
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).
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Known For
Acting History
2026
Emperor as The Pope Clement VII
2024Babes as Bernie
2022The Bear as Uncle Jimmy 'Cicero' Kalinowski
2020I'm Thinking of Ending Things as The Voice (voice)
2018The Cleanse as Ken Roberts
2018The Bombing of Wall Street as Self - Narrator (voice)
2018The Gilded Age as Self - Narrator (voice)
2018Into the Amazon as Self - Narrator (voice)
2017Professor Marston and the Wonder Women as M.C. Gaines
2017The Great War as Self - Narrator (voice)
2017Rachel Carson as Self - Narrator (voice)
2016Rules Don't Apply as Forester
2016Shut In as Dr. Wilson
2016The Ticket as Bob
2016The 9th Life of Louis Drax as Dr. Perez
2016One More Time as Alan
2016The Perfect Crime: Leopold & Loeb as Self - Narrator (voice)
2015The Pilgrims as Self - Narrator (voice)
2015Chicago Med as Dr. Daniel Charles
2015American Comandante as Self - Narrator (voice)
2015Frank and Cindy as Frank Garcia
2015Bessie as Carl Van Vechten
2015The Big Burn as Self - Narrator (voice)
2015Klansville U.S.A. as Self - Narrator (voice)
2014Sofia the First: The Curse of Princess Ivy as Everburn (voice)
2014Sofia The First: The Curse Of Princess Ivy as Everburn (voice)
2014A Merry Friggin' Christmas as Hobo Santa
2014Kill the Messenger as Jerry Ceppos
2014Cut Bank as Joe Barrett
2014Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return as Wiser the Owl (voice)
2014Chef as Ramsey Michel
2014Fargo as Stavros Milos
20141964 as Narrator (voice)
2014Chicago P.D. as Dr. Daniel Charles
2013Gods Behaving Badly as Apollo
2013JFK as Narrator (voice)
2013JFK as Self - Narrator (voice)
2013Lucky Them as Giles
2013Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy as Self - Narrator (voice)
2013Love, Marilyn as Self
2013Henry Ford as Narrator (voice)
2013Sofia the First as Everburn (voice)
2012Armour of God 3: Chinese Zodiac as Lawrence Morgan
2012Ginger & Rosa as Mark Two
2012Chicago Fire as Dr. Daniel Charles
2011Jake and Amir: Fired as Interviewer
2011Prohibition as Reader / Al Capone (voice)
2011The Oranges as Terry Ostroff
2011X-Men: First Class as Man in Black Suit
2010Love & Other Drugs as Bruce Winston
2010The Big C as Paul Jamison
2010Letters to Juliet as New Yorker Magazine Editor Bobby (uncredited)
2010Please Give as Alex
20102012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic as Self
2010The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective as Self
20092012 as Carl Anheuser
2009Modern Family as Martin
2009The Good Wife as R.D.
2009Bored to Death as Richard Antrem
2009Year One as High Priest
2009Wonder Woman as Hades (voice)
2008Frost/Nixon as Bob Zelnick
2007Martian Child as Jeff
2007The Ten as Marc Jacobson
2007The Bronx Is Burning as George Steinbrenner
2007The Thick of It as Malcolm Tucker
2005Casanova as Paprizzio
2005The Ice Harvest as Pete Van Heuten
2005Loverboy as Mr. Pomeroy
2004Huff as Russell Tupper
2004Kinsey as Herman Wells
2003Pieces of April as Jim Burns
2003The Ellen DeGeneres Show as Self
2003Nip/Tuck as Freddy Prune
2003Hope Springs as Doug Reed
2003Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
2003Queens Supreme as Judge Jack Moran
2002Ash Wednesday as Moran
2002Zig Zag as Mr. Walters / 'The Toad'
2002Liberty Stands Still as Victor Wallace
2001Don't Say a Word as Dr. Louis Sachs
2000Deadline as Wallace Benton
2000Ready to Rumble as Jimmy King
2000Gun Shy as Fulvio Nesstra
1999Bicentennial Man as Rupert Burns
1999Three to Tango as Peter Steinberg
1999The West Wing as Oliver Babish
1999Lake Placid as Hector Cyr
1999CinderElmo as Frank / Fairy Godperson
1998The Impostors as Maurice
1998Simon Birch as Ben Goodrich
1998Doctor Dolittle as Dr. Mark Weller
1998Bulworth as Dennis Murphy
1998Dangerous Beauty as Maffio Venier
1996A Time to Kill as Harry Rex Vonner
1996Executive Decision as Cahill
1995Funny Bones as Tommy Fawkes
1995The Infiltrator as Yaron Svoray
1995Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure as Paul Bunyan
1993The Three Musketeers as Porthos
1993Benny & Joon as Eric
1993Indecent Proposal as Jeremy
1993The Temp as Jack Hartsell
1992Diggstown as Fitz
1992Beethoven as Harvey
1990Postcards from the Edge as Neil Bleene
1990Flatliners as Randy Steckle
1988Working Girl as Lutz
1988American Experience as Narrator (voice)
1988Married to the Mob as Ed Benitez
1988Crusoe as Mr. Newby
1987Wiseguy
1985The Equalizer as Norm Jameson
1984Miami Vice as Speed Stiles
1974NOVA as Narrator









