Edward Platt

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1916-02-14 (58 years old)

Deathday

1974-03-19

Place of Birth

Staten Island, New York, USA

Edward Platt

Biography

Forever and fondly remembered as Don Adams' foil on the popular Mel Brooks/Buck Henry spy series Get Smart (1965), character actor Ed Platt (also billed as Edward C. Platt) had been around for two decades prior to copping that rare comedy role. Born in Staten Island, New York, on Valentine's Day, 1916, he inherited an appreciation of music on his mother's side. He spent a part of his childhood in Kentucky and in upstate New York where he attended Northwood, a private school in Lake Placid, and was a member of the ski jump team. He majored in romantic languages at Princeton University but left a year later to study at the Conservatory of Music...

Acting

1959

North by Northwest

as Victor Larrabee

1955

Rebel Without a Cause

as Ray Fremick

1962

Cape Fear

as Judge

1960

Pollyanna

as Ben Tarbell

1963

Black Zoo

as Chief Rivers

1957

Designing Woman

as Martin J. Daylor

1972

The Female Instinct

as Julius Nero

1961

Atlantis: The Lost Continent

as Azor the High Priest

1955

Cult of the Cobra

as Lamian Threatening Death (uncredited)

1958

Gunman's Walk

as Purcell Avery

1956

Backlash

as Sheriff J.C. Marson

1956

Storm Center

as Rev. Wilson

1957

House of Numbers

as The Warden

1955

Illegal

as Ralph Ford

1956

Written on the Wind

as Dr. Paul Cochrane

1956

The Steel Jungle

as Judge Wahller

1956

The Unguarded Moment

as Attorney Briggs (as Edward C. Platt)

1957

The Tattered Dress

as Ralph Adams, Reporter (as Edward C. Platt)

1959

Inside the Mafia

as Dan Regent

1958

Damn Citizen

as Joseph Kosta (as Edward C. Platt)

1959

The Rebel Set

as Mr. Tucker / Mr. T

1957

The Helen Morgan Story

as Johnny Haggerty

1964

1958

1956

Reprisal!

as Neil Shipley

1956

Rock, Pretty Baby

as Thomas Daley Sr.

1958

Summer Love

as Dr. Thomas Daley

1957

Omar Khayyam

as Jayhan

1955

The Shrike

as Harry Downs (as Edward C. Platt)

1956

The Great Man

as Dr. O'Conner (as Edward C. Platt)

1961

1963

A Ticklish Affair

as Captain Haven Hitchcock

1959

Destination Space

as Dr. Easton (as Edward C. Platt)

1960

Cash McCall

as Harrison Glenn

1949

I Was a Male War Bride

as Lieutenant in Gates' Office (uncredited)

1959

They Came to Cordura

as Col. DeRose

1956

Serenade

as Everett Carter

1957

Oregon Passage

as Roland Dane

1961

1956

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts

as Major Dunning - Psychiatrist

1965

Johnny Shiloh

as Gen. Thomas

1958

The Gift of Love

as Dr. Jim Miller

1955

Sincerely Yours

as Dr. Eubank (uncredited)

1961

1956

The Proud Ones

as Dr. Barlow

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