 1993 | The Three Musketeers | Porthos |
| 1993 | Benny & Joon | Eric |
| 1993 | Indecent Proposal | Jeremy |
| 1993 | The Temp | Jack Hartsell |
| 1992 | Diggstown | Fitz |
| 1992 | Beethoven | Harvey |
| 1990 | Flatliners | Randy Steckle |
| 1990 | Postcards from the Edge | Neil Bleene |
| 1988 | Married to the Mob | Ed Benitez |
| 1988 | Working Girl | Lutz |
| 1988 | Crusoe | Mr. Newby |
| Jake and Amir: Fired | Interviewer | |
| Charles V |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | The Bear | Uncle Jimmy 'Cicero' Kalinowski |
| 2015 | Chicago Med | Dr. Daniel Charles |
| 2014 | Chicago P.D. | Dr. Daniel Charles |
| 2014 | Fargo | Stavros Milos |
| 2013 | Sofia the First | Everburn (voice) |
| 2013 | JFK | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2012 | Chicago Fire | Dr. Daniel Charles |
| 2011 | Prohibition | Reader / Al Capone (voice) |
| 2010 | The Big C | Paul Jamison |
| 2009 | Modern Family | Martin |
| 2009 | The Good Wife | R.D. |
| 2009 | Bored to Death | Richard Antrem |
| 2007 | The Bronx Is Burning | George Steinbrenner |
| 2004 | Huff | Russell Tupper |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | |
| 2003 | Nip/Tuck | |
| 2003 | Queens Supreme | Judge Jack Moran |
| 2000 | Deadline | Wallace Benton |
| 1999 | The West Wing | Oliver Babish |
| 1988 | American Experience | Narrator (voice) |
| 1987 | Wiseguy | |
| 1985 | The Equalizer | Norm Jameson |
| 1984 | Miami Vice | Speed Stiles |
| 1974 | NOVA | Narrator |