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
Modern Family
2009
Chicago P.D.
2014
Chicago Fire
2012
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Chicago Med
2015
The West Wing
1999
The Good Wife
2009
Fargo
2014
Nip/Tuck
2003
NOVA
1974
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
American Experience
1988
Filmography
Modern Family
as Martin · 2009
Chicago P.D.
as Dr. Daniel Charles · 2014
Chicago Fire
as Dr. Daniel Charles · 2012
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self · 2003
Chicago Med
as Dr. Daniel Charles · 2015
The West Wing
as Oliver Babish · 1999
The Good Wife
as R.D. · 2009
Fargo
as Stavros Milos · 2014
Nip/Tuck
as Freddy Prune · 2003
NOVA
as Narrator · 1974
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self · 2003
American Experience
as Narrator (voice) · 1988
The Bear
as Uncle Jimmy 'Cicero' Kalinowski · 2022
Miami Vice
as Speed Stiles · 1984
Sofia the First
as Everburn (voice) · 2013
The Equalizer
as Norm Jameson · 1985
Wiseguy
· 1987
The Big C
as Paul Jamison · 2010
2012
as Carl Anheuser · 2009
Love & Other Drugs
as Bruce Winston · 2010
The Word
· 1990
Bored to Death
as Richard Antrem · 2009
A Time to Kill
as Harry Rex Vonner · 1996
Bicentennial Man
as Rupert Burns · 1999
Indecent Proposal
as Jeremy · 1993
Huff
as Russell Tupper · 2004
Letters to Juliet
as New Yorker Magazine Editor Bobby (uncredited) · 2010
Chef
as Ramsey Michel · 2014
Lake Placid
as Hector Cyr · 1999
Don't Say a Word
as Dr. Louis Sachs · 2001
Executive Decision
as Cahill · 1996
The Three Musketeers
as Porthos · 1993
Working Girl
as Lutz · 1988
The Bronx Is Burning
as George Steinbrenner · 2007
Chinese Zodiac
as Lawrence Morgan · 2012
Doctor Dolittle
as Dr. Mark Weller · 1998
Kill the Messenger
as Jerry Ceppos · 2014
Year One
as High Priest · 2009
Deadline
as Wallace Benton · 2000
Prohibition
as Reader / Al Capone (voice) · 2011
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
as Dr. Perez · 2016
Married to the Mob
as Ed Benitez · 1988
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
as The Voice (voice) · 2020
Queens Supreme
as Judge Jack Moran · 2003
Rules Don't Apply
as Forester · 2016
Frost/Nixon
as Bob Zelnick · 2008
Beethoven
as Harvey · 1992
Dangerous Beauty
as Maffio Venier · 1998
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
as M.C. Gaines · 2017
Benny & Joon
as Eric · 1993
Flatliners
as Randy Steckle · 1990
A Merry Friggin' Christmas
as Hobo Santa · 2014
Babes
as Bernie · 2024
Casanova
as Paprizzio · 2005
Wonder Woman
as Hades (voice) · 2009
Shut In
as Dr. Wilson · 2016
Kinsey
as Herman Wells · 2004
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
as Wiser the Owl (voice) · 2014
The Temp
as Jack Hartsell · 1993
Postcards from the Edge
as Neil Bleene · 1990
Three to Tango
as Peter Steinberg · 1999
The Ice Harvest
as Pete Van Heuten · 2005
Gun Shy
as Fulvio Nesstra · 2000
Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure
as Paul Bunyan · 1995
Ginger & Rosa
as Mark Two · 2012
The Oranges
as Terry Ostroff · 2011
Liberty Stands Still
as Victor Wallace · 2002
Diggstown
as Fitz · 1992
Martian Child
as Jeff · 2007
Cut Bank
as Joe Barrett · 2014
Loverboy
as Mr. Pomeroy · 2005
The Ten
as Marc Jacobson · 2007
Ready to Rumble
as Jimmy King · 2000
Simon Birch
as Ben Goodrich · 1998
Bulworth
as Dennis Murphy · 1998
Hope Springs
as Doug Reed · 2003
Love, Marilyn
as Self · 2013
Lucky Them
as Giles · 2013
The Cleanse
as Ken Roberts · 2018
Pieces of April
as Jim Burns · 2003
Ash Wednesday
as Moran · 2002
Funny Bones
as Tommy Fawkes · 1995
The Thick of It
as Malcolm Tucker · 2007
Please Give
as Alex · 2010
The Impostors
as Maurice · 1998
The Infiltrator
as Yaron Svoray · 1995
American Comandante
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2015
Zig Zag
as Mr. Walters / 'The Toad' · 2002
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2013
JFK
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2013
Sofia the First: The Curse of Princess Ivy
as Everburn (voice) · 2014
The Ticket
as Bob · 2016
The Great War
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2017
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
as Self · 2010
Bessie
as Carl Van Vechten · 2015
One More Time
as Alan · 2016
The Pilgrims
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2015
Jake and Amir: Fired
as Interviewer · 2011
Frank and Cindy
as Frank Garcia · 2015
Rachel Carson
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2017
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
as Self · 2010
Crusoe
as Mr. Newby · 1989
CinderElmo
as Frank / Fairy Godperson · 1999
Gods Behaving Badly
as Apollo · 2013
Klansville U.S.A.
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2015
The Perfect Crime: Leopold & Loeb
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2016
X-Men: First Class
as Man in Black Suit · 2011
Into the Amazon
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2018
JFK
as Narrator (voice) · 2013
The Gilded Age
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2018
Death and the Civil War
as Narrator · 2012
1964
as Narrator (voice) · 2014
The Bombing of Wall Street
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2018
The Big Burn
as Self - Narrator (voice) · 2015
Henry Ford
as Narrator (voice) · 2013