Oliver Platt
Date of birth: 1960-01-12
Place of birth: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 올리버 플랫, 奧立佛·普雷特, الیور پلات, آلیور پلات
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).
Movie Credits
Flatliners
1990-08-10
Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their
Pieces of April
2003-10-17
Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment mil
A Time to Kill
1996-07-24
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug
Doctor Dolittle
1998-06-26
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, un
Bicentennial Man
1999-12-17
Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the
Three to Tango
1999-10-22
Oscar and Peter land a career-making opportunity when a Chicago tycoon chooses them to compete for t
The Three Musketeers
1993-11-11
D'Artagnan travels to Paris hoping to become a musketeer, one of the French king's elite bodyguards,
Married to the Mob
1988-08-19
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime wo
Executive Decision
1996-03-15
Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader
Working Girl
1988-12-20
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretend
Benny & Joon
1993-04-16
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton
Indecent Proposal
1993-04-07
John Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night
Kinsey
2004-09-04
Kinsey is a portrait of researcher Alfred Kinsey, driven to uncover the most private secrets of a na
Ready to Rumble
2000-04-07
Two slacker wrestling fans are devastated by the ousting of their favorite character by an unscrupul
Martian Child
2007-11-02
A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old
Simon Birch
1998-09-11
Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his
Hope Springs
2003-05-09
British artist Colin Ware discovers that his fiancée, Vera, is going to marry another man. Distraugh
Frost/Nixon
2008-10-15
For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steel
Dangerous Beauty
1998-02-20
Veronica is brilliant, gifted and beautiful, but the handsome aristocrat she loves, Marco Venier, ca
Don't Say a Word
2001-09-28
When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he is horrified to discover that the abductors' de
Bulworth
1998-05-15
A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportuni
Lake Placid
1999-07-15
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologi
Casanova
2005-12-25
With a reputation for seducing members of the opposite sex, regardless of their marital status, a no
The Impostors
1998-10-02
Wrongly accused of physically abusing a fellow actor, starving thespians Arthur and Maurice find the
Please Give
2010-04-30
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who liv
Funny Bones
1995-09-20
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns t
2012
2009-10-10
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of r
Gun Shy
2000-02-04
Legendary undercover DEA agent Charlie Mayough has suddenly lost his nerves of steel. On the verge o
Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure
1995-03-24
A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight a
CinderElmo
1999-01-01
Our favorite little red monster is the star of this delightful film that playfully skews the story o
Love & Other Drugs
2010-11-04
Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets h
Wonder Woman
2009-03-03
On the mystical island of Themyscira, a proud and fierce warrior race of Amazons have raised a daugh
The Temp
1993-02-12
A series of mysterious accidents at a food company lead a manager to suspect his impressive new temp
Year One
2009-06-18
When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an
The Pilgrims
2015-11-24
Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journ
X-Men: First Class
2011-06-01
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young
Diggstown
1992-08-14
Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man who owns
Loverboy
2005-01-24
A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of
Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return
2014-05-08
Dorothy wakes in post-tornado Kansas, only to be whisked back to Oz to try to save her old friends,
The Oranges
2011-09-09
A man's affair with his friend's much-younger daughter throws two neighboring families into turmoil.
Chinese Zodiac
2012-12-20
Asian Hawk leads a mercenary team to recover several lost artifacts from the Old Summer Palace, the
Love, Marilyn
2013-05-30
Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with parti
Ginger & Rosa
2012-10-18
A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960
The Infiltrator
1995-06-24
In the early 1990s, an Israeli freelance journalist travels to Germany and uncovers a dangerously pe
Lucky Them
2013-09-06
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ell
Chef
2014-05-08
When Chef Carl Casper suddenly quits his job at a prominent Los Angeles restaurant after refusing to
Gods Behaving Badly
2013-11-13
Greek gods living in modern-day New York intervene in the lives of a young couple.
Postcards from the Edge
1990-09-14
A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in w
Zig Zag
2002-06-14
An autistic 15-year-old boy steals money from his boss to provide rent for his abusive father, who u
Babes
2024-05-17
After getting pregnant from a one-night stand, a single woman leans on her married best friend and m
A Merry Friggin' Christmas
2014-11-07
Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizi
Rules Don't Apply
2016-11-23
It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract
The Ice Harvest
2005-11-23
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. Bu
Kill the Messenger
2014-10-09
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide af
The Cleanse
2018-05-04
The story of a heartbroken man who attends a spiritual retreat, only to discover that the course rel
One More Time
2016-04-08
Beautiful aspiring rock star Jude is stuck in a rut - relegated to recording commercial jingles and
Henry Ford
2013-01-29
HENRY FORD paints a fascinating portrait of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most in
The Ticket
2016-10-09
A blind man who regains his vision finds himself becoming metaphorically blinded by his obsession fo
Bessie
2015-05-16
The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.
Shut In
2016-11-11
A widowed child psychologist lives in an isolated existence in rural New England. When caught in a d
1964
2014-01-14
1964 was the year the Beatles came to America, Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali, and three civil rig
Liberty Stands Still
2002-01-18
As the heir and current marketing director for one of the nation's biggest gun manufacturers, Libert
Cut Bank
2014-10-04
25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut
JFK
2013-11-11
Forever enshrined in myth by an assassin's bullet, Kennedy's presidency long defied objective apprai
Beethoven
1992-04-03
The Newton family live in their comfortable home, but there seems to something missing. This "hole"
Klansville U.S.A.
2015-01-13
Investigates the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, becam
Frank and Cindy
2015-06-16
G.J. Echternkamp tells the story of his relationship with his parents, his mother Cindy and his step
The 9th Life of Louis Drax
2016-09-01
A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself
Ash Wednesday
2002-10-11
In early 1980s Manhattan, a pair of Irish-American brothers become embroiled in a conflict with the
The Ten
2007-08-03
Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.
Crusoe
1988-06-30
Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013-06-19
Revisits President John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy through 21 of the more than 800,000 condole
Sofia the First: The Curse of Princess Ivy
2014-11-23
The revelation of a spellbinding secret sets in motion the most thrilling adventure in the history o
The Thick Of It
2007-01-01
A put-upon member of Congress is harassed by inept politicians. Based on the BBC series, "The Thick
The Perfect Crime: Leopold & Loeb
2016-02-09
The shocking story of Richard Leopold and Nathan Loeb, two wealthy college students who murdered a 1
The Big Burn
2015-02-03
The dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
2017-10-13
The unconventional life of Dr. William Marston, the Harvard psychologist and inventor who helped inv
The Bombing of Wall Street
2018-02-13
On September 16, 1920, as hundreds of Wall Street workers headed out for lunch, a horse-drawn cart p
Into the Amazon
2018-01-09
A documentary re-telling of the remarkable and dangerous journey taken by President Theodore Rooseve
Rachel Carson
2017-01-24
An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the
American Comandante
2015-11-15
U.S. citizen William Morgan rises to power in Cuba during the Cuban Revolution.
The Gilded Age
2018-02-06
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, during what has become known as the Gilded Age, th
The Great War
2017-04-10
Drawing on unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, The Great War tells the rich and complex story
2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic
2010-03-02
This documentary features the 2012 film's cast and crew praising the work, vision, and style of the
The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective
2010-03-02
A short piece that looks at the 2012 film's ensemble cast and the strengths they brought to the proj
Letters to Juliet
2010-05-13
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2020-08-28
Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a r
Jake and Amir: Fired
2011-10-11
When a new CEO arrives at CollegeHumour, he makes Jake an offer he can't refuse: fire Amir and get a
Emperor
2026-07-03
XVI Century. Action epic about young Johanna "Of Ghent", who seeks revenge on the holy Roman Emperor